Likes

1. Price: I'm not a pro, but I don't want to use a cut-down version of a full software package. I've got Samplitude, but I've been leery of upgrading to the next version due to some bugs they're still working thru in their new engine.

2. Routing: The routing matrix makes it very easy to select several channels to a send, or different audio outputs.

3. Multi-processor scaling: Does this way better than Samplitude, my other audio app. I've heard it scales well even on 8 cores and possibly higher. Who needs a UAD card?

4. More effects included than you can shake a stick out. Some really nice compressors and stereo tools. Some unique things like the ReaFIR EQ/Gate/Compressor.

5. Responsive developer: Got a suggestion or bug? Report it to Justin and you may see it in an update. Compare this to what happens in the Samplitude forum, and it's night and day.

6. Timely Updates: There are often 2-3 updates a week, some with bug fixes, some incorporating feature suggestions, some with new items Justin whipped up on his own.

7. (Coming) cross platform: Soon Reaper will be available for Mac, making sharing work all that much easier.

8. Great free tutorial videos: I've learned alot from these, including quantising audio, using reaper to trigger samples, etc.

9. Customizable Skins: People have complained about the look of the program, and now you can customize the look any way you want, or use skins others have developed. I know a lot of people are waiting for White Tie's "Troublemaker" skin to be done.

10. An Active and Interested User Base: I think a lot of the credit to this goes to Justin's openness regarding his development process, but people are pretty quick with answers on the forum, and they've recently started an IRC chat as well.

Dislikes:

1. No object editor: This is supposedly coming in v2, which I beleive is scheduled for the end of the year. But it's a functionality I got used to in Samplitude.

2. No mixer controls for basic effects: Why have a mixer view if it has no functional additions to the track view? There has to be a way to control selected parameters in your effects from the mixer, control send levels, etc.

3. Too many options, maybe?: I've just really scratched the surface of what the program can do. I haven't used the lanes feature at all, which can help when comping takes or working on difficult cross-fades. I've only used automation a little bit. Part of the problem with so many possibilities is that sometimes you don't know about them until after they would have been useful.

4. No WAV editor: You can link to an external editor, but I didn't have to do that with Sampllitude, So this goes into the "con" column.

5. Answering the "What's Reaper?" question: Of course this a problem for anything that's not Pro Tools or Garageband.

6. Midi Implementation not fully developed: ...but give it time. Personally I'd love a drum editor built in.

7.-10. Hasn't helped my hair grow back: okay I'm stretching a bit here. What can I say, I like the program.