a couple of questions

[GRIM1977]

Hi everyone, noob here, would like your thoughts, I am running a macbook pro 2011, LION
10.7.5, I have a Roland Studio Capture on order and I would like to know if it will work well with Reaper, Also , do I need to get an external sound card or will the Studio Capture handle those duties.. and should I get the 64bit Reaper .. Thank you very much for time

[GRIM1977]

Thanks for all the great ideas and suggestions, great forum! 62 views and nobody could bother to answer a couple of questions.....sad

[Guitardude57]

I am a new guy here as well. I haven't tried my Macbook Pro yet, as my main studio computer is a dual boot pc. My interfaces are an 896HD MOTU, and an Ultralite for the laptop.
One HD in the computer runs XP Pro service pk 1, and the other Win7 Pro 64.

Reaper is working perfectly fine for me. All my Waves plugs work as expected.
In fact Reaper works better than SX3, and Sonar Producer 6.2.1 I have used since they were new... on my Win7 HD at 64 bits.

Let me know your issues in depth, and I will try to help you sort them out.

Mike

[serr]

Originally Posted by GRIM1977

Hi everyone, noob here, would like your thoughts, I am running a macbook pro 2011, LION
10.7.5, I have a Roland Studio Capture on order and I would like to know if it will work well with Reaper,

You can demo Reaper for free and find out. Reaper supports more audio interfaces than any other DAW. Download it and try it out!

Originally Posted by GRIM1977

Also , do I need to get an external sound card or will the Studio Capture handle those duties..

Adapting a pci card interface to a newer Macbook Pro would be cumbersome and expensive. (External PCI card adapter and so forth...) Stick with firewire, USB, or thunderbolt.

What are you concerned with it handling?
Look up the manual for the unit and it will tell you if there are any restrictions you need to follow. For example, some units might restrict the number of inputs you can use at the extreme high sample rates like 192k.
Usually all the ins and outs are enabled for 44.1k & 48k and still usually for 88.2k & 96k as well. But the manual for the thing will tell you.

Originally Posted by GRIM1977

and should I get the 64bit Reaper .. Thank you very much for time

Totally depends on your 3rd party plugin collection.
23 bit plugins? Use 32 bit Reaper.
64 bit? Use 64 bit Reaper.
both? 64 bit Reaper would be the only choice and then hopefully there won't be an issue with Reaper bridging the 32 bit plugins to 64.

This all has zero to do with sound quality or performance. The 32 and 64 bit here refers to the OS code handling and NOT digital audio bit depth (which commonly uses the exact same numbers).