0:15 Bandlab 5:22 Soundtrap 8:44 LMMS 12:58 Reaper

Thanks for the love 💜

Oh boy. As a Reaper user for the last couple of years, I totally understand your experience because it was similar to my experience when I tried Reaper for the first time. But after trying pretty much every major daw under the sun like pro tools, ableton, fl, bitwig, s1, cubase etc. etc. I decided to stick with Reaper because it's the most customizable and most flexible and one of the most powerful daw out there. But one of the biggest downside of Reaper is that the UI doesn't look as good and pretty as most other daws and the hotkeys out of the box is not the best, especially if you've used any other daw before. But man, when I tell you this is the most powerful and most flexible daw I've ever used in my life, I mean it. There's nothing that you can't do in Reaper. Every single thing is customizable in Reaper, it's so customizable and not just that you can download themes to make it look like a completely another daw, but you can basically replicate workflows and hotkeys from other daws or combine workflows from other daws and make really powerful and fast workflows and literally customize the right click context menus. It's extremely powerful and CPU efficient, like it runs better on apple hardware than apple's own daw. Reaper is definitely not one of those daws that you can just download and start making beats seamlessly out of the box like FL or LPX, although I'm sure there are people who've done the exact same. But Reaper is a daw that will take some more initial investment and some setting up, but it will give you a lot more in return and saves hours and hours of your life in the future. I've been using Reaper for a few years now and after customizing it, it takes me 1/5 of the time to make beats compared to when I was using FL. Reaper is in a league of it's own, so I hope you'd give it another try in the future.

bro bandlab sounds is lowkey underated. they got hella shit for free.

Reaper for creating Metal/rock as a musician is incredible. Not sure how it is for making trap beats n pop but for a Metal musician i love it

Reaper for mixing. Actually far superior to any other daw for so many reasons! So cpu efficient as well 🔥

Reaper is not only the most powerful DAW in this video, but it's also the most powerful, flexible, versatile daw in the market. But It does have a steeper learning curve than any other daw out of the box, but it's so worth learning it because there's nothing you can't do in Reaper. Anything that's possible in other daws, it's also possible in Reaper. Everything you wanted to do in this video in Reaper can be done. Like there's a browser in Reaper, it's under view > Media explorer or the hotkey ctrl + alt + x. The media explorer in Reaper is way more powerful and feature rich than the browser in FL or Ableton or Logic, like you detect pitch and synch with the project tempo and half time and double time the samples directly from the browser and also route the signal through an fx chain and do other crazy stuff. And it seems like in the latest FL update, they've copied one of the features from Reaper. Reaper also comes with a sampler called Reasamplomatic500, long name, but it's pretty powerful, and you can add your samples to make 808s there pretty easily. To delete a note, you can double left click or right click and chose delete or press delete.

Reaper Gang!!!

I used to produce in Soundtrap for 1,5 years so when you played these sounds, instant nostalgia hit me cause every time I thought,,Hey, I know that sound, I used it in that song of mine" lol But yeah definitely a very limiting DAW, even in the supreme version. I wouldn't say it was a wasted 1,5 years, but I'm definitely glad I made a switch to FL half a year ago, I finally feel free haha

Big shout out to reaper man, so much value for free

yo bro as a pretty avid producer on bandlab i wanted to lyk that you can actually make drums way better by pulling one shots into the sampler and using that instead of the drum machine. a combo of soundtrap and bandlab is a good way to make a beat as well. i tend to make the 808s and some melodies in soundtrap and then use the sampler to make the drums in bandlab. preciate your videos tho.

6:41 Ocean is playing with fire😂😂😂

Reaper is fire I know Big records that have been mixed in reaper and i also use it religiously I can give you mad shortcuts and theres also a file manager which you can access with this shortcut Ctrl,Alt, X

my first DAW was LMMS, made probably 10 beats on that one. 😂

The nice thing bout reaper is that you can customize it any which way you like ,it's super lightweight and powerful

As a bandlab rapper you have been approved

you need to give band lab another try, you can drag in the one shots into the sampler and use them from there

when i first used REAPER, I couldn't put the kick and snare in time, it took me some time to figure it out. and the its like Reaper has a configuration for each thing you wanna do. However, with time, I loved editing vocals from Reaper and making beats from Fl or Logic (and some from Serato Studio) I only use Reaper now for vocals...Its the best daw in making all those twiks but for sure its hard to make a trap beat from it.

bro i haven’t seen u in YEARS…. THE HAIR i was watching u 24/7

I love seeing big producers using LMMS. I used it for about 13 years before finally getting FL studio, which is much easier, but LMMS still feels like home to me. It takes some creativity, but you can make some good stuff with it.

Damn I thought my boy Reaper would CRUSH this comparison 😔 I swear by it but I’ll admit the beginning was BRUTAL

imo soundtrap is the best out of all ngl...

Excellent video, thanks man. Really helped me

Reaper is BY FAR the best daw of these those, everything is customizable. Yes, it may have some learning curve but it's the most expandable daw ever. You can actually create your drumkits being part of a bus, you can add markers for more sliced beats (You only had your 4 beats set) so you can more easily time your high hats... Reaper has everything any professional daw has and more... You can do everything from arrangement and mixing to mastering in one project in reaper and you can do it all simultaneously as well... it's not too hard on cpu and as said before its 100% customizable, you can even make your own shortcuts if you don't like the existing ones...

Earliest I have been to a video but I see free and I'm in.

You missed GarageBand 😅

I started on Soundtrap in 2017 and watched loads of videos in 2018 and switched to logic in 2019! Big ups ocean.

For reaper to use samples in midi the inbuilt plugin is called sampleomatic (or something along those lines)

you can time stretch it, only if you put that track in first then change the bpm before you add more tracks

I used Lmms before getting fl, i think i used it for a year or so. Definetly do not regret upgrading to fl

i think you should do vocals on these daws as well just to see their capabilities....one with like a pro vocalist and another with a regular person for comparison

Love from Jamaica 🇯🇲

I have used all these DAWs except for Soundtrrap.. I will have to check that one out.. Reaper has a steep learning curve due to its made for people who like to tinker .. other daws are TractionWaveform... MPC Beats... Luna and if on PC Cakewalk by Bandlab. Thanks for the video Ocean

lmms >> but for those who want to use lmms get the alpha version the alpha version has more features, better ui and more stable than the stable version

NEVER IN MY 2 YEARS ON MY USE OF SOUNDTRAP, I NEVER THOUGHT YOU COULD SHRING SAMPLES😭

Mpc Beats is free to use from Akai , you just need a controller .

Reaper definitely has a learning curve but I guarantee you it's *way* more powerful than the other DAWs. And even WRT hotkeys you were definitely doing some stuff the hard way. Want to copy something? Ctrl/Cmd + D. Want to delete something you've selected? Press delete.

Bandlab also has a daw called 'CakeWalk by Bandlab'. I use it for realtime fx for my guitar and it works great.

I used to use Soundtrap for years before switching to FL Studio, but it's really good. All of my old music is from Soundtrap, but I ended up switching over due to the lack of effects and some bugs

I will say with reaper out of the box it is not that great but once you get it set up to your workflow it tunrs into one of the best daws out there. i been using it for 2 years now and now that i got everything dialed into what i want it to be it is amazing! Reaper has so many user plugins and scripts that can make it such a powerhouse of a daw

I love this

Reaper is definitely the one with the highest learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, you can do almost ANYTHING. The MIDI editor is probably its weakest feature, but you can almost certainly change a few hotkeys around to make it flow as easy as, say, FL's MIDI editor. I personally don't really use the MIDI editor that often as I use reaper more as a live recording DAW, but I can see how it can be a little strange out of the box :P

I made some heat on Reaper fs, but I got hooked on FL and no turning back lol

That is an Apple user right there. Reaper is challenging, it's so hard, I give it 5/10. Bruh I was using FL for 15 years and when I tried Reaper it was not that challenging at all. It's as any other DAW. You just didn't want to invest even an hour in it. Reaper is a DAW that can compete with Avid and Steinberg and cost $60 for all future versions. Live, FL, Logic and others needs a lot of work to be on par with Reaper. By the way, I am a fan of FL.

reaper is an insane daw, after using it for years it is way more capable and powerful than any daw especially fl studio

using reaper for like 10 years, best DAW ever out there

Talented🎉

The best daw I used was MPC software , you get a super high quality sound out of the box . If you don’t know how to mix and master and want that dr . Dre , Timbeland , jermaine du pre , Neptune sounds mpc software will give it to you . All you really have to do is adjust your sound because the sound engine is so powerful. You can also record vocals if you don’t have a interface just a rode mic it will sound like you have a top quality interface it’s so simple when you record it comes out top quality. Everything thing is so easy like when you hook up your mic go to preferences click on audio and you will see your mic click ok . If you plug in your mic before you load the program it will automatically detect it and you can use it right away .

i started in reaper. Because of how long it took me to figure it out and now that I actually got it down, I moved to a different DAW and barely had any DAW handicap. Never going back to Reaper tho lol. But like Dead Mau5 said, if you learn reaper you learn them all haha

Just wondering, why not Luna? Also Serato Studio has a free version. Both of these daws are amazing.

I mostly use Soundtrap for my music and remixes, but you also missed Studio One Prime or Zenbeats

Really love my Mixcraft don know if am gonna cheat on it

Show cakewalk some appreciation its lowkey the best free daw by far

Bro I am just starting to use LMMS and I think it is kinda confusing but pretty sure it will be smooth after sometime

currently using FL for drums, reaper for everything else

What about Universal Audio's LUNA? I've seen some good things from that too, with it's free version

soundtrap hit hard for being able to use it on my school laptop 💀🙏

Should've tried Ultraboxx

hi ocean love the content, I have a really annoying problem where I have a lot of wav files for drums and melodies and basses but don't know how to import them as an instrument in logic? Couldn't help but notice that you do that in some of your videos so would hugely appreciate some help.

Best Daw is the brain. Anyone else made a beat in there mind? No? Just me then

Reaper is a bore but once you get it down its quick. I have been on Reaper since 2011 and I'm still learning haha

Should’ve used sampler for bandlab!! Maybe next time?

It'd have been good if you tried Cakewalk too.

Try tracktion waveform

Reaper King ;)

2:34 bro theres an icon in the rigth of automations that time stretches

you need to press add and add sampler

The only problem I have with bandlab is not being able to use presets or play one shots as midi

Ima god on bandlab 🔥🔥🔥

CAKE WALK! you forgot cakewalk!!!!

Awesome show

give mixcraft a go, i want to see how you get on with that one

Bandlab is fire asf, I use it for all my music, soundtrap is ass but has higher quality instruments, lmms is more lile fl but idk how to vsts and I'm scared

All is good but we miss one of great daw { OHM STUDIO } 😔

best free alternative to ur favorite daw is ur favorite daw for free ;0

serato studio>>>>> (my first daw before fl)

good vid

Soundtrap is the best one

I haven’t seen someone use LMMS since the last time I stop using it 😭

One thing i can say! You don't learn from beginners😢 a person on the DAW for first time can't rate it right😮 Reaper is way better that it was made to look in here and it is wayy better than all this other DAWs Reaper is fully functioning DAW if you willing to learn and it's your first time in DAWs and you willing to grow take it and you will never regret❤

caustic's been quite fr

and drag the sound in there

Reaper is for Og’s and it not free Avant-garde since the bigining

Although there are sometimes Links not loading when the streamers take the links

My friends started using lmms and me and him both couldnt figure out how to use it, even with my prior knowledge with cubase

11:54 sounds like a travis scott beat its nice

Hey Ocean...a free DAW that you missed is Traction Waveform Free, it's a free unlimited daw like reaper but without the annoying popup to pay for it whenever you enter the daw

Can you showcase cubase sometime

Reaper is the best DAW out of the bunch

can u try cakewalk by bandlab/ sonar by bandlab

Caustic 3 isn't free, but for 10 dollars and the absolute insanity that is that caustic 3 workflow (especially on android, tho i hear it's pretty good on computer too), the price is justified!

your really good on soundtrap i am so uneducated

Ableton Live Lite ftw

serato studio?

use the splice drum editor lmao

u shId give mixcraft a go. Its a free daw my school uses

Bro reaper is the best daw 😉😉

i use soundtrap but i have presonus and idk how to use it

No Waveform?

I use Reaper. It cost a few cup of coffees. Almost free. It's cool, doesn't use massive PC-resources, you can customize it to your liking and so much more, the community is cool, and no problem getting instruments and effects for it. Reaper have a somewhat a steep learning curve, but there are some seriously good youtubers to help you along. It is really not that hard. I will give Reaper 11 out of 10 😉😎🙏