At the suggestion of my friends at Open Labs, I've been using Reaper rather than Nuendo lately, and I have yet to encounter the slightest disappointment.
This is big news coming from me. My production schedule demands that I change sequencing/recording software very reluctantly. When I have to produce music, sometimes it's got to be, like, 20-30 tunes in a weekend. I need to have knowledge of the software in my muscle memory so that I can move at the appropriate rate.
Disclaimers:
I have not yet tried anything involving video
I have not yet tried anything with complex time-stretching--something that Nuendo is amazingly good at.
Short Synopsis:
Wow. I don't know how many guys work on Nuendo, but I think it's too many. From what I understand, this is the work of two guys and it kicks ass. I'm saving keystrokes left and right, ha ha, and every time I look for a feature I need, it's not only implemented, it's always robust as hell, and usually implemented in a way that's slightly smarter than what I'm used to or had even imagined.
and get this...In several months of working with Reaper, I have found NO BUGS.
Repeat.
NO BUGS.
I haven't felt this confident in a piece of software since the Golden Days of MIDI-Only MOTU Performer on the Mac.
I'll keep y'all informed. Let me know if you've done any editing-to-video, especially involving complex hit-points.
And, Reaper Guys....THANKS. My life is better because of your work.
--FAT
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Here's some badass info about badass dude who makes badass Reaper:
Battino wrote me privately: "P.P.S. -- How cool that Justin "Reaper" himself commented! I bet he'd be a good BBQer. You knew he also wrote Winamp, Gnutella, and Ninjam, right?"
...um, duh, uh, nope. But now I do. And it freaking figures, doesn't it? Rock Solid.
Come to BBQ, Justin!
http://www.projectbarBQ.com
I bet your "mystically-assigned Cowboy Name" will be Rock. Or something better...
Hey now, we do have bugs from time to time.. Don't get peoples expectations TOO high! :)
-Justin
From what I understand, this is the work of two guys and it kicks ass.
There's a saying that every programmer you add to a project adds several months to the process because communication becomes so much less efficient.
I'd tried Reaper and didn't get very far, but maybe I'll give it another go. I think it's one of the few DAWs you can install on a flash drive.