New to Reaper

I just started using Reaper about a week ago and I must say I am very impressed. I have used Sonar, Audacity and most recently Ableton Live 8. I really like the workflow in Ableton and it allows for quickly putting ideas together in the session view. But it can be unstable (at least on my system) with some of the amp vst's. What I like about Reaper: * it loads fast * it is very stable... it hasn't crashed/hung on me yet * the take system.. I really, really like this. * the routing of tracks.. any track can send/receive from any other * the ability to split items and apply individual effects.. very cool * punch in/out based on time or item selection, regardless of what loop selection is... I could never figure out how to do this in Ableton * lively forum and devs seem to contribute and listen for feedback There are so many options and knobs, I will have a lot of fun playing with them all. Nits: * the metronome.. I can't seem to find a freq that is pleasing * beat detection... I wish there were some way to easily figure out the tempo of a loaded wave file and adjust the project for that tempo... and further align the measures accordingly. Ableton does this fairly well. So what do you like about Reaper? What other gems have I not uncovered? Thanks to the devs for this.. it's a steal at 60$. And the manual is pretty good too.

You can also try select an area of wav that supposed to be a measure and press shift+alt+c.

i love reaper 

yes as you told the reaper is interesting and super. work with envelops . the icon is near to i/o . change the trim mode to write , select volumeme , pan etc. close the window , play the track , adjust the volume and pan fader up to your wish. stop the play. change the write mode to read . now play the song . the track will obey and act as per your instructions which you gave.!!!

Here's the High and Low tones I use for the Metronome, Hope they are of some use :)

I use these two samples snatched from Sonar 7. They are the best, IMHO:

Thanks for posting the tones Shep. I've always found that the best click track sound for me is a cowbell. And how can you go wrong with more cowbell?

But shemp's tones are not cowbells? :/

No...but might be useful in some application none the less. Like if I ever record some easy listening stuff (not likely). Mainly just saying... I've foud a cowbell to be an excellent click patch because it'll cut thru most anything clearly. Learned this one in the old Battalion days when tracking live with two guitar players with screamimng distortion from amps that went to 11 (only slightly exaggerating).

I do like a bit of cowbell in the right place :D