Plus, no dongle and it's super CPU light. It took me a while, but I was even able to make a Cubase theme so I could transition easier. Mono button, solo'd fx tracks, comp lanes, and stereo sends all come standard. Although it takes longer to set up, there's so much more you can do than with Cubase. Was skeptical about Reaper, but it's got a cool sythe logo, so I'm down.
Just felt too shady to spend my money there.
#Cubase vs reaper pro#
Next, I checked out Studio One since they had a free version along with their own Artist and Pro versions, but quickly threw that out the window after finding out that unless you bump up to the Artist version you cannot make any buses or folders, they have trouble with mp3 support, and unless you shell out for the Pro version, you can't use any 3rd party plugins. And unfortunately never going to get better. Unfortunately, I couldn't get a comfortable layout, some controls were slow to fiddle with, and there was a 2 second delay I couldn't get rid of between pressing play and it actually playing. The layout is sorta customizable (but difficult) and has all missing Cubase features right out of the box along with some nice quality of life tricks like individual track waveform view adjustment. Heard Cakewalk went free after that Gibson bullshit, so I gave it another shot. All that being said, I finally reached a project that required stereo sends and began my search for a new DAW. I've also gotten so used to the Cubase layout and workflow that when I demoed Cakewalk a few years ago, I gave up after half a day. Along with that, I hate dongles and the only features I really yearned for was a mono button, being able to solo sends, having sends in stereo, and comp lanes.
#Cubase vs reaper update#
I had always toyed with the idea of Pro, but couldn't justify $700+ to upgrade with yearly update charges. I remember originally justifying it to myself by saying "if I'm ever able to afford it, I'll go legit" and I did just that by making the small leap to Cubase Essentials and then to Artist a few years later. I've been a Cubase loyalist for a long time, (most likely due to the guilt from having pirated it when I first started using it) but I'm finally saying goodbye.
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