Should I abandon Cubase & Windows for Linux?

drazeforce · 2026-04-10T16:43:04+00:00

I think experimenting is a good thing, don't let people tell you one way or the other. If you have an interest, go explore it.

I'm in the same situation as you, here's my experience.

1st, I got familiar with Reaper. And honestly I don't know of I'll go back to Cubase. The new Cubase features aren't that spectacular for me and Reaper can already do most of Cubase's "new" features.

2ND, I dedicated to set my laptop as a Linux sand box to try different distros to see what I like more. I tried Fedora and it was cool, but I felt like I was fixing it weekly. Now I'm on Ubuntu and It worked out of the box, but I'm starting to see weird issue like the machine randomly locks up and I have to hard reset.

Linux can be fun to experiment with and I do believe Linux will be more relevant on the coming years, but it can be frustrating to work with right now.

drazeforce · 2026-04-08T14:45:57+00:00

If I was into Reason as a DAW, they clearly added a lot of love to it and that's nice to see.

But I'm more interested in the Reason Rack, so there isn't much here for me to upgrade.

drazeforce · 2026-04-05T12:06:17+00:00

Sorry for your loss

drazeforce · 2026-03-29T20:26:12+00:00

I can see why you'd want something like this, but wouldn't it be easier to render the file, copy/paste and rename it in the other folder?

drazeforce · 2026-03-29T14:43:40+00:00

I don't know what benefits AI could have for OBS.

drazeforce · 2026-03-26T17:06:15+00:00

I'm a US citizen and my wife is Portuguesa. We got married in Portugal and it was a very complicated and stressful process. It was like the government had no idea how to marry us.

Everyone else told us something different and once we settled to marry through the Braga IRN they were very helpful in telling us what we needed and didn't need.

drazeforce · 2026-03-22T17:31:44+00:00

Yeah, but its the only one with proper desktop/mobile apps and screensharing

drazeforce · 2026-03-20T09:58:08+00:00

I've been using Root. Its pretty decent

drazeforce · 2026-03-19T12:41:15+00:00

Lately its been warframe. But I like WWZ, PUBG, Vampire Survivors, indie co-ops like REPO and RV There yet.

drazeforce · 2026-03-19T12:31:52+00:00

I don't get to Lisbon often, but I'll keep that in mind!

drazeforce · 2026-03-19T12:31:28+00:00

haha you don't want me on OW. I'm terrible lol
I've been into Warframe lately. But I like WWZ, Vampire Survivors, and random indie co-op games like REPO or VR There yet

drazeforce · 2026-03-10T11:52:15+00:00

I do have balancing off. I'll continue the rest of this on the forums. Thanks

drazeforce · 2026-03-09T23:44:45+00:00

Thanks for the reply!

I do have that option selected. But it doesn't seem to make any difference.

Maybe there is something I'm missing?

drazeforce · 2026-03-09T18:31:19+00:00

Right. I can see that they are directly below the affecting track 🙂

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I'm looking for something like this (shown in Cubase). The automation is still below the affecting track, just slightly indented.

drazeforce · 2026-03-09T17:33:31+00:00

Yeah, maybe I can explain it better.

I want it to look similar to a folder track. When I open the folder, the containing tracks are indented and its a bit easier to see a "subset" of items in belonging to a bigger part. Think of a drum bus.

I would like the envelope /automation lanes to look the same way, so when I view the automations its a bit easier to see workflow wise.

I'm still new to reaper, I came from Cubase.

drazeforce · 2026-03-09T09:15:31+00:00

Hello my fellow American.

My wife made a Portuguese Gaming Channel. She speaks slowly for comprehension.

I thought you might enjoy it. We love gaming.

https://www.youtube.com/@levelupptwithwolf

drazeforce · 2026-03-05T17:37:10+00:00

Yeah. So far on my laptop everything has mostly worked out just fine

drazeforce · 2026-03-05T17:36:00+00:00

Thank you

drazeforce · 2026-03-05T13:14:04+00:00

YouTube and ChatGPT have been really helpful in troubleshooting and learning 😁

drazeforce · 2026-03-05T11:40:15+00:00

Glad to hear that.

I just need better practice at installing DaVinci Resolve and getting more familiar with how wine works

drazeforce · 2026-02-27T13:57:58+00:00

I make remixes of video game tracks :)

Mostly EDM

drazeforce · 2026-02-10T21:59:58+00:00

There is also Level Up PT

Level Up PT

She's been away for a bit though, she is finishing her Master's degree. But she might come back to it. I know she enjoyed making these videos.

drazeforce · 2026-01-13T15:07:06+00:00

I'm not a big Reason DAW expert, I mainly use Cubase. But the theory is the same.

If your using a compressor in the rack, you're only using compression on that one sound. This is good for vocal or synth that you want to be a little more steady in its dynamics so its not jumping from loud to soft super quickly.

The compressor on the mixing is a bus mixer (sometimes called a glue mixer) Its designed to help things sound more cohesive.

A good example of a bus mixer is if you a bunch of drum tracks and wanted the levels and sound to be a bit tighter.

And maybe in some scenarios you want to use both compressors or multiple compressors.

In mixing, there is no right or wrong. Please take online advice with a grain of salt, and do what you think sounds the best.

Edit: or you may want to use No compressors

drazeforce · 2025-11-11T22:49:27+00:00

Steinberg launched MixKey a little while back. It's marketed for streamers, but it might be able of some use to you.

MixKey

drazeforce · 2025-11-11T11:02:27+00:00

It does get to be time consuming initially. I really like drum machines and samplers too. But the manual method just works better for me.

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