One thing is for sure, there's never been a better time to be using these tools. Maybe you should try them both, and draw your own conclusions, based on your own workflow. It's fast, quick, and powerful, and does what is says on the tin, as well as a much deeper layer of tools, and features. I wish them well.īut strictly imho, there's little that touches Reaper out there for the workflow i use. Ardour is onto version 2, and they seemed to be cruising along a pretty busy development period with the advent of vst as a compile option. I use a lot of midi,so common sense dictates i use a programme that has a bigger percentage of midi features. I find Reaper to be outstanding in wine,with no performance degradation at all. Threads like this are usually a bit of a flame trap, but staying objective, each to their own. I've never used Ardour but is there something that Reaper offers a professional that possibly Ardour does not? Automatic Phase Alignment - not bundled though - a few compressors, a few exciter/EQs, etc.).I've just read a thread on a Linux blog about how great Ardour is and I was curious as to how Reaper compares to Ardour? In particular, why do people go through the troubles of using Reaper under wine as opposed to just running a native Linux application such as Ardour? Up to a couple of years ago, maybe less, Ardour didn't come with any plugins, now they include some (very simple) plugins, whereas Reaper comes with its ReaPlugs suite and a plethora of Jesusonic plugins (which are quite easy to code by the way), some of which are very good/useful (eg. For example dynamic automation based on audio input has niche uses but it's great (if you carefully think about what you want to do, you can do it on a regular console too, but say you want to duck the bass or midbass region of a bass guitar whenever the kick drum plays, you can either split the track in various bands with filters - being careful to match the filters' cut off frequencies - and then apply some sidechain compression to the desired band, use a bespoke plugin, assuming it exists or that you are willing to pay for it or code it yourself, or simply automate the EQ plugin according to the volume of the kick drum, which is most desirable because you don't have to plan much ahead and just experiment with values). There are a few things that can't be easily done in Ardour (or ProTools for that matter). It is designed in a certain way that makes it more like a traditional console. Ardour takes more after ProTools with a few twists. Reaper is sort of its own thing: all tracks are everything and can be anything, for example they can flexibly move from mono audio to MIDI to multichannel audio plus the DAW has complex routing capabilities, also internal to the track itself, and complex automation features, including dynamic automation based on audio input which is something spectacular. To be fair Reaper and Ardour have two different models. I'd say it's the best DAW on Linux currently. It was free for the longest while and even now while you require a licence to publish anything made with it, it's still fully functional with nothing behind a paywall for the endless trial. The main reason Reaper gained so much traction in the first place was because it was the cheapest offering of a fully functioning DAW to the massess. But again that's just a presentation thing. The vst interface is a little off putting coming from Logic and Pro Tools. Like they all offer the same functionality so it comes down to which one you prefer more. It has the weakest midi editor imo but that's a feel thing. It sits nicely behind Pro Tools and Logic because it offers the same capabilities as them. I've used all three plus Bitwig, Abelton and the Presonus DAW. It's a very good DAW, but I wouldn't put it ahead of Pro Tools or Logic. Maybe it has no competitor on Linux but to build it up like it's the cream of the crop DAW is a little misleading.
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