hehīTW, I think it's great that Reaper uses the two-tiered commercial/non-commercial pricing model used by a number of developer oriented softwares. And not just because I'm a huge cheapskate but there is that. I'm a Sonar guy, but if I was shopping, Reaper would be one of the first places I'd look. The human brain starts kind of glossing over stuff after a while. this stuff gets complicated and detailed. The guy had apparently just never explored enough. So I opened up my old version of Sonar 4 and, sure enough, every item on the guy's list of things Sonar (4) supposedly didn't have and found each. In fact, I remember sometime within the last year or so, keeping a toe in the water of a Sonar thread and this one guy popped in and said something like, Oh, I used Sonar 4 Producer for a couple of years but I got frustrated because it it didn't have features X and Y and feature Z didn't have sub-feature A.
So it might really be worthwhile to try to do at least a couple projects in each. I don't think anyone can even begin to scrape the surface of any of them in an afternoon or two. That said, modern DAWs can get pretty complicated. AS far as questions about Reaper, you'll probably get more responses over at the Reaper forums.And you can also DL a demo version of Sonar, too, so there's really no reason to wonder. If you don't like it, it costs you nothing.
#Reaper vs sonar 8.5 full#
If it's for home use, it's $60, if it's for a full blown commercial studio, it's $250. Once you are happy with it, you simply pay for the license. You get the full working version of the software, with full save mode, no shutdown after a certain number of minutes, and all of the features. Reaper can be downloaded and used indefinitely for free.
#Reaper vs sonar 8.5 plus#
Plus Nuendo 5 is about to be released, so I've heard.īottom line is you can just compare them yourself. Presonus Studio One looks really good and promising. PS: If Reaper has issues with some plug-ins you might have used to "shape your track" including UAD stuff or Duende, I hope you are willing to live with pops and clicks on your final track, cause Reaper isn't able to do a clean bounce this way. where I can load only half of that under 32bit and it starts to hurt. Sonar X64 can load a ton of plug-ins and still work.
#Reaper vs sonar 8.5 windows#
I am a Sonar guy myself, but lately I have been frustrated with Sonar 8.5.3 both the 64bit version and the 32 bit, on windows 7. You choose it for the workflow/features/stability.Īudacity is free, yet I don't see it praised as the ultimate DAW. You don't choose a DAW based on the price. Reaper costs about $260 or so for commercial licenses. You are forgetting that 60$ is for home and small businesses. You want to spend thousands on gear and plug-ins, but skimp out on your main tool - the DAW! Everybody arguing about the price, f-in a$$holes!