I switched to Mac for home use and recording about a decade ago and I've never looked back.
Pro Tools for Audio Recording and Editing, Cubase for Music Production, Logic as a nice substitute if neither of those are available. But if given my choice, Reaper is not going to be my 'go to' app.
I only messed with Reaper because I needed something cheap, and needed it to run on an older computer. I work with Pro Tools, Logic, Garageband, and Cubase daily. You can make music on all of them, but Reaper is different enough from the mainstream apps that you can't take what you know from Logic and apply it directly without a lot of re-orienting, but you can transition from Cubase to Logic or Pro Tools (or Cakewalk, or Studio One, or Digital Performer, etc.) without too much hassle. So it's actually far less intuitive than anything out there - or, I should say, Reaper is a Mandolin, while Logic is a Tele, Cubase is a Strat, Pro Tools is a Les Paul. It's as 'anti-standard' as you can get and still call it a DAW. But if you think Cubase is not particularly intuitive, let's just say that 'Logic' is an oxymoron.Īs one reviewer said, 'Logic is the only DAW that makes me want to bang my head against a wall'.Īll of them of course have their pros and cons.Īnd really, Reaper is the 'outlier' IMHO.
