Originally Posted By: critter
Does anyone use Reaper?? I have been playing with it for a while now, does anyone out there use this?? If so let me know.

A number of people on the forum use Reaper, myself included.

As you're probably aware, it has a built-in pitch correction VST called ReaTune. If you select the "Correction" tab, you can choose "Automatic pitch correction" and pick a key (or pitches), and it'll automatically apply pitch correction.

There's also a "Manual Correction" mode, which has "Manual correction" and "Track pitch" options. If you choose "Track pitch", it'll show you what pitches you're actually singing, and you can draw line segments into the window on the notes you want to correct. I find this works much better for me.

You can find a video explaining it here.

You might have read about complaints on this forum that support for MIDI editing in Reaper was weak, but that's been corrected.

What you won't find in Reaper are a bunch of free loops, or free VST instruments. It'll support loops (ACID or not) VSTis and DXis, but it really doesn't come with any libraries of sounds like some other DAWS.

Did you have any particular questions about Reaper? Really, there's nothing particularly magical about one DAW or another. It's more a matter of finding something that fits your workflow. I happen to really like Reaper, but I can see why others are passionate about the DAWs they use. And hopefully, you can resolve the issue you've got with Mixcraft.

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?