BBC and Reaper

Zblogny · 08-28-2012, 05:43 PM

Hi Reaper people !
Did you know that the BBC runs Reaper in its two big Music Outside Broadcast Trucks ?
Go take a look at page 55 of the latest issue of SOS :

"The trucks record to multitrack, but this is just a matter of creating a safety copy, as it will be a 'live mix' that is sent to broadcast. Interestingly, the recording is done using Cockos' Reaper, a surprising choice for many, but one that overcomes the traditionnal hardware limitations of Pro Tools, and single-platform nature of Logic. "

Acall · 08-28-2012, 05:54 PM

It's just that good.

white33 · 08-29-2012, 04:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Zblogny

Hi Reaper people !
Did you know that the BBC runs Reaper in its two big Music Outside Broadcast Trucks ?
Go take a look at page partagas serie d no 4 55 of the latest issue of SOS :

"The trucks record to multitrack, but this is just a matter of creating a safety copy, as it will be a 'live mix' that is sent to broadcast. Interestingly, the recording is done using Cockos' Reaper, a surprising choice for many, but one that overcomes the traditionnal hardware limitations of Pro Tools, and single-platform nature viagra online of Logic. "

Where to find the full report?!

JamesMK · 08-29-2012, 04:56 AM

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Originally Posted by white33

Where to find the full report?!

Well...

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Originally Posted by Zblogny

Go take a look at page 55 of the latest issue of SOS :

Zblogny · 08-29-2012, 05:58 AM

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Originally Posted by white33

Where to find the full report?!

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep1...estival-ob.htm

If you are not a SOS subscriber you can buy the full article in pdf format.

bob · 08-29-2012, 06:13 AM

check this thread out.

http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=80471

White Tie · 08-29-2012, 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Zblogny

a surprising choice for many

Its a low footprint DAW that majors on reliability, and so gets used in just such a context, worldwide, a great deal. That shouldn't be surprising, its just that there's no PR onslaught shoving it into the public consciousness. Moreover, specifically the BBC's use has been public knowledge for years.

To be fair, we do live in a world where Cockos' lack of marketing douche-ry is much the exception, and its not reasonable to expect every journalist to know that.

rictheobscene · 08-29-2012, 07:13 AM

Nice to see Reaper getting a little love.

rothchild · 08-29-2012, 10:17 AM

I noticed that at Shambala festival, this weekend just gone, they were live multitracking the 'second' stage 'Chai Wallers' with Reaper too. Sounded good in there too so if you're that engineer props to you dude!

danfuerth · 08-29-2012, 11:58 AM

Agree Reaper is the way forward for all Audio Daw.

The only thing lacking In reaper that is massively needed for live work and mixing is the automation "grouping automation issues" .

There are workarounds but still.. someday...

martifingers · 05-30-2019, 03:01 AM

Here's the reference for the BBC.
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniq...broadcast-team

The very successful British band PSB also use REAPER:

https://www.musicradar.com/news/guit...casting-574464

cyrano · 05-30-2019, 04:51 AM

Reaper is in use all over European broadcast stations...

For instance, the archival service of our national broadcasters uses Reaper. And the podcast section of a Dutch national broadcaster does too.

kirk1701 · 05-30-2019, 11:29 AM

Many CBC Radio producers use it as well.

vdubreeze · 05-30-2019, 11:44 AM

Two years ago when I was hashing out the details for delivery of files for Audible's productions, both edited and unedited, I was told by them that Reaper was used by their in house production rooms as the recording DAW, although editing was generally either ProTools or Soundforge (at the time).

Geoff-h3o · 05-31-2019, 02:34 PM

"I've never trusted Klingons and I never will. I can never forgive them for the death of my boy."

Yeah co-dependence can be a real killer ;-)

prefadez · 06-05-2019, 02:25 AM

I'm quoted in one of the linked threads above. I'm still a BBC radio producer and use Reaper on a daily basis. I first hopped on the Reaper train in 2011, liked it, and bought it for myself. I finally persuaded the organisation to purchase it too. (Spending licence-fee payer's money is never particularly easy.)

Reaper still meets all of my initial needs, but what I have really come to appreciate is its lightweight nature. It doesn't need much hardware to run on, it launches quickly, and best of all, it can run portably. Installing stuff here can be tricky.

See also: stability (very rarely crashes) and its ability to read many audio formats.

There are a couple of things I wish Reaper would do - mainly to do with working with text so scripts could be assimilated into the timeline - but I've held back from asking because my needs are probably quite niche.

By way of comparison, an email came around just this week from a colleague asking for help converting an old Audition .ses file to a CS-Audition .sesx file. I was
astounded to see that CS won't read its own (old) file format. That person has literally no way of opening an old project at work.

However Audition is still the leading "unofficial" audio editor within the BBC. I should probably take some blame for that - I was one of the first, if not the first, to introduce Cool Edit Pro (as Audition was) to BBC radio in about 1997. Nowadays I try to extol the virtues of Reaper but people stick with what they know.

I was making a live recording of a major UK artist a couple of years ago and found his engineer uses Reaper. That broke the ice and led to some very helpful co-operation!

If anybody need question the value of Reaper, consider that I last paid for it in 2011. I'm itching to pay again - my two versions' worth is surely almost up...

kirk1701 · 06-05-2019, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Geoff-h3o

"I've never trusted Klingons and I never will. I can never forgive them for the death of my boy."

Yeah co-dependence can be a real killer ;-)

You've never seen Star Trek VI?

The Byre · 06-06-2019, 07:03 AM

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Originally Posted by prefadez

There are a couple of things I wish Reaper would do - mainly to do with working with text so scripts could be assimilated into the timeline - but I've held back from asking because my needs are probably quite niche.

I did a radio play three weeks ago - recorded on Radar but edited in Reaper (mastered in Soundforge). I think Reaper is the only DAW that allows one to import any damn audio file and just patch it in. Background chatter for an office scene from a library as MP3 - in it goes. Original dialogue in 24-bit, in it goes! No conversion, no media-pool.

Reaper in A-for-V is perfect. ADR is now a dream. Just put stretch markers on the consonants and move them to where the lips come together on the footage. Job done! Foleys the same.

Each audio event takes a few seconds and saves at least two minutes per edit, usually longer, compared to other DAWs. Also, recording the ADR is much, much faster, as one no longer has to get a performance AND make the audio match the lips. With between 5,000 and 10,000 audio events per movie, that's a huge time-saving.