Thanks Dan, i really didn't expect much from the reaper crowd. I know some of them like yourself are great dudes. There has been and always will be the drooling nut jobs that sleep in Reaper PJs and eat Reaper cereal for breakfast. I really didn't ask which is better, i ask for some comparisons between them, for those who had experience on both. One of the things i have always been turn off about Reaper is the mentality of hard core users to jump on every forum board known to man and sing the praises of Reaper even when the discussion is not related to Reaper. Perfect example, I use to be on the cakewalk forums back in the day. Someone could ask something like "how do you change the color of your tracks?" and a reaperite would respond In "Reaper you do this, and it will butter your toast as well!!!!" Aaahhhh!!!!! So I am trying to be open minded and ignore that and use Reaper as it was intended a DAW, not to save the whales and bring about world peace! Although i hear they perfected the "Grammy winning plugin"

Jim, the issue is and was i subscribed to SD1 6 sphere and decided not to continue with that as i really don't need all the other things. I never use them. I went back to SD1 5 and they have no record of my purchase and bounced me back to version 4. I looked around a bit for proof but after a while it was just wasting time. I got an email for Mixbus over the weekend a couple weeks back and it was on sale for $99 for the top version (normally $349), i thought what the heck i'll try it. I do really like it as my needs are not fancy. Then i had a couple issues up front with it (learning curve) and had a project to finish, SO i fired up the old reaper demo and it did a very smooth job of the project. So heck i bought it too $60

Yeah i know for $160 i could have bought SD1 6! Yep, but i found out i like simple. While Reaper routing is not simple the overall program is, and the upgrade path is a lot cheaper. Guess what i found a hidden gem or "Jim" if you like in it. The video capability it very good.

As far as mixbus. It is a very cool program in it's own rights. The ability to mix with build in FX on every track is pretty nice and the end results are very solid. No fiddling with extra plugins, except maybe reverb. Just use the comp, EQ and such in the channel strips and master bus and you are good to go.

So for $160 I got two programs, one with pretty cool video and a flexible and powerful features and another one with a very strong and rich mix down approach.

Last edited by Rob Helms; 07/19/23 03:50 AM.
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