Logic Pro X works absolutely great and loads instantly for me but that's because I know what I'm doing... (32 GB RAM/ 2 TB internal drive and VEP5 in my Mac Pro and 16 GB RAM and 1TB in my MacBook Pro and VEP5) and 12 TB of external HD's in RAID !!!!!

 

Wow... that IS ugly...

 

I used the crap out of this Bars n Pipes software on the Amiga 1000 back in the day!

 

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If Reaper keeps up the great work the big boys will be losing a lot of of business if they don't catch up. I am so impressed with the vst 32 bridge and the stability of it. I know it has it's faults, all of them do. I know they will get the midi editor better and other stuff, but a lesson for the big boys is how damn lean and mean it is.

 

No. Pro Tools is and will remain the industry standard. Little to no bands/artists will take you seriously if you're using Reaper in your studio (or anything else than Pro Tools/Cubase/Logic for that matter). It doesn't matter if Reaper is the most complete DAW, it doesn't matter how much people think Pro Tools suck, what matters is what your clients want. And most of them will want Pro Tools.

 

Hum I agree and disagree with your statement. Things change. It may take many, many years but things do change. Some for better some for worse.

 

THE CHALLENGE FOR A DAW IS TO BUILD IT'S OWN HARDWARE. PROTOOLS RULES = INDUSTRY STANDARD. GAME OVER

(i wish Logic Pro X would have it's own hardware, i would buy it ASAP)

 

There is a possibility that Avid may collapse. What happens then?

 

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everybody will be buying MOTU audio interfaces....

 

DP is harder to learn and I don't think it is so stable and better than REAPER.
Discussions about REAPER's MIDI is not actual now, because a lot of problems was in versions up to 3, and now MIDI has been improving throughout version 4 and now the latest one is 5.15 (5.20pre's). Maybe you have missed something? Maybe your problems have been already fixed? Have your ever read all the big changelogs that are published each month? Can you say me, what is wrong in REAPER's MIDI? Stop reading "Fuck the REAPER's MIDI" discussions from 2000's.
I remember when I worked in Cubase 5 with VSTis and hardware synth - I fucked my brain working with MIDI, and now when I am on REAPER - I am happy. I like everything there. Speaking about REAPER's workflow - it is the best I have ever used. S1's workflow is just a "beautiful GUI" and I really hate it, but like beautiful GUI so much. I hate its plugins scanner - long and a lot of crashes. REAPER's plugins - I don't use them, but like ReaEQ and ReaFIR, some of JS (analysers). Logic - I don't have Mac and will never buy it, because I don't like paying a lot of money to expensive brand. I have bought a cheap PC with very powerful hardware, Mac will cost 10 times expensive than my PC or even more (I will buy 3-4 more powerful PCs, than one semi-powerful Mac).
Cubase/Nuendo is a very good DAW, but I will never go back to it. Samplitude/Sequoia too. S1 too. But REAPER is the future, I think. Often updating and large updates, not just "one-two features and five improvements and several fixes a year".
And also: Steinberg have been doing their Cubendo for more than 20 years, but REAPER is only 10 years old. ALSO: Presonus, Steinberg, Logic, PT, MOTU are companies with a lot of people working there. REAPER is just a "couple-of-guys company". Now imagine, what if Cockos will be big as Steinberg.
And I hope and believe that REAPER is/will be a big (r)evolutionary product. But I see S1 is too, but not now. Later maybe)

 

The industry standard is just a DAW which cost $10000000000000000 and doesn't matter is it really bad/good/very old/ugly/beautiful/(un)stable/(dis)supportable etc. To me they are: PT, MOTU, Pyramix, Cubendo, SAWStudio, SADiE, Diamond Cut DC8 Forensics, ...
Not cheapest DAWs...even if one of them will have everything features of all DAWs...dunno

 

I never said Reaper's midi sucks, it's already way better than S1 and Pro Tool's midi. I said it's not the best for midi (because you said that Reaper is the best at everything). Reaper has everything now with the upcoming 5.20 update (a score editor, finally! It's the only feature that was missing). But it doesn't matter how much features Reaper has. Some people don't, and will never like reaper (just like some people will never like pro tools/cubase, and so on..). So there's no point in saying it's the best DAW, because it's not true at all.

 

Worst DAW at update prices

Steinberg Cubase