I tried Reaper and found I was digging around for really simple things. Well you could say that about any DAW really. because unless you're familiar, the buttons aren't always obvious or marked. Still the same clunky interface, and a horrific setup just to get started.

Well my latest experience with cubase was version 6. GUI is actually simplistic for a reason - less CPU loads, and frankly, Cubase 5 looks as bad to me. Drag and drop is a genius thing, which Steinberg don't seem to grasp, as well as simplicity on the surface, and great depth of options to explore, easy installation, (unlike ProTools), good and simple controls ( unlike Reaper), ability to use keyboard as midi controller (both piano and grid). I was finally able to concentrate on music instead of tech programming and watching tutorials on internet. Reaper is awesome, by the way, I use it as alternative to crumblesome and generally stupid Cubase.Īs a person, who was struggling with creativity block on Cubase for two years, Ableton opened a whole new horison of possibilities. It may be good but I really don't like that Windows 3.1 like GUI, or Linux Xlib like. I haven't tried it yet (I have a version on the Scarlett cd). because it's free! Also from what I can see, it has everything I could ever need

Reaper vs mixcraft