I get the feeling you don't really know Reaper that well. Many of the differences you point out are not really differences. Reaper has drag and drop as well. In Reaper a track is a track. You can have midi, wav files, even video files all on the same track if you so desire. And it's endlessly customizable. I used Studio One for several years, but then migrated to Reaper. Reaper is far, far more customizable and powerful. It's just that the learning curve is a little higher.
ive been using studio one for a couple years now. been using reaper for a few days. i can tell this guy hasn't used reaper and hes kind of a fan boy who likes shiny pretty things rather then functional boring looking tools.
@@jamesrocks300mf Did a video on how to make buses and aux sends and didn't even do it the right way. Takes literally 5 seconds in reaper, OK not as fast as mixcraft but mixcraft is designed to be the simplest daw but reaper is very easy to do the main stuff in. Combined with the Kenny gioja videos its simple
he said reaper was customizable 😒🤨😔 but its cluncky. reaper have the options but they just throw it in their no love to it. that is why they charge what they charge for the daw
StudioOne looks better, way better absolutely. Reaper has drag and drop routing too. Reaper also has last touch modulation, or automation. You can layer instruments in Reaper too in fact You can plug a guitar into Reaper, using Reatune as an insert effect, and use you're guitar as a midi instrument to control a VSTi. You can also edit videos in Reaper. You can basically do everything in Reaper, efficiently. You can have midi and audio on the same track at the same time in Reaper. Studio One doesn't have built in spectral editing in the timeline like Reaper does. Also Reapers stock plugins, while looking uglier, are actually in fact way more powerful then StudioOnes, like they're unlimited band multi band compressor, unlimited band parametric eq, unlimited multi tap delay, unlimited Impulse Response loader/synthesizer. Reaper even comes with a plugin that lets you create your own plugins lol.
Thanks for sharing, Vincent! I’m sure Reaper is capable of all of these things. I might even have overlooked some of its capabilities here and there (Reaper keeps surprising me 😉). But overall my end conclusion is still gonna be the same. Reaper is amazing, and definitely has some strong selling points, but in my opinion Studio One, in many ways, simply has a more advanced, and more intuitive interface. But again that's just my opinion.
"Reaper even comes with a plugin that lets you create your own plugins lol." That tickled me, what's next? Reaper even cooks ya dinner & irons your clothes! :D
"Reaper keeps surprising me, But overall my end conclusion is still gonna be the same." Snake Eat Tail much? Mmm-kay, kool tymze brah.
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it sounds like the old discussion between Mac users and Linux users, Linux is much more powerful and offer much more tweaking, if you want to spend the time to do it, while Mac offers what you need in much easier way, at the end it comes to how much time you want to tweak things vs how much time you want to use and enjoy them
3 Times Studio One has locked me out of my project, twice it was a client project. I had to go and disable all third party plugins and bounce my stems out and remix them in Reaper. Studio one is beautiful,but it has a mind of it's own sometimes. Reaper is solid,hardly ever crashes.
Partially agreed with all of you said but you have to know better Reaper. In Reaper you can create a track with a simple double click in the column or in a mixer empty area. Even in Reaper you can drag and drop any FX from the FX window to a specific track. To create a send, for example, you can doble click (as I mentioned before) creating a track, chose an FX to be sent and then drag from the track you want to send the FX to holding left button of the mouse in the route area. Hard to explain but really easy and fast to do. You can chose an instrument and open a track on the fly with a shortcut. Reaper has a long learning curve at first but when you get there you wont come back, trust me, workflow is not an issue in Reaper, it's just different and, btw, there's a manual.
Hello Christian, Thank you for your comment, it contains some very useful information that some people may benefit from. 👍🏻 I have to say though that for me it contains nothing new. I know that it's possible to create a track by double-clicking, I know that it's possible to drag and drop fx onto a track and I also know about the drag and drop option to create a send. But even with all of that in mind, and even though I certainly agree with you that Reaper is an amazing piece of software, in my opinion, Studio One simply has a more advanced and more intuitive interface. Anyway, I do appreciate your involvement so thanks again and happy music making 😉
@@SupercyMusic see, the problem is not what you think about Reaper, which I respect totally, but if you do a workflow video comparison, is not fair to show shortcuts of one and "the long way" of the other in order to make a point that, I'm pretty sure, you have for others solid reasons then "open a track" or "adding an FX". I came from Cubase and I think that Reaper has yet something missing with the MIDI editor compares to Steinberg software, but the fact that I have to pay (not that cheap at time) for the newest release not having retro compatibility with my old projects, forcing me to open an old software, no more followed by its developers, that obviously can crash in a new system/enviroment, made me flee from Cubase. Like I said: I'm partially agreed with you, for example: virtual instrument and libraries are important in order to make music today and that is something missing in Reaper, but there's a lot of free/cheap good software out there, so not that much of a problem to a good "music maker"; that's probably why you recommend Reaper to a musician in a budget or "in the begining" anyway. Good videos my friend, I liked the montage, really fuent. I'm happy to be partially disagreed with an intelligent and capable one.
Even though I don't completely agree with everything you said, you definitely make some interesting points! Keeps me on my toes and it might give some people (including myself) some new insights, so again thanks! And also thanks for the compliment 😉
It was worth watching. Especially right before 11th minute when you mentioned Studio One Prime not allowing third party plugins. A huge limitation. You just saved me a few hours of testing. Thanks.
Prime is the free version without 3rd party VST support. The latest version i.e Studio One 5 (since July 2020) now accepts 3rd party VST plug-ins as part of standard features of the Artist version - eliminating one of the biggest shortcomings of the previous version 4 - where it was at additional cost. Artist costs $99 and $69 now with black friday discount.
Well, at the moment I’m migrating from S1pro to Reaper. There was a learning curve, you have to be a nerd in some respect. Initially for me Reaper vs S1 mostly was a battle of custom macros/actions. And Reaper won just flawlessly. For example, if you are in S1 there’s no way to make a button or key command to add an instrument to the artangement. But you can do it in Reaper at the drop of a hat. And then I have realized that with Studio one wich i know deep enough I was learning how to work with it, but with Reaper I am teaching it how to work with me. And that is something that no other daw has to offer.
This is exactly why I love reaper. You teach it what to do. Reaper doesn't control you and tell you this is the way it must be done.... No, reaper allows you to tell it, this is how I want it done and reaper follows your lead. You are.l completely in charge not the other way!. I migrated from FL Studio after I got frustrated of the channel rack and having to manually route every track to a mixer channel every time. I was still trying to adapt to it till I got audio recording, then I gave up and was searching everywhere for a DAW I can control, not the one that will be controlling me like FL studio, then I came across reaper and everything changed. It is such a delight to use Reaper. I even have it customized to look like I am working in Logic Pro x. That is how flexible Reaper is.
@@EasyyokeFilms hey fellow reaper user........ I made an orchestral beat using reaper...... Even the beat video was done in reaper......can you give a feedback on that??❤️
You nailed it with the words "you have be a nerd in some respect". I am sure, that Reaper is powerful like hell, but I am still too old to learn a complete new DAW.
I do agree with your statement, but it does depend on your capabilities and preferences. If you're a guitarist, or bassist, or a drummer, or just play a harmonica all the time, I can bet you would prefer Studio One. That was my attempt to be humorous btw... :)
Anything you can do in Studio One you can do in Reaper. (and more) There are dozens of free (or priced) instrument plug-ins that can be added to Reaper. You can record multiple instruments on the same track. If your recording workflow involves the same series of steps multiple times, you can create a sequence for those steps and assign a single key to perform it. One has to decide if SO is worth seven times the price. Also, Reaper is updated one or two times a month - with added features and/or bug fixes. I paid my $60.00 two years ago and am still getting free upgrades.
Thank you for your contribution! 👍 In my opinion (out of the box) Studio One offers a more user-friendly and a bit more sophisticated interface than Reaper does. But I do agree with you, it comes with a bigger price tag. And, in the end, there really isn't that much you cannot do with Reaper. It's all about preferences / making choices 😉
@@SupercyMusic Yes, the main difference is in user-friendliness. The main difference. But ultimately, Reaper is a bit more capable. You get sooo much for little money. Plus a headache sometimes. lol
@@SupercyMusic user friendly is the key difference. and by golly. making music with a computer is just as much about utilising mental resources as efficiently as possible as utilising the tools available to you.
Nice honest review. I would argue that the effects in Reaper including all of my other plugins from previous DAW softwares like Cakewalk Music Creator and my T-Racks 5 Mastering suite can be dragged and dropped from the effects menu easily. You can even just clone an effect from one track to another using drop and drag. This is good for me because I often have 8-10 vocal tracks (lots of harmony) so when I set up an effect on one vocal track (EQ, reverb, compressor etc.) I can just drag that effect to all of other vocal tracks and the same parameters are maintained so I don't have to reset each effect if I want the same parameters. This was good in depth review. Well done. I'm sticking with Reaper.
You can do exactly the same in Studio One. But if course you should stick with Reaper if it does what you need the way you want it. To my taste Reaper is just overly complicated in layout and functions, not intuitive at all. But neither is ProTools and I used that for 18 years.
@@Rickholly74 I was just gonna ask, what's the easiest way to setup Reaper for an easy vocal recording + comping workflow? I find it's kind of not super intuitive and a little frustrating to work with their vocal editing functions.
ermonski Lmao I was about to mention that. Audacity is okay (decent), but wasn’t really meant to be a music recording type of DAW, but you can record in it but don’t expect for it to be good as Mixcraft etc......
@@reekrodriqguez6552 Hell no. Any other DAW is a million times more powerful than Audacity. But for home use, demos, and learning how audio tracks work, Audacity is pretty powerful.
I have to agree. Changed from reaper to studio one a year ago and now the workflow dramatically increased and I can really concentrate on making music. But I am missing the capability of midi plugins and a better cpu load. For me it was my most important decision in making music.
This has been a great comparison, I liked it a lot, I know that many would think some DAWs sound better than another, but really at the sound level between DAW there are no differences, in this era I do not think there are those myths where they say that protools sounds Better, o all DAWs sounds better that fl studio because exports a poor signal, and I don't think so, apart from the fact that I have tried many DAWs, everything is definitely in the comfort that the producer feels, as they say a lot in my country "is not the arrow, is the Indian "
Indeed. I tested Reaper, ProTools, Studio One and Audacity. I made a simple short multotrack song using the same 3rd party plugins in all 4, exported the mix, then imported into one of the DAWs. Then I did the null test, which is basically that you play 2 files and flip the polarity of one of them. If the result is silence the files are identical. There was silence in all combinations. So ProTools sounds the same as Audacity.
@@musician1971a That's really good to know, because I've been using Adobe Audition which I like, but I am being pressured into switching because its not considered the Standard.... I Don't need it for midi, I just use it to mix songs. I just don't know if its lacking in any way upon Export, that's my only concern... Are u familiar with Adobe Audition?
@@andor3442 I really don't understand why you should switch. If Audition gives you the desired results and you like working with it that's all that matters. I used it once or twice and it doesn't "click" with me but it has everything you need to make good mixes. The one reason you would need to switch is for collaboration, or you work in a studio where they use certain software. Other than that, use what you like best. As I stated, they all sound the same basically. People may start on differences in pan laws but that's a non issue as one would take that into account while mixing.
@@musician1971a Any chance u could do a search on Audition & see if its lacking in any functionality that may be causing it to not give a "PRO TOOLS/LOGIC" sound? I need to be precise before I switch DAWs... My brother & I argue about the end result of the mixes because he feels there's just something about the program that doesn't make the Final mix sound complete... He wants me to convert to Logic as thats the program he uses, but I don't hear much of a difference in quality... He's an artist & I mix for him here & there, but I really prefer to stick to Audition. Collaboration may be the only downside as u stated, but even then its just a matter of exporting the files as Stems if anything needs to be transferred... I need to figure out whether or not its just ME or the DAW itself.
@@andor3442 that's really asking too much. There are so many possible features in any software and they may name them differently or have implemented something in a different way. All DAWs are lacking in certain areas and will excel in other areas. A difference your brother hears can only come from a difference in mixing approach, not from the software that was used. Especially if it's just audio it doesn't make a difference, no matter what some people may want you to believe. Some just keep going on about audio engines having a big impact on the sound of a DAW while that is utter nonsense as they all do a perfectly good job at exactly outputting the zeros and ones that this audio is made of. It's the simplest part of the whole program! No, ProTools does not sound better than Audition or even Audacity, it's what the user does that makes the difference. If you don't mis any features in Audition while mixing then Audition is not inferior to ProTools, Reaper, Logic, Studio One, Cubase or any other DAW. The only thing that MAY cause a difference is when you exclusively use stock plug-ins. The ones in Logic may be better for some reason but I wouldn't be able to determine that as I don't use a Mac. Eq's and compressors can certainly make a difference. But that's easily remedied by using third party plug-ins. And there are even some very good cheap and free ones
Reaper is cheap, fast, stable, and just work flawlessly. Dont need fancy looking things to make music. You are Wrong about the Effetcts plugin. Reaper has 100's of effect plugins included ! ( REa... and JS plugs ) .. and sound as good as waves, and so ! ... for the instruments, you are right. But i dont wanna pay for plugins i dont need.
Thanks for your comment! When it comes to choosing a DAW many people aren't sure about what it is that they need. It seems like you know exactly what you need so congratulations! 👍🏻 And if what you need is Reaper, then stick with that! Anyway, happy music making! 😉
Studio One is all those things you just mentioned, except for the cheap part, although Reaper comes with almost nothing, so you can't compare prices between the two. I have never ever had a problem with S1, and i mix/master daily. Also, all the plugins in S1 are great for mixing/mastering. It looks like you're a bit of a Reaper fanboy, because most of what you wrote just doesn't add up. PS: i forgot to mention that i use both Reaper and S1, i was a long time Pro Tools user until i discovered S1
@SunTai on a 7 year old PC I can run S1 4 flawlessly, big projects, lots of heavy plugins and the CPU meter does not go over the half mark. I can´t even imagine the performance if I upgrade to a modern 2020 PC.
Bruh, I really appreciate your thorough and very honest assessment and comparison of these two DAWs. I really wanted to learn Reaper, but I just don't have the time or patience. Also, to totally re-program my brain of doing things the hard way doesn't make any sense to me at all right now. I own Logic X, Studio One v4, and the Eval version of Reaper. If I'm honest, in terms of fast work flow, Studio One v4 pro is the best, then Logic X Pro ( excellent midi integration in most cases) , and Reaper is third, only because I never took the time to master it.... too darn much to learn and the user interfaces look stale and decrepit, like you implied.
I had just changed from Reaper to Studio One Artist and I am glad I did. So easy to use with my Komplete Kontrol S49 and Mk3 combined. The controls are recognized right away and work like a charm. So easy to use and record with.
I think you are right that studio one is actually far more intuitive than reaper. Still I think that you've overlooked some advanced reaper features that are on the same level as in studio one, such as regions and region based editing and rearranging, also every track is basically an up to 64 channel mixer, able to route plugins and stuff. Not as visual as S1 not as intuitive but in my opinion much more powerful. Also the fact that you can drag and drop routing too. One of the major drawbacks of S1 for me is moving across the session as there's no horizontal zoom modifier and that is not editable. Still some of the best things in S1 for me is routing, it just makes a bit more sense. Grouping, as you can group sends and the chord track for producers/composers. But still for me those are not major factors to decide to change, as much as I acknowledge that it's a very well thought-out software. And I still think you should explore some more about both of them in order to do a fair comparison.
Thank you for your obviously well informed and very fair comment! One thing I learned while making this video is that it is very difficult making an objective comparison between (any) two different DAWs. The conclusion very heavily depends on whatever you're focused on. What I tried to do is as little as possible focus on my personal way of working, but it's virtually inevitable that you're gonna be at least a bit bias. Anyway, I still stand by my main conclusion (which you kinda also mentioned) that Studio One is more intuitive and (in my opinion) a bit more sophisticated than Reaper. But thanks again for you comment ... keeps me on my toes 😊
I agree. That was my first thought when looking at Reaper. It feels like an old DOS program, or like Band In A Box, which is very hard to find things in because everything looks the same, and is hidden in lists where there is no distinction between tools and commands, stuff like that. Menus are a chore to look through for that reason - you have to scan over every item, instead of look for something that stands out or that fits what you might be looking for. Then there's the new language to learn - most things are under new names, so you have no idea what to look for when looking for tools you're used to using in other DAWS. I remember years ago, when I gave up on learning Samplitude for that very reason. I was having to start over learning from scratch, because the terminology was all changed so you had no idea what anything was. They had their own terms for all the tools you were used to under other names, so it was too slow going.
@@alexanderstuartpetty485 It's pretty good if you don't use much MIDI, and don't need many MIDI channels in 1 VST, like Kontakt, for instance. Otherwise it's a "work-around" program.
@@jameseverett4976 ok great. Do you know a way to get 16 channels in 1 instance of Kontakt, like very other DAW can, and if so, can you show me how? I would so much love to be wrong. I wasted a shit load of time trying to find a solution to this, and watched every video that claims to know how, but it was always the same work-around, using multiple instances, and you can't actually do it. I'd even be willing to pay you a small fee, like $30. I really want to switch, but I use Kontakt too much, and dealing with a new instance on every track just defeats the purpose.
I still find Reaper more inspiring for me to make music than Studio 1...I own both and like both...But Reaper has SWS extensions and so much more input from the Reaper community and seems more flexible than other DAWS...I like studio 1 for mixing. great sounding engine
Reaper user here. I love Reaper and will likely stick with it, but thinking of experimenting with Studio One and/or Cubase! Your video was honest and unbiased. I really love your approach at sharing this information :)
Thanks! If Reaper meets all your needs then I would advise you to stick with it (as you already decided to do). But of course, there's no harm in experimenting with other DAW's 👍🏻
I love Studio One, but I have to use Reaper too. You can synchronize two computers with Reaper to split resources, via MIDI clock or Timecode. I love doing this because it makes plugin and processing limitations way more minimal. Not to mention this plays well with hardware. Ableton Live and BitWig are Ableton Link compatible- so you can sync via WIFI. Synchronization with Studio One via two computers is a damn nightmare. That said, mixing (and mostly everything else) in Studio One is a dream. I wish they would have kept MIDI.
Really informative video, thanks. I just bought a Scarlett Solo 3rd gen. Still figuring it out. But I have Reaper, Audacity, Kristol, Ableton Lite, etc... trying to figure out what is going to work best for me. It's a process!
I have and use both Studio One and Reaper. Nothing beats Reaper for value. Best daw for the buck. That said, Studio One has an overall feature set that for me is easier to use and fits my workflow better than Reaper.
In fact, I was with the Pro Tools, after that with the Cubes, and finally I found the studio one of the best among them. and tried to try Reaper, but I had difficulty in the midi, especially I am a music distributor for oriental music Reapers quantise Edit doesn’t have Groove which I can play like Arabic beats I mean I can make my own quantise in studio one very fast just make it and drag it and save it in my preset quantise as you know there’s complex beat in middle east . I think studio one is the fastest, the best, it makes me more confident in my job.
Presonus Studio 1 Artist is currently v6 and now allows 3rd party instruments and effects (VST2, VST3, AU) for no additional cost. I'm a long time Reaper user, but I've played a little with S1 and agree with your summary.
In reaper, when you drag'n drop a virtual instrument (vsti in windows) in the track panel, it creates a new track too. But yes it doesn't work with effects plugins.
You should never have to apologise for expressing an opinion on a product. If people take offence over stuff like that, they are the ones with the problem, not you. Nice review.
@Alantis Lad thank you for your comment I've noticed you've made several comments to this video. Of course, you're entitled to your opinion and you have every right to disagree with me about this video. However, you say that you've used both DAWs extensively, but in one of your comments, you've made an incorrect statement about Studio One. And you say you disagree with me, but in one of your comments, you provide a lot of evidence that you actually support my main conclusion, which is that (IMO) Studio One is more visually pleasing, more intuitive, more user-friendly and basically has a more sophisticated interface than Reaper. So I'm a bit confused here. You keep contradicting yourself. And I personally think so far you haven't given any very convincing arguments about why you actually disagree with me, in fact, as mentioned, you've given stronger arguments to actually agree with me. But anyway, if you say that this video is misleading, I totally disagree with you.
Excellent review. I think you are fair and balanced. I work with power engineering software and for that I prefer a flexible and customisable platform because I have a deep knowledge of it know it well and can make it do what I want it to do. For DAW I’ve forced myself to learn Logic. It’s fine but MAC computers are now overpriced and so I want to move to Windows. The cost is not a problem and I need to upgrade my audio interface anyway thanks to Apple. I want something without a learning curve as for music my priority is speed and ease of use. I will therefore get Studio 1. If I had the time to commit would select Reaper, it sounds amazing for a free DAW and it’s users clearly love it as you can tell by their tribal defence of any hint of criticism.
Thank you! I've learned that it's not very easy to make a comparison between 2 different DAWs; different people are gonna focus on different things. But I've tried to be as unbiased as possible. And yes, I've also learned that the Reaper community is very passionate about their DAW. 😄 I've actually had the same problem with Apple. I had been a long time Logic user, but because of their prices I was kinda forced to go with Windows. I kinda took a chance with S1 (wasn't really familiar with it back then). (as far as I know) The perfect DAW doesn't exist, but I've been pretty content with S1 so far.
After much research, consideration, listing to videos like this and reading the comments, I've decided that I'll just use both Reaper and Studio One. I have a dedicated focus for each DAW. Reaper will suit my needs for fast production at high volume with little required processing, and with custom menus and commands for speedy projects. S1 for songwriting, mixing big projects and mastering. Plus S1 is supported by my Slate Raven core station. My Intel i9 64GB 6TB SSD pc should handle whatever projects I throw at it. Former Reason and Cakewalk user.
I just loaded 1 x Diva with 2 other channels (Vocals and 1 Piano vst) in Studio One and it crashed after I touched the presets... Meanwhile, in Reaper I loaded 3 x Diva while playing them on my Midi keyboard in realtime with not even a single audio dropout... Should I switch to reaper already? Or am I missing something here? I have an 3,6 ghz 8 core processor with 32 gig ram.
Literally my same story. After hours of troubleshooting, which included a Personus tech support at one point, I just gave up and got a refund. Studio One looks great though. Haha
I can't stand the dark themes that most daws use. I really liked the original theme of Studio One V.1. I use a light grey Logic theme with Reaper. My main reason for using Reaper is it will run on almost anything and almost never crash.
On the plus side, you can change the color and brightness Studio One, and apparently as of V4, you can pretty much go full light mode by dragging the luminance all the way up. Example: ruclips.net/video/HzJw1CLzN_0/видео.html
Studio One is pretty customizable and as "Live the truth" mentioned, you can definitely change the color of the interface. And I agree, one very strong point for reaper is that it isn't very demanding for your computer. 😉
@@SupercyMusic Ha! I couldn't remotely describe Studio One as customizable, particularly when debating in regard to Reaper. It has a similar level of cusomizability as Ableton - which is hardly any thing at all. Admittedly, Studio one does have customizable key commands (the interface of which they stole directly from Cubase) but other than that and a little bit of colour changing - you really have to work with the way Presonus designed it....
Although it seems that there is a main problem with Studio one: if you want to use plugins; you need the most expensive version; with free and artist version (200 dollars?) you can't load VSTs; at least from what their web page says. At that point you are in the realm of Logic...which has a ton of VST included too
Of course, that's always gonna be a matter of opinion and if you feel more comfortable with Reaper's interface then obviously Reaper is the DAW for you 👍🏻
@@SupercyMusic He was just implying that we should pay more attention to workflow and sound, which is ultimately important for musicians. Not looks. And I agree 100%. I've seen so many plugins that look like hardware and sound like shit. Trust me, I know what hardware sounds like. People get carried away with nice looks. Kinda like with beautiful women - you use her once, and then you start to wonder about the brains, which is usually very hard to find. Then you move on. Same with beautiful looking software/plugins.
For everyone who likes to stick with the configuration of the DAW and dont want to customize a little bit more then the manufacturers allow to do ...go with Studio One (which was my last main Daw and its great) or all the other DAWs out there but Reaper is on another level. You do need time but its worthwhile in any case!
I've worked with Reaper, Studio One as well as several other Daws, and all can say is that the possibilities in Reaper are endless and far more customizable. Although there was a slight learning curve, now that I have Reaper set up to my workflow, I can now accomplish most any task much quicker than I could in any of the previous Daws that I've used. With that being said, I believe the best Daw is the one you know how to use and can afford as it is only a tool, and the most important thing is to focus on is the actual music. Peace!
Going to give Reaper a look... Main advantage between S1 Prime and S1 Artist was the unlimited realtime recording inputs. Learned the hard way that S1 Prime only allows two inputs (or one stereo) recording. I was given an old Presonus Firepod and wanted to record guitar, vocals, bass and 5 drum mics. S1 Artist made that happen quite nicely, with great results. I can now use 48 billion digital audio input devices and record them simultaneously each to their own track. Studio One V4 Artist - $99.00 Nice review, thank you Supercy!
What's really indicative is that you've compared the two [IMHO] best DAWs there is. People should stop looking beyond these two. One [ha!] is for the more simple people who aren't very computer versed, and Reaper is for those who are more knowledgable about computer usage and possibly have analog studio knowledge. I really love how you can connect everything to everything in Reaper easily. But I'm aware that it could feel too convoluted for many people. Good review, dude. ;)
Wonderful and thoughtful comparison Supercy! I'm taking a vacation this summer and have some time to dig into one DAW and one DAW only and thanks to your review it will be Studio One (will try out the free version 1st to learn the ropes and size it up).. Reaper vs. Studio one seems a lot like the Iphone vs. Android phone debate. In the Apple universe, products are slaved over by top tier designers before release to try to use best design practices, and create the best workflow, for the largest amount of people. Not as much ability to tweak and customize to individuals, but a mute point if it's already designed pretty well. So more suited to less tech savvy folks like me who just need a pretty good, not necessarily perfect, tool up and running quickly and effectively to get the job done. In short, I'll take the 90% solution (Iphones and Studio One) if it is an effect enough tool, right away. On the other hand, all my friends who love their Android phones LOVE the customization features and tweak it forever, and enjoy doing so as a hobby, to create the phone that's perfect for them. Cool, nothing wrong with that! But I'm not interested in being able to reach DAW or cell phone interface nirvana by learning code, customizing menus, etc. Time is money too, and I would gladly pay $400 for a talented team to get my DAW to the "pretty good" level without my intervention so I can move on to making music. God bless the guys who can tweak Reaper until every menu is perfect for their workflow, every 3rd party VST that they use productively, and nothing more, is downloaded with ready to go in streamlined drop down menus, etc. If I ran even a small studio and doing work for others, Reaper would be the way to go- absolutely reliable and capable of allowing me to produce the perfect DAW for my market niche. As a singer/guitarist.songwriter though, lucky to finish 5 demos a year for submission, Studio One seems the way to go. Plus I admit, even with those cool looking Reaper themes available (White Knight etc.) the second I go into organic Reaper menus and seeing those plain Jane, blocky text menus , well maybe I'm a tch snob but that would be a downer for me!
Great to hear the video was useful to you 👍 And thanks for the Iphone vs Android analogy. I've never thought of it like that, but it actually makes a lot of sense 😉
I recommend you buy the Audiobox 96 interface for $99 and it includes Studio One Artist edition w/the Magic Suite of plugins. The interface is useful in so many ways. Connect guitars, microphones, and headphones to your computer with it and have full control at your fingertips (much simpler than using software volume/gain controls). Several times a year Studio One will go on sale for 50% off, that includes the upgrades. So, if you like it, you'll be able to get into the Professional version for $150. For $250 plus a microphone you've got a home studio. ;) Well, not entirely true. $199 for a Roland A-49 Keyboard MIDI Controller and you've got every instrument at your fingertips, plus you can learn to play the piano if you don't already.
no Daw is able to modify the themes like reaper .. try. i use imperial that i customized ... whow ..no other Daw is capable of that ..and i'm not talking about the functions for mixing and masteirng which reaper is capable of
I liked reaper lots. But when I got a Presonus Studeo Live 32S mixing council I love the integration with the board. I love taking my notebook into the drum room and can start and stop recording drums without having to run the 20 seconds to get behind the drums, put on head phones and then have to run back to board to adjust levels. I can do all that remotely. But I still miss Reaper. If Reaper could coordinate with my Studio Live board, I probably would retire Studio One Daw.
Solo faltó mencionar que Reaper también es gratis, si bien se usa por 60 días luego puedes seguir usándolo sin pagar nada, el cartelito al abrir el programa es lo que se queda ahí y ya.
I was trying out a fair amount of DAW’s last year. And I chose Reaper. Not because it's cheap but because it is the best one for me. I couldn't imagine it at first judged by the looks. But I found a theme that's really easy on the eyes. ”The commala 5 theme”. And I tweaked it into my almost perfect DAW. After that trying out Studio one S.O. felt outdated. My point is: Reaper has a steep learning curve and you need to tweak it to your liking. After that it is the best!
Thank you for sharing, Jheronimus! It's always good to hear when people find the DAW that fits their specific needs, apparently that DAW for you is Reaper. Good for you dude. 👍 However, Reaper is not for everyone. For example, not everyone wants to spend their time tweaking their DAW to make it into something they want to use. They just want a program that looks great, feels great and performs great out of the box.
@@SupercyMusic Thanks for replying. And I think we agree. For the total opposite reasons, I like Ableton Live for electronic music. Besides that, I'm amazed by Reaper. And at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what we use. As long as we can create good music.
Small channel still, but I love your clear style of presentation. I consider myself a "Reaper power user" but getting more and more frustrated by the midi editor, and for that reason alone I'm trying out Studio One 4 Professional. By the way, you sound a little Dutch (the accent)!
Studio one has some very cool features for producers, but main point of Reaper is very simple - its ultra lightweight, its 100 foolproof (i remember us doing a full 2 hours movie with all overdubs, sound design and soundtrack, at the end the project itself was loading for 10-12 minutes. And everytime whole studio was sitting around and betting will it crash or not. It NEVER did), it has some crazy features like you can automate anything from everything (i am not sure if any console can do it in fact), have some pretty modern featerues like multiple project tabs with direct copy-paste from one to another. Yes its not a commercially polished project like studio one is, and it doesnt have built in synths, but for me reaper was a god send for almost 9 years already. I love it. And I do TV commercials for Burger King and Mercedes Benz events, just saying :D
Thanks for sharing that, Igor! "Not commercially polished", I think is a very good description of Reaper when it comes to its appearances. But it is kind of a powerhouse in disguise.😉 Nice to hear about your experiences with Reaper (and other DAWs); again thanks! 👍
You've said it so well, mate. Reaper makes me feel like I'm running a DAW that is rock stable and I don't need to worry about crashes. The routing thing is amazing. Reaper is the best thing that ever happened to the DAW world. And the price is too low.
The same project, Studio one 52%Cpu, Reaper 2,5 Cpu... The end! In ITB era, there the comparation end, at least for me and I have PT Ultimate, Cubase 12 and Studio One 6, but I always mix in Reaper for this reason and stability.
I´m studio one user (came from cubase and protools) the main difference is that Reaper use all the cpu cores. It is known that DAWs use mainly one cpu core.
Hey Supercy.. By your Video it seemed like Studio One had an upper Hand over Reaper.. But when i saw the comment sections.. it made me realise that Reaper is by far ahead than Studio One.. Now a day its important to compare the video with the comments and this helped me to zero in on the prefered DAW which i think Reaper is undoubtely...
presonus is for people who take samples and stack them together and call it being creative. reaper is used buy people who actually play real instruments and own more then one microphone and actually are creative.
Thanks for your response, James! I don't agree. Being creative or not has nothing to do with which DAW you choose. It's not the DAW that creates music, it's you. A DAW is just an instrument, just like any other instrument, something that helps you get where you want to be. For various reasons, some might prefer Reaper, others may prefer Studio One or another DAW, but it's still only a tool.
The one thing you didn't mention about the Studio One professional is you better be running it on a newer machine with at least 16 gb memory (32 gb or more would be better). So if you're machine is somewhat data, you're going to have add in the price of a new platform in order to run the s/w. Reaper's GUI is somewhat arcane and the system is menu driven so yeah, quite a learning curve. But you'd be hard pressed to come up with some needed function that you couldn't accomplish. For example, the Fx chain you pointed out in Studio One is slick for sure, but you could arrive at the same place via routing in Reaper, it would be more cumbersome but you can get the same result.
I'm running S1 4.5 and before that 4.1 on a Late 2011 MacBook Pro using OS X 10.11.8 (El Capitan). I also have it on a 2015 Acer running Windows 8.1. Both machines had 4 Gb of RAM when S1 was installed and used that way for months. I upgraded the Acer to 8 Gb Ram (its max) and the MacBook Pro now has 16 Gb (its max). Curiously, S1 makes better use of RAM on the Apple OS, and I'm guessing that's because Berkley UNIX is a better memory manager than Windows.
As far as Drag and Drop is concerned, Reaper pretty much has that as well. Reaper's send system can work in a drag and drop method as well. It was actually one of the first DAWS I worked with that worked in this manner, so some of Studio One's drag and drop functionality might have even came from Reaper. That said I agree with you that Studio One has a much more polished look than Reaper.
But that's just it, Hermiel! I actually did mention in the video that in most cases you can get the same results with Reaper as you can with Studio One. The thing is that in many cases that will require some tweaking. And I used that as one of the criteria. So again I do agree with you that it is possible to do with Reaper, but it will take you some extra steps.
reaper is indeed an eye sore, however studio one does have bugs and I love studio one. I will try out reaper but some of the routing really urks me besides the eye sore...
Thanks for the tip! Of course, there are many ways of optimizing any interface (e.g. with shortcuts or macros); what I've mainly tried to focus on in this video was the functionality you get out of the box. But as mentioned Reaper is ultra customizable 👍🏻
@@SupercyMusic One thing you didn't mention, and I don't know if S1 has it, is track templates. With track templates you can load your favourite set of plugins, with your favourite settings with just two clicks, or you can assign it a kb shortcut.
Great review! How about the costs for updates or new versions? I don’t like to spend a remarkable amount of bucks to get the latest version of my DAW, say every 1 or 2 years. Any experiences?
I prefer the old-school preferences window style to the newer dark-theme style one of S1; It’s a standard that everyone knows and you instantly know where things are, where the newer way is less consistent between various pieces of software and I spend more time finding things. Also, I think your presentation of the two DAWs’ routing capabilities greatly undersells Reaper’s routing.
What he didn't mention is that Reaper's preferences have a "find" function. No other DAW has it. If you know what you're looking for it is far easier to find it. Try that in Cubase... S1 isn't so configurable so it only has a handful of options.
Agreed, I used Studio one for two years before switching to Reaper. i found the preferences window in Studio One completely counter intuitive - really hard to find things in there - and nowhere near the depth with Reaper, or Cubase, or Protools or....
I am in a process to choose one to buy, reaper is the best when comparing costs. the others are quite good as well, but a way expensive. for now, reaper seems the best opttion to me.
I was a Logic/Mac user for 9 years until i switched to Windows early this year. I'm glad i switched (I got fed up with Logic's buggyness/crashing + don't like the direction that Mac is heading) and i love how quick and smooth Reaper is with loading etc, but after 5 months of using it i just can't get into it. I love the Reaper philosophy, but I don't like the layout. For me there are just too many options, and the GUI doesn't feel great. I know i can customize the layout and/or download any user-made themes, but there are TOO MANY CHOICES, and i have no idea what to choose and i get decision-paralysis. I need something more streamlined, so I think i'm gonna try Studio One out and see how that feels
From what you're saying, it sounds like: One is closer to what I CAN do or want to, without knowing nothing - - - and Reaper is closer to what I WANT to do, but I'll have to do some studying. In other words, ONE is better for "hobbyists", REAPER for professionals, maybe? Saludos
great breakdown to many people just sensitive about daws they dont have sale rights over.....you gave all facts it is what it is. you can tell they dont listen they making comments on things you already said in short words lol
Dude sounds fair. But Tracktion/Waveform also runs on linux and I think Master Mix (its mastering plugin) might now be shipping with it (previously was sold separately).
StudioOne is a computer killer. It chokes hard drive and memory. Reaper is much more efficient. The EQs and others are more visual and intuitive in StudioOne. I’m new to Reaper so for now, for me, StudioOne is a better writing tool. Reaper seems to be better for mixing.
1st i moved from protools to studio one 3, upgraded to studio one 4 pro and it was amazing, but after testing reaper for months, it keeps on impressing me, It is way better than any other DAW I worked with, it is so customizable and easy to use. once you dig deep into reapers options, you will figure out why it is better than the other 2 (Apart from the studio one Mastering suite which is great). For me, Reaper Hands down, the best DAW in the market right now.
This video is a bit dated, but what I noticed using A/B comparisons of acoustic guitar and vocal tracks about the time this was produced was that Reaper sounded much clearer and cleaner. The mid-range and treble in Studio One was dark and muddy by comparison. I liked the look of Studio One but the sound was a complete deal breaker. If I have to EQ the default sound of a DAW to get something presentable, I don't need it.
I can imagine! luckily there is a huge community you can fall back on with forums and tons of tutorial videos. I'm sure eventually you'll get comfortable with Reaper 😉
I was never able to get Studio One working properly with my Mackie Big Knob Studio interface. I kept getting strange feedback and mic delays (not latency, actually repeating the vocal like a never ending delay getting louder and louder till it just crackled and stopped) and only as mono. I had similar problems in every DAW until I ran across Reaper and everything just worked out of box. It's more to do with how Reaper pushes mono tracks to both speakers by nature. I don't have to fight with it. I never did get any other DAW working with more than one input. I'm sure all of them were capable of being used with someone experienced enough to figure out why it's doing these weird things, but Reaper was the only one that just worked the way it should out of box. Other DAW's I tried: Audacity, FL Studio 20, Reason 10, Studio One 4, Tracktion 7, Pro Tools First and even MixPad by NCH software. The only one I got working with any channel was Mixpad and used it to record on a single channel till I found Reaper, which can now record on both Channels of my Mackie Big Knob Studio without issue and without hassle.
Well thought out, clear and fair. Great review.
Thank you, Kevin!
Appreciate it! 😉👍
HALLELUYAH!(PRAISE YE YAH!)
You'll be surprised if you check out Acoustica's Mixcraft and compare it with Studio One.
@@JPAlpano Yes, I have tried Mixcraft 9. It is a very good DAW, underrated and IMO it is the best alternative of Apple's Logic for PC users.
I get the feeling you don't really know Reaper that well. Many of the differences you point out are not really differences. Reaper has drag and drop as well. In Reaper a track is a track. You can have midi, wav files, even video files all on the same track if you so desire. And it's endlessly customizable. I used Studio One for several years, but then migrated to Reaper. Reaper is far, far more customizable and powerful. It's just that the learning curve is a little higher.
used reaper for a week and can tell he used it for less than a day, thought it was because of an reaper update but naw he just didn't know.
This guy is a fool
ive been using studio one for a couple years now. been using reaper for a few days. i can tell this guy hasn't used reaper and hes kind of a fan boy who likes shiny pretty things rather then functional boring looking tools.
@@jamesrocks300mf Did a video on how to make buses and aux sends and didn't even do it the right way. Takes literally 5 seconds in reaper, OK not as fast as mixcraft but mixcraft is designed to be the simplest daw but reaper is very easy to do the main stuff in. Combined with the Kenny gioja videos its simple
he said reaper was customizable 😒🤨😔 but its cluncky. reaper have the options but they just throw it in their no love to it. that is why they charge what they charge for the daw
StudioOne looks better, way better absolutely. Reaper has drag and drop routing too. Reaper also has last touch modulation, or automation. You can layer instruments in Reaper too in fact You can plug a guitar into Reaper, using Reatune as an insert effect, and use you're guitar as a midi instrument to control a VSTi. You can also edit videos in Reaper. You can basically do everything in Reaper, efficiently. You can have midi and audio on the same track at the same time in Reaper.
Studio One doesn't have built in spectral editing in the timeline like Reaper does. Also Reapers stock plugins, while looking uglier, are actually in fact way more powerful then StudioOnes, like they're unlimited band multi band compressor, unlimited band parametric eq, unlimited multi tap delay, unlimited Impulse Response loader/synthesizer. Reaper even comes with a plugin that lets you create your own plugins lol.
Thanks for sharing, Vincent!
I’m sure Reaper is capable of all of these things. I might even have overlooked some of
its capabilities here and there (Reaper keeps surprising me 😉).
But overall my end conclusion is still gonna be the same. Reaper is amazing, and definitely has some strong selling points, but in my opinion Studio One, in many ways, simply has a more advanced, and more intuitive
interface. But again that's just my opinion.
"Reaper even comes with a plugin that lets you create your own plugins lol."
That tickled me, what's next? Reaper even cooks ya dinner & irons your clothes! :D
Completely agree. I could make a great production with Reaper installed and only a handful of instruments, possibly free. It's got so much in it.
"Reaper keeps surprising me, But overall my end conclusion is still gonna be the same."
Snake Eat Tail much?
Mmm-kay, kool tymze brah.
it sounds like the old discussion between Mac users and Linux users, Linux is much more powerful and offer much more tweaking, if you want to spend the time to do it, while Mac offers what you need in much easier way, at the end it comes to how much time you want to tweak things vs how much time you want to use and enjoy them
Reaper is the best 60 bucks I ever spent.
Same, and by a huge margin.
BECAUSE ITS CHEAP DONT MAKE IT BETTER OR WORSE
3 Times Studio One has locked me out of my project, twice it was a client project. I had to go and disable all third party plugins and bounce my stems out and remix them in Reaper. Studio one is beautiful,but it has a mind of it's own sometimes. Reaper is solid,hardly ever crashes.
I thik studio one files are To havy
Partially agreed with all of you said but you have to know better Reaper. In Reaper you can create a track with a simple double click in the column or in a mixer empty area. Even in Reaper you can drag and drop any FX from the FX window to a specific track. To create a send, for example, you can doble click (as I mentioned before) creating a track, chose an FX to be sent and then drag from the track you want to send the FX to holding left button of the mouse in the route area. Hard to explain but really easy and fast to do. You can chose an instrument and open a track on the fly with a shortcut. Reaper has a long learning curve at first but when you get there you wont come back, trust me, workflow is not an issue in Reaper, it's just different and, btw, there's a manual.
Hello Christian,
Thank you for your comment, it contains some very useful information that some people may benefit from. 👍🏻
I have to say though that for me it contains nothing new. I know that it's possible to create a track by double-clicking, I know that it's possible to drag and drop fx onto a track and I also know about the drag and drop option to create a send. But even with all of that in mind, and even though I certainly agree with you that Reaper is an amazing piece of software, in my opinion, Studio One simply has a more advanced and more intuitive interface.
Anyway, I do appreciate your involvement so thanks again and happy music making 😉
@@SupercyMusic see, the problem is not what you think about Reaper, which I respect totally, but if you do a workflow video comparison, is not fair to show shortcuts of one and "the long way" of the other in order to make a point that, I'm pretty sure, you have for others solid reasons then "open a track" or "adding an FX". I came from Cubase and I think that Reaper has yet something missing with the MIDI editor compares to Steinberg software, but the fact that I have to pay (not that cheap at time) for the newest release not having retro compatibility with my old projects, forcing me to open an old software, no more followed by its developers, that obviously can crash in a new system/enviroment, made me flee from Cubase. Like I said: I'm partially agreed with you, for example: virtual instrument and libraries are important in order to make music today and that is something missing in Reaper, but there's a lot of free/cheap good software out there, so not that much of a problem to a good "music maker"; that's probably why you recommend Reaper to a musician in a budget or "in the begining" anyway. Good videos my friend, I liked the montage, really fuent. I'm happy to be partially disagreed with an intelligent and capable one.
Even though I don't completely agree with everything you said, you definitely make some interesting points!
Keeps me on my toes and it might give some people (including myself) some new insights, so again thanks!
And also thanks for the compliment 😉
@@SupercyMusic I don't get the way you use the word "advanced" - seems very misleading.
"How software used to look at the beginning of the century"
Damn that's dope saying🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks 😄
Thank you for this very objective and fair comparison
Thank you so much for this. I feel like the video was made specifically for me. Very fair and honest review.
Thank you Connor!
It was worth watching. Especially right before 11th minute when you mentioned Studio One Prime not allowing third party plugins. A huge limitation. You just saved me a few hours of testing. Thanks.
You're welcome 😉
Reaper is $60 and takes third party plugins.
Prime is the free version without 3rd party VST support. The latest version i.e Studio One 5 (since July 2020) now accepts 3rd party VST plug-ins as part of standard features of the Artist version - eliminating one of the biggest shortcomings of the previous version 4 - where it was at additional cost. Artist costs $99 and $69 now with black friday discount.
Well, at the moment I’m migrating from S1pro to Reaper. There was a learning curve, you have to be a nerd in some respect. Initially for me Reaper vs S1 mostly was a battle of custom macros/actions. And Reaper won just flawlessly. For example, if you are in S1 there’s no way to make a button or key command to add an instrument to the artangement. But you can do it in Reaper at the drop of a hat. And then I have realized that with Studio one wich i know deep enough I was learning how to work with it, but with Reaper I am teaching it how to work with me. And that is something that no other daw has to offer.
This is exactly why I love reaper. You teach it what to do. Reaper doesn't control you and tell you this is the way it must be done.... No, reaper allows you to tell it, this is how I want it done and reaper follows your lead. You are.l completely in charge not the other way!. I migrated from FL Studio after I got frustrated of the channel rack and having to manually route every track to a mixer channel every time. I was still trying to adapt to it till I got audio recording, then I gave up and was searching everywhere for a DAW I can control, not the one that will be controlling me like FL studio, then I came across reaper and everything changed. It is such a delight to use Reaper. I even have it customized to look like I am working in Logic Pro x. That is how flexible Reaper is.
@@EasyyokeFilms hey fellow reaper user........ I made an orchestral beat using reaper...... Even the beat video was done in reaper......can you give a feedback on that??❤️
You nailed it with the words "you have be a nerd in some respect". I am sure, that Reaper is powerful like hell, but I am still too old to learn a complete new DAW.
@@LaurinaHawks The music depends on it, lol. I learned Studio One pretty well in a few weeks from RUclips, still trash tho.
@@kensmechanicalaffair Well I am back to Cubase meanwhile. And I am astonished how freaking good it is.
Another really interesting video from a great guy, thanx! :)
Thank you, Dave!
Really appreciate it 😉👍
agreed. both are great but studio one v4 is much more well designed, intuitive and thought of than most daws.
Thank you, Texter 😉
I do agree with your statement, but it does depend on your capabilities and preferences. If you're a guitarist, or bassist, or a drummer, or just play a harmonica all the time, I can bet you would prefer Studio One. That was my attempt to be humorous btw... :)
@@dddux What about for making only EDM?
Did the light find you yet?
Anything you can do in Studio One you can do in Reaper. (and more)
There are dozens of free (or priced) instrument plug-ins that can be added to Reaper.
You can record multiple instruments on the same track.
If your recording workflow involves the same series of steps multiple times, you can create a sequence for those steps and assign a single key to perform it.
One has to decide if SO is worth seven times the price.
Also, Reaper is updated one or two times a month - with added features and/or bug fixes.
I paid my $60.00 two years ago and am still getting free upgrades.
Thank you for your contribution! 👍
In my opinion (out of the box) Studio One offers a more user-friendly and a bit more sophisticated interface than Reaper does.
But I do agree with you, it comes with a bigger price tag. And, in the end, there really isn't that much you cannot do with Reaper.
It's all about preferences / making choices 😉
@@SupercyMusic Yes, the main difference is in user-friendliness. The main difference. But ultimately, Reaper is a bit more capable. You get sooo much for little money. Plus a headache sometimes. lol
@@SupercyMusic user friendly is the key difference. and by golly. making music with a computer is just as much about utilising mental resources as efficiently as possible as utilising the tools available to you.
That was a quality review. Brilliantly surmised and so clear. I’ve subscribed as a result.
Reaper has Reatune which is the easiest way to tune a vocal without having to download any other software.
Hey man, just because you don't know where the throttle is, doesn't mean the car is slow ;)
Agree! Studio One gives you the unbeatable advantage of freely dropping an eq over an empty project.
😂😂😂😂😂
Nice honest review. I would argue that the effects in Reaper including all of my other plugins from previous DAW softwares like Cakewalk Music Creator and my T-Racks 5 Mastering suite can be dragged and dropped from the effects menu easily. You can even just clone an effect from one track to another using drop and drag. This is good for me because I often have 8-10 vocal tracks (lots of harmony) so when I set up an effect on one vocal track (EQ, reverb, compressor etc.) I can just drag that effect to all of other vocal tracks and the same parameters are maintained so I don't have to reset each effect if I want the same parameters.
This was good in depth review. Well done. I'm sticking with Reaper.
You can do exactly the same in Studio One. But if course you should stick with Reaper if it does what you need the way you want it. To my taste Reaper is just overly complicated in layout and functions, not intuitive at all. But neither is ProTools and I used that for 18 years.
Can I ask you questions abt vocal editing /recording in reaper LOL
@@ashavari Go ahead. Maybe I can help.
@@Rickholly74 amazing! Thanks! Id like to DM you but I have no idea if youtube still supports this!
@@Rickholly74 I was just gonna ask, what's the easiest way to setup Reaper for an easy vocal recording + comping workflow? I find it's kind of not super intuitive and a little frustrating to work with their vocal editing functions.
Great video dude!
Thank you! 😉
Excellent job explaining the pros and cons. Your are very clear in your non-biased assessment.
Amazing video! Thanks you very much, sir!
I have been a reaper user for 10 years(i think),but....thanks for this video!
You're very welcome, Francois!
Thank you for your insights. With the newest updates to Studio One and REAPER, it would be great to have an updated comparison.
Thanks!
Might not be a bad idea to do an update ... I will consider it 😉
It's not the DAW .. It's the man who uses it
Except if it's Audacity. It could've been my perfect DAW if it had non-destructive editing.
ermonski Lmao I was about to mention that. Audacity is okay (decent), but wasn’t really meant to be a music recording type of DAW, but you can record in it but don’t expect for it to be good as Mixcraft etc......
@@reekrodriqguez6552 I use it for my guitar covers.
ermonski But recording audio-wise is it better than Reaper etc?
@@reekrodriqguez6552 Hell no. Any other DAW is a million times more powerful than Audacity. But for home use, demos, and learning how audio tracks work, Audacity is pretty powerful.
Thank you so much. It really helped me. Great review.
Thank you, Hanna!
Great to hear it was helpful to you 😉
I have to agree. Changed from reaper to studio one a year ago and now the workflow dramatically increased and I can really concentrate on making music. But I am missing the capability of midi plugins and a better cpu load. For me it was my most important decision in making music.
This has been a great comparison, I liked it a lot, I know that many would think some DAWs sound better than another, but really at the sound level between DAW there are no differences, in this era I do not think there are those myths where they say that protools sounds Better, o all DAWs sounds better that fl studio because exports a poor signal, and I don't think so, apart from the fact that I have tried many DAWs, everything is definitely in the comfort that the producer feels, as they say a lot in my country "is not the arrow, is the Indian "
Indeed. I tested Reaper, ProTools, Studio One and Audacity. I made a simple short multotrack song using the same 3rd party plugins in all 4, exported the mix, then imported into one of the DAWs. Then I did the null test, which is basically that you play 2 files and flip the polarity of one of them. If the result is silence the files are identical. There was silence in all combinations. So ProTools sounds the same as Audacity.
@@musician1971a That's really good to know, because I've been using Adobe Audition which I like, but I am being pressured into switching because its not considered the Standard.... I Don't need it for midi, I just use it to mix songs. I just don't know if its lacking in any way upon Export, that's my only concern... Are u familiar with Adobe Audition?
@@andor3442 I really don't understand why you should switch. If Audition gives you the desired results and you like working with it that's all that matters. I used it once or twice and it doesn't "click" with me but it has everything you need to make good mixes. The one reason you would need to switch is for collaboration, or you work in a studio where they use certain software. Other than that, use what you like best. As I stated, they all sound the same basically. People may start on differences in pan laws but that's a non issue as one would take that into account while mixing.
@@musician1971a
Any chance u could do a search on Audition & see if its lacking in any functionality that may be causing it to not give a "PRO TOOLS/LOGIC" sound? I need to be precise before I switch DAWs...
My brother & I argue about the end result of the mixes because he feels there's just something about the program that doesn't make the Final mix sound complete... He wants me to convert to Logic as thats the program he uses, but I don't hear much of a difference in quality... He's an artist & I mix for him here & there, but I really prefer to stick to Audition. Collaboration may be the only downside as u stated, but even then its just a matter of exporting the files as Stems if anything needs to be transferred... I need to figure out whether or not its just ME or the DAW itself.
@@andor3442 that's really asking too much. There are so many possible features in any software and they may name them differently or have implemented something in a different way. All DAWs are lacking in certain areas and will excel in other areas. A difference your brother hears can only come from a difference in mixing approach, not from the software that was used. Especially if it's just audio it doesn't make a difference, no matter what some people may want you to believe. Some just keep going on about audio engines having a big impact on the sound of a DAW while that is utter nonsense as they all do a perfectly good job at exactly outputting the zeros and ones that this audio is made of. It's the simplest part of the whole program! No, ProTools does not sound better than Audition or even Audacity, it's what the user does that makes the difference. If you don't mis any features in Audition while mixing then Audition is not inferior to ProTools, Reaper, Logic, Studio One, Cubase or any other DAW. The only thing that MAY cause a difference is when you exclusively use stock plug-ins. The ones in Logic may be better for some reason but I wouldn't be able to determine that as I don't use a Mac. Eq's and compressors can certainly make a difference. But that's easily remedied by using third party plug-ins. And there are even some very good cheap and free ones
Reaper is cheap, fast, stable, and just work flawlessly. Dont need fancy looking things to make music. You are Wrong about the Effetcts plugin. Reaper has 100's of effect plugins included ! ( REa... and JS plugs ) .. and sound as good as waves, and so ! ... for the instruments, you are right. But i dont wanna pay for plugins i dont need.
Thanks for your comment!
When it comes to choosing a DAW many people aren't sure about what it is that they need. It seems like you know exactly what you need so congratulations! 👍🏻
And if what you need is Reaper, then stick with that!
Anyway, happy music making! 😉
Studio One is all those things you just mentioned, except for the cheap part, although Reaper comes with almost nothing, so you can't compare prices between the two. I have never ever had a problem with S1, and i mix/master daily. Also, all the plugins in S1 are great for mixing/mastering. It looks like you're a bit of a Reaper fanboy, because most of what you wrote just doesn't add up.
PS: i forgot to mention that i use both Reaper and S1, i was a long time Pro Tools user until i discovered S1
@SunTai on a 7 year old PC I can run S1 4 flawlessly, big projects, lots of heavy plugins and the CPU meter does not go over the half mark. I can´t even imagine the performance if I upgrade to a modern 2020 PC.
SunTai StudioOne is slow and has dropouts a lot. You need at least a i7 to run.
Reaper simplemente te dará más música que dolores de cabeza.
- Reaper will simply give you more music than headaches.
Bruh, I really appreciate your thorough and very honest assessment and comparison of these two DAWs. I really wanted to learn Reaper, but I just don't have the time or patience. Also, to totally re-program my brain of doing things the hard way doesn't make any sense to me at all right now. I own Logic X, Studio One v4, and the Eval version of Reaper. If I'm honest, in terms of fast work flow, Studio One v4 pro is the best, then Logic X Pro ( excellent midi integration in most cases) , and Reaper is third, only because I never took the time to master it.... too darn much to learn and the user interfaces look stale and decrepit, like you implied.
Excellent video. I have Studio 1 and was thinking of switching to Reaper, but, may reconsider due to this video. Thank you.
Thank you for this well done video. I've been toying with which DAW to buy. After your comparison, I'm going with Studio One Artist.
Thank you, James!
Good to hear that the video was useful to you.
Happy music making 😉
I had just changed from Reaper to Studio One Artist and I am glad I did.
So easy to use with my Komplete Kontrol S49 and Mk3 combined. The controls are recognized right away and work like a charm. So easy to use and record with.
Thank you, you helped me make my decision. I am a beginner and will go with Reaper. The Reaper Bros also helped me make my decision.
The way Studio one added the track with EQ was enough to choose Studio One and finish watchin this video. Thanx
Very helpful and fair comparison, thanks.
I think you are right that studio one is actually far more intuitive than reaper. Still I think that you've overlooked some advanced reaper features that are on the same level as in studio one, such as regions and region based editing and rearranging, also every track is basically an up to 64 channel mixer, able to route plugins and stuff. Not as visual as S1 not as intuitive but in my opinion much more powerful. Also the fact that you can drag and drop routing too. One of the major drawbacks of S1 for me is moving across the session as there's no horizontal zoom modifier and that is not editable.
Still some of the best things in S1 for me is routing, it just makes a bit more sense. Grouping, as you can group sends and the chord track for producers/composers. But still for me those are not major factors to decide to change, as much as I acknowledge that it's a very well thought-out software.
And I still think you should explore some more about both of them in order to do a fair comparison.
Thank you for your obviously well informed and very fair comment!
One thing I learned while making this video is that it is very difficult making an objective comparison between (any) two different DAWs. The conclusion very heavily depends on whatever you're focused on. What I tried to do is as little as possible focus on my personal way of working, but it's virtually inevitable that you're gonna be at least a bit bias.
Anyway, I still stand by my main conclusion (which you kinda also mentioned) that Studio One is more intuitive and (in my opinion) a bit more sophisticated than Reaper.
But thanks again for you comment ... keeps me on my toes 😊
I agree. That was my first thought when looking at Reaper. It feels like an old DOS program, or like Band In A Box, which is very hard to find things in because everything looks the same, and is hidden in lists where there is no distinction between tools and commands, stuff like that. Menus are a chore to look through for that reason - you have to scan over every item, instead of look for something that stands out or that fits what you might be looking for.
Then there's the new language to learn - most things are under new names, so you have no idea what to look for when looking for tools you're used to using in other DAWS.
I remember years ago, when I gave up on learning Samplitude for that very reason. I was having to start over learning from scratch, because the terminology was all changed so you had no idea what anything was. They had their own terms for all the tools you were used to under other names, so it was too slow going.
Wow. You guys are really missing out. Reaper is an incredible tool. It's more advanced than other DAWs in many ways.
@@alexanderstuartpetty485 It's pretty good if you don't use much MIDI, and don't need many MIDI channels in 1 VST, like Kontakt, for instance. Otherwise it's a "work-around" program.
@@jameseverett4976 You couldn't be more wrong. So we can agree to disagree. Good luck to you!
@@jameseverett4976 ok great. Do you know a way to get 16 channels in 1 instance of Kontakt, like very other DAW can, and if so, can you show me how? I would so much love to be wrong. I wasted a shit load of time trying to find a solution to this, and watched every video that claims to know how, but it was always the same work-around, using multiple instances, and you can't actually do it. I'd even be willing to pay you a small fee, like $30. I really want to switch, but I use Kontakt too much, and dealing with a new instance on every track just defeats the purpose.
I still find Reaper more inspiring for me to make music than Studio 1...I own both and like both...But Reaper has SWS extensions and so much more input from the Reaper community and seems more flexible than other DAWS...I like studio 1 for mixing. great sounding engine
Reaper user here. I love Reaper and will likely stick with it, but thinking of experimenting with Studio One and/or Cubase! Your video was honest and unbiased. I really love your approach at sharing this information :)
Thanks!
If Reaper meets all your needs then I would advise you to stick with it (as you already decided to do).
But of course, there's no harm in experimenting with other DAW's 👍🏻
I love Studio One, but I have to use Reaper too. You can synchronize two computers with Reaper to split resources, via MIDI clock or Timecode. I love doing this because it makes plugin and processing limitations way more minimal. Not to mention this plays well with hardware. Ableton Live and BitWig are Ableton Link compatible- so you can sync via WIFI. Synchronization with Studio One via two computers is a damn nightmare. That said, mixing (and mostly everything else) in Studio One is a dream. I wish they would have kept MIDI.
Thanks for sharing. Great (extra) info 👍🏻
Really informative video, thanks. I just bought a Scarlett Solo 3rd gen. Still figuring it out. But I have Reaper, Audacity, Kristol, Ableton Lite, etc... trying to figure out what is going to work best for me. It's a process!
I have and use both Studio One and Reaper. Nothing beats Reaper for value. Best daw for the buck. That said, Studio One has an overall feature set that for me is easier to use and fits my workflow better than Reaper.
Thanks for sharing, James!
I think I kinda agree with that analysis 😉
In fact, I was with the Pro Tools, after that with the Cubes, and finally I found the studio one of the best among them. and tried to try Reaper, but I had difficulty in the midi, especially I am a music distributor for oriental music Reapers quantise
Edit doesn’t have Groove which I can play like Arabic beats I mean I can make my own quantise in studio one very fast just make it and drag it and save it in my preset quantise as you know there’s complex beat in middle east . I think studio one is the fastest, the best, it makes me more confident in my job.
In my quest I stopped at Presonus Studio One, to me it combines the best of all DAWs into one, can´t beat it nowadays.
Presonus Studio 1 Artist is currently v6 and now allows 3rd party instruments and effects (VST2, VST3, AU) for no additional cost. I'm a long time Reaper user, but I've played a little with S1 and agree with your summary.
In reaper, when you drag'n drop a virtual instrument (vsti in windows) in the track panel, it creates a new track too. But yes it doesn't work with effects plugins.
Thanks for the compareison. Its helping me decide what to get.
That's great to hear 👍
You're basing your decision on bad information, I'm sorry to tell you.
You should never have to apologise for expressing an opinion on a product. If people take offence over stuff like that, they are the ones with the problem, not you. Nice review.
Thank you, Emmanuel 👍
Most helpful compassion I have seen of any daws! Thank you so much!
Very inaccurate though - as someone who has used both DAW's extensively, i would say that this video is very misleading
@Alantis Lad thank you for your comment
I've noticed you've made several comments to this video.
Of course, you're entitled to your opinion and you have every right to disagree with me about this video.
However, you say that you've used both DAWs extensively, but in one of your comments, you've made an incorrect statement about Studio One.
And you say you disagree with me, but in one of your comments, you provide a lot of evidence that you actually support my main conclusion, which is that (IMO) Studio One is more visually pleasing, more intuitive, more user-friendly and basically has a more sophisticated interface than Reaper.
So I'm a bit confused here. You keep contradicting yourself. And I personally think so far you haven't given any very convincing arguments about why you actually disagree with me, in fact, as mentioned, you've given stronger arguments to actually agree with me.
But anyway, if you say that this video is misleading, I totally disagree with you.
@Palmyra_Peak thank you! And you're welcome 😉👍
Excellent review. I think you are fair and balanced. I work with power engineering software and for that I prefer a flexible and customisable platform because I have a deep knowledge of it know it well and can make it do what I want it to do. For DAW I’ve forced myself to learn Logic. It’s fine but MAC computers are now overpriced and so I want to move to Windows. The cost is not a problem and I need to upgrade my audio interface anyway thanks to Apple. I want something without a learning curve as for music my priority is speed and ease of use. I will therefore get Studio 1. If I had the time to commit would select Reaper, it sounds amazing for a free DAW and it’s users clearly love it as you can tell by their tribal defence of any hint of criticism.
Thank you!
I've learned that it's not very easy to make a comparison between 2 different DAWs; different people are gonna focus on different things. But I've tried to be as unbiased as possible.
And yes, I've also learned that the Reaper community is very passionate about their DAW. 😄
I've actually had the same problem with Apple. I had been a long time Logic user, but because of their prices I was kinda forced to go with Windows.
I kinda took a chance with S1 (wasn't really familiar with it back then). (as far as I know) The perfect DAW doesn't exist, but I've been pretty content with S1 so far.
The biggest advantage of Reaper over Studio One is running on Linux. And Tracktion Waveform, Mixbus32c/Ardour and Bitwig Studio too!
After much research, consideration, listing to videos like this and reading the comments, I've decided that I'll just use both Reaper and Studio One.
I have a dedicated focus for each DAW. Reaper will suit my needs for fast production at high volume with little required processing, and with custom menus and commands for speedy projects.
S1 for songwriting, mixing big projects and mastering. Plus S1 is supported by my Slate Raven core station.
My Intel i9 64GB 6TB SSD pc should handle whatever projects I throw at it.
Former Reason and Cakewalk user.
Thanks for sharing, Keith 😉
I just loaded 1 x Diva with 2 other channels (Vocals and 1 Piano vst) in Studio One and it crashed after I touched the presets...
Meanwhile, in Reaper I loaded 3 x Diva while playing them on my Midi keyboard in realtime with not even a single audio dropout...
Should I switch to reaper already? Or am I missing something here? I have an 3,6 ghz 8 core processor with 32 gig ram.
Literally my same story. After hours of troubleshooting, which included a Personus tech support at one point, I just gave up and got a refund. Studio One looks great though. Haha
I can't stand the dark themes that most daws use. I really liked the original theme of Studio One V.1. I use a light grey Logic theme with Reaper.
My main reason for using Reaper is it will run on almost anything and almost never crash.
On the plus side, you can change the color and brightness Studio One, and apparently as of V4, you can pretty much go full light mode by dragging the luminance all the way up. Example: ruclips.net/video/HzJw1CLzN_0/видео.html
Studio One is pretty customizable and as "Live the truth" mentioned, you can definitely change the color of the interface.
And I agree, one very strong point for reaper is that it isn't very demanding for your computer. 😉
@@SupercyMusic Ha! I couldn't remotely describe Studio One as customizable, particularly when debating in regard to Reaper. It has a similar level of cusomizability as Ableton - which is hardly any thing at all. Admittedly, Studio one does have customizable key commands (the interface of which they stole directly from Cubase) but other than that and a little bit of colour changing - you really have to work with the way Presonus designed it....
try one of the "imperial" themes that you can then modify .. once you work with it .. you will find all the other ugly and unreadable
thanks so so much
Thanks…Very helpful video
Although it seems that there is a main problem with Studio one: if you want to use plugins; you need the most expensive version; with free and artist version (200 dollars?) you can't load VSTs; at least from what their web page says. At that point you are in the realm of Logic...which has a ton of VST included too
The graphics are not that important imo. Workflow & sound is. I like the sober interface, makes me listen more instead of staring.
Of course, that's always gonna be a matter of opinion and if you feel more comfortable with Reaper's interface then obviously Reaper is the DAW for you 👍🏻
@@SupercyMusic He was just implying that we should pay more attention to workflow and sound, which is ultimately important for musicians. Not looks. And I agree 100%. I've seen so many plugins that look like hardware and sound like shit. Trust me, I know what hardware sounds like. People get carried away with nice looks. Kinda like with beautiful women - you use her once, and then you start to wonder about the brains, which is usually very hard to find. Then you move on. Same with beautiful looking software/plugins.
For everyone who likes to stick with the configuration of the DAW and dont want to customize a little bit more then the manufacturers allow to do ...go with Studio One (which was my last main Daw and its great) or all the other DAWs out there but Reaper is on another level. You do need time but its worthwhile in any case!
I've worked with Reaper, Studio One as well as several other Daws, and all can say is that the possibilities in Reaper are endless and far more customizable. Although there was a slight learning curve, now that I have Reaper set up to my workflow, I can now accomplish most any task much quicker than I could in any of the previous Daws that I've used.
With that being said, I believe the best Daw is the one you know how to use and can afford as it is only a tool, and the most important thing is to focus on is the actual music. Peace!
Going to give Reaper a look... Main advantage between S1 Prime and S1 Artist was the unlimited realtime recording inputs. Learned the hard way that S1 Prime only allows two inputs (or one stereo) recording. I was given an old Presonus Firepod and wanted to record guitar, vocals, bass and 5 drum mics. S1 Artist made that happen quite nicely, with great results. I can now use 48 billion digital audio input devices and record them simultaneously each to their own track. Studio One V4 Artist - $99.00 Nice review, thank you Supercy!
What's really indicative is that you've compared the two [IMHO] best DAWs there is. People should stop looking beyond these two. One [ha!] is for the more simple people who aren't very computer versed, and Reaper is for those who are more knowledgable about computer usage and possibly have analog studio knowledge. I really love how you can connect everything to everything in Reaper easily. But I'm aware that it could feel too convoluted for many people. Good review, dude. ;)
Nailed it!
Thanks so much 😉
And I think that that is a pretty good summary 👍🏻
Wonderful and thoughtful comparison Supercy!
I'm taking a vacation this summer and have some time to dig into one DAW and one DAW only and thanks to your review it will be Studio One (will try out the free version 1st to learn the ropes and size it up).. Reaper vs. Studio one seems a lot like the Iphone vs. Android phone debate. In the Apple universe, products are slaved over by top tier designers before release to try to use best design practices, and create the best workflow, for the largest amount of people. Not as much ability to tweak and customize to individuals, but a mute point if it's already designed pretty well. So more suited to less tech savvy folks like me who just need a pretty good, not necessarily perfect, tool up and running quickly and effectively to get the job done. In short, I'll take the 90% solution (Iphones and Studio One) if it is an effect enough tool, right away.
On the other hand, all my friends who love their Android phones LOVE the customization features and tweak it forever, and enjoy doing so as a hobby, to create the phone that's perfect for them. Cool, nothing wrong with that! But I'm not interested in being able to reach DAW or cell phone interface nirvana by learning code, customizing menus, etc.
Time is money too, and I would gladly pay $400 for a talented team to get my DAW to the "pretty good" level without my intervention so I can move on to making music. God bless the guys who can tweak Reaper until every menu is perfect for their workflow, every 3rd party VST that they use productively, and nothing more, is downloaded with ready to go in streamlined drop down menus, etc. If I ran even a small studio and doing work for others, Reaper would be the way to go- absolutely reliable and capable of allowing me to produce the perfect DAW for my market niche. As a singer/guitarist.songwriter though, lucky to finish 5 demos a year for submission, Studio One seems the way to go. Plus I admit, even with those cool looking Reaper themes available (White Knight etc.) the second I go into organic Reaper menus and seeing those plain Jane, blocky text menus , well maybe I'm a tch snob but that would be a downer for me!
Great to hear the video was useful to you 👍
And thanks for the Iphone vs Android analogy. I've never thought of it like that, but it actually makes a lot of sense 😉
I recommend you buy the Audiobox 96 interface for $99 and it includes Studio One Artist edition w/the Magic Suite of plugins. The interface is useful in so many ways. Connect guitars, microphones, and headphones to your computer with it and have full control at your fingertips (much simpler than using software volume/gain controls). Several times a year Studio One will go on sale for 50% off, that includes the upgrades. So, if you like it, you'll be able to get into the Professional version for $150. For $250 plus a microphone you've got a home studio. ;) Well, not entirely true. $199 for a Roland A-49 Keyboard MIDI Controller and you've got every instrument at your fingertips, plus you can learn to play the piano if you don't already.
no Daw is able to modify the themes like reaper .. try. i use imperial that i customized ... whow ..no other Daw is capable of that ..and i'm not talking about the functions for mixing and masteirng which reaper is capable of
I liked reaper lots. But when I got a Presonus Studeo Live 32S mixing council I love the integration with the board. I love taking my notebook into the drum room and can start and stop recording drums without having to run the 20 seconds to get behind the drums, put on head phones and then have to run back to board to adjust levels. I can do all that remotely. But I still miss Reaper. If Reaper could coordinate with my Studio Live board, I probably would retire Studio One Daw.
Solo faltó mencionar que Reaper también es gratis, si bien se usa por 60 días luego puedes seguir usándolo sin pagar nada, el cartelito al abrir el programa es lo que se queda ahí y ya.
I was trying out a fair amount of DAW’s last year. And I chose Reaper. Not because it's cheap but because it is the best one for me. I couldn't imagine it at first judged by the looks. But I found a theme that's really easy on the eyes. ”The commala 5 theme”. And I tweaked it into my almost perfect DAW. After that trying out Studio one S.O. felt outdated. My point is: Reaper has a steep learning curve and you need to tweak it to your liking. After that it is the best!
Thank you for sharing, Jheronimus!
It's always good to hear when people find the DAW that fits their specific needs, apparently that DAW for you is Reaper. Good for you dude. 👍 However, Reaper is not for everyone.
For example, not everyone wants to spend their time tweaking their DAW to make it into something they want to use. They just want a program that looks great, feels great and performs great out of the box.
@@SupercyMusic Thanks for replying. And I think we agree. For the total opposite reasons, I like Ableton Live for electronic music. Besides that, I'm amazed by Reaper. And at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what we use. As long as we can create good music.
@@jheronimusduko7998 very true!
5:42 The main reason I use Reaper as my main DAW.
It is actually a very good reason 👍
Small channel still, but I love your clear style of presentation. I consider myself a "Reaper power user" but getting more and more frustrated by the midi editor, and for that reason alone I'm trying out Studio One 4 Professional. By the way, you sound a little Dutch (the accent)!
Thank you, Carsten!
And yes, I am Dutch 😉
Dat verklaart het (lichte!) accent :) Succes met je kanaal @@SupercyMusic
Dank je wel Carsten 😉👍
Van dat accent zal ik waarschijnlijk ook nooit helemaal af komen 😆
@@SupercyMusic Het siert ons!
@@carstenaltena zo is dat 😉
Studio one has some very cool features for producers, but main point of Reaper is very simple - its ultra lightweight, its 100 foolproof (i remember us doing a full 2 hours movie with all overdubs, sound design and soundtrack, at the end the project itself was loading for 10-12 minutes. And everytime whole studio was sitting around and betting will it crash or not. It NEVER did), it has some crazy features like you can automate anything from everything (i am not sure if any console can do it in fact), have some pretty modern featerues like multiple project tabs with direct copy-paste from one to another. Yes its not a commercially polished project like studio one is, and it doesnt have built in synths, but for me reaper was a god send for almost 9 years already. I love it. And I do TV commercials for Burger King and Mercedes Benz events, just saying :D
Thanks for sharing that, Igor!
"Not commercially polished", I think is a very good description of Reaper when it comes to its appearances. But it is kind of a powerhouse in disguise.😉
Nice to hear about your experiences with Reaper (and other DAWs); again thanks! 👍
You've said it so well, mate. Reaper makes me feel like I'm running a DAW that is rock stable and I don't need to worry about crashes. The routing thing is amazing. Reaper is the best thing that ever happened to the DAW world. And the price is too low.
The same project, Studio one 52%Cpu, Reaper 2,5 Cpu... The end! In ITB era, there the comparation end, at least for me and I have PT Ultimate, Cubase 12 and Studio One 6, but I always mix in Reaper for this reason and stability.
I´m studio one user (came from cubase and protools) the main difference is that Reaper use all the cpu cores.
It is known that DAWs use mainly one cpu core.
Reaper also has updates about every 6 or 8 weeks where it constantly updates and improves things.
Hey Supercy.. By your Video it seemed like Studio One had an upper Hand over Reaper.. But when i saw the comment sections.. it made me realise that Reaper is by far ahead than Studio One.. Now a day its important to compare the video with the comments and this helped me to zero in on the prefered DAW which i think Reaper is undoubtely...
Reaper = Limitless Workflow!
My REQ !! Wow tnx.
You're welcome, Farhan 😉
presonus is for people who take samples and stack them together and call it being creative. reaper is used buy people who actually play real instruments and own more then one microphone and actually are creative.
Thanks for your response, James!
I don't agree. Being creative or not has nothing to do with which DAW you choose. It's not the DAW that creates music, it's you. A DAW is just an instrument, just like any other instrument, something that helps you get where you want to be.
For various reasons, some might prefer Reaper, others may prefer Studio One or another DAW, but it's still only a tool.
The one thing you didn't mention about the Studio One professional is you better be running it on a newer machine with at least 16 gb memory (32 gb or more would be better). So if you're machine is somewhat data, you're going to have add in the price of a new platform in order to run the s/w.
Reaper's GUI is somewhat arcane and the system is menu driven so yeah, quite a learning curve. But you'd be hard pressed to come up with some needed function that you couldn't accomplish. For example, the Fx chain you pointed out in Studio One is slick for sure, but you could arrive at the same place via routing in Reaper, it would be more cumbersome but you can get the same result.
Hey Peter,
I actually did kinda say that Studio One is more demanding for your computer.
But other than that, I completely agree with you 😊
I'm running S1 4.5 and before that 4.1 on a Late 2011 MacBook Pro using OS X 10.11.8 (El Capitan). I also have it on a 2015 Acer running Windows 8.1. Both machines had 4 Gb of RAM when S1 was installed and used that way for months. I upgraded the Acer to 8 Gb Ram (its max) and the MacBook Pro now has 16 Gb (its max). Curiously, S1 makes better use of RAM on the Apple OS, and I'm guessing that's because Berkley UNIX is a better memory manager than Windows.
As far as Drag and Drop is concerned, Reaper pretty much has that as well. Reaper's send system can work in a drag and drop method as well. It was actually one of the first DAWS I worked with that worked in this manner, so some of Studio One's drag and drop functionality might have even came from Reaper. That said I agree with you that Studio One has a much more polished look than Reaper.
7:17 Reaper is capable of the same degree of routing flexibility, just not with a patch cord Gui.
But that's just it, Hermiel!
I actually did mention in the video that in most cases you can get the same results with Reaper as you can with Studio One. The thing is that in many cases that will require some tweaking. And I used that as one of the criteria.
So again I do agree with you that it is possible to do with Reaper, but it will take you some extra steps.
It has probably been mentioned, but BitWig is also a commercial DAW available for linux.
I remember that times when all reviews talking about Reaper gave to understand that Reaper ain't for serious things.
I've been using Reaper for years, but I would like to try Studio One.
id love a video like this for cubase and studio one
reaper is indeed an eye sore, however studio one does have bugs and I love studio one. I will
try out reaper but some of the routing really urks me besides the eye sore...
Also you can just hut the fx keyboard shortcut and choose the plugin. no need for making a track first. That way it's faster than s1.
Thanks for the tip!
Of course, there are many ways of optimizing any interface (e.g. with shortcuts or macros); what I've mainly tried to focus on in this video was the functionality you get out of the box. But as mentioned Reaper is ultra customizable 👍🏻
@@SupercyMusic One thing you didn't mention, and I don't know if S1 has it, is track templates. With track templates you can load your favourite set of plugins, with your favourite settings with just two clicks, or you can assign it a kb shortcut.
Great review! How about the costs for updates or new versions? I don’t like to spend a remarkable amount of bucks to get the latest version of my DAW, say every 1 or 2 years. Any experiences?
I prefer the old-school preferences window style to the newer dark-theme style one of S1; It’s a standard that everyone knows and you instantly know where things are, where the newer way is less consistent between various pieces of software and I spend more time finding things.
Also, I think your presentation of the two DAWs’ routing capabilities greatly undersells Reaper’s routing.
What he didn't mention is that Reaper's preferences have a "find" function. No other DAW has it. If you know what you're looking for it is far easier to find it. Try that in Cubase... S1 isn't so configurable so it only has a handful of options.
Agreed, I used Studio one for two years before switching to Reaper. i found the preferences window in Studio One completely counter intuitive - really hard to find things in there - and nowhere near the depth with Reaper, or Cubase, or Protools or....
I am in a process to choose one to buy, reaper is the best when comparing costs.
the others are quite good as well, but a way expensive.
for now, reaper seems the best opttion to me.
I think you should be fine either way.
Reaper is most probably very capable of anything you would need it to do. 👍🏻
I was a Logic/Mac user for 9 years until i switched to Windows early this year. I'm glad i switched (I got fed up with Logic's buggyness/crashing + don't like the direction that Mac is heading) and i love how quick and smooth Reaper is with loading etc, but after 5 months of using it i just can't get into it. I love the Reaper philosophy, but I don't like the layout. For me there are just too many options, and the GUI doesn't feel great. I know i can customize the layout and/or download any user-made themes, but there are TOO MANY CHOICES, and i have no idea what to choose and i get decision-paralysis. I need something more streamlined, so I think i'm gonna try Studio One out and see how that feels
From what you're saying, it sounds like: One is closer to what I CAN do or want to, without knowing nothing - - - and Reaper is closer to what I WANT to do, but I'll have to do some studying. In other words, ONE is better for "hobbyists", REAPER for professionals, maybe? Saludos
great breakdown to many people just sensitive about daws they dont have sale rights over.....you gave all facts it is what it is. you can tell they dont listen they making comments on things you already said in short words lol
Thank you! 😉
Dude sounds fair. But Tracktion/Waveform also runs on linux and I think Master Mix (its mastering plugin) might now be shipping with it (previously was sold separately).
Thanks for the info, Adil!
Didn't know that 👍
StudioOne is a computer killer. It chokes hard drive and memory. Reaper is much more efficient. The EQs and others are more visual and intuitive in StudioOne. I’m new to Reaper so for now, for me, StudioOne is a better writing tool. Reaper seems to be better for mixing.
1st i moved from protools to studio one 3, upgraded to studio one 4 pro and it was amazing, but after testing reaper for months, it keeps on impressing me, It is way better than any other DAW I worked with, it is so customizable and easy to use. once you dig deep into reapers options, you will figure out why it is better than the other 2 (Apart from the studio one Mastering suite which is great).
For me, Reaper Hands down, the best DAW in the market right now.
Even better than Mixcraft?
I would choose Reaper if money would be my limitation, or to FL Studio which even has Life Time Free Upgrades!
This video is a bit dated, but what I noticed using A/B comparisons of acoustic guitar and vocal tracks about the time this was produced was that Reaper sounded much clearer and cleaner. The mid-range and treble in Studio One was dark and muddy by comparison. I liked the look of Studio One but the sound was a complete deal breaker. If I have to EQ the default sound of a DAW to get something presentable, I don't need it.
I'm trying to get into reaper. But after being a cubase user for over 15 years. It's really hard to adapt...
I can imagine!
luckily there is a huge community you can fall back on with forums and tons of tutorial videos.
I'm sure eventually you'll get comfortable with Reaper 😉
Yet you have adapted to Cubase's awkward ways of doing things. ;) Maybe that's why.
As a Reaper user, I think this guys conclusion is fair.
Thanks, Keeran 👍🏻
I was never able to get Studio One working properly with my Mackie Big Knob Studio interface. I kept getting strange feedback and mic delays (not latency, actually repeating the vocal like a never ending delay getting louder and louder till it just crackled and stopped) and only as mono. I had similar problems in every DAW until I ran across Reaper and everything just worked out of box. It's more to do with how Reaper pushes mono tracks to both speakers by nature. I don't have to fight with it. I never did get any other DAW working with more than one input. I'm sure all of them were capable of being used with someone experienced enough to figure out why it's doing these weird things, but Reaper was the only one that just worked the way it should out of box. Other DAW's I tried: Audacity, FL Studio 20, Reason 10, Studio One 4, Tracktion 7, Pro Tools First and even MixPad by NCH software. The only one I got working with any channel was Mixpad and used it to record on a single channel till I found Reaper, which can now record on both Channels of my Mackie Big Knob Studio without issue and without hassle.