Ok, I love reaper
I made a post on here a while back complaining about reaper crashing constantly, turns out it was the way some plugins were launching. but over last few months I've been able to build up a suite of free and opensource plugins and more recently chose to make reaper work for me instead of turning it into other daw's.
this has allowed me to discover the hidden strengths of reaper in its flexibility and how light weight it actually is. I'm on a Lenovo V15 ADA (A really mid school laptop) and it's not braking a sweat. I've made hiphop in reaper, I usually make film music
in a way I'm also a little mad at this cuss I spent 200 on logic and I've been able to replace it with reaper.... soooo yea
But there are still drawbacks
the plugins - there's not many instrument plugins and finding good free ones led me down a rabbit hole that took me away from my music. who knows maybe in the future there might be a better suite with the paid version and you just get the basic plugins with the trial.
you need to know what your doing - I've said it once and I'll say it again, logic is popular cuss its simple to use and has a lot of good plugins. it's user interface is easy on the eye's and It automatically colors tracks upon first entering reaper I never knew what to do. I never knew where everything was. I could be beneficial to have a small tutorial showing you where everything is and what reaper is meant to be for the user. some of these things could include showing the user how toolbars and shortcuts work and how you could make it accustomed to your workflow. also a track auto color feature would be nice.
But other than that I found reaper to be a really good DAW as once again you can turn it into whatever you want. don't get me wrong the scripts are nice, but there are something's that if added as a feature and not a mod would make reaper so much better to the user.
Overall I now have a more positive outlook on reaper and would love to see it take over other space in the music industry.
