Does anyone else do this? And why?
I mix a lot of my beats in Reaper, mainly for CPU reasons, but I also prefer the interface.
Normally I'll mix it roughly in FL, and export an mp3 to play back after a short break or whatever. If I think its sounding good enough to finish and not scrap, I'll go back, take off all the FX, and render the all the stems, which I then load into reaper. Once I have it all in front of me, with both the unmixed, and roughly mixed version, I sort of see the bigger picture and figure out where I want to go with it, if that makes sense.
For some reason I seem to get better results this way. I have no idea how, both softwares do pretty much the same thing, Reaper doesn't have much that FL doesn't, but I always get a better mix this way.
I mix a lot of my beats in Reaper, mainly for CPU reasons, but I also prefer the interface.
Normally I'll mix it roughly in FL, and export an mp3 to play back after a short break or whatever. If I think its sounding good enough to finish and not scrap, I'll go back, take off all the FX, and render the all the stems, which I then load into reaper. Once I have it all in front of me, with both the unmixed, and roughly mixed version, I sort of see the bigger picture and figure out where I want to go with it, if that makes sense.
For some reason I seem to get better results this way. I have no idea how, both softwares do pretty much the same thing, Reaper doesn't have much that FL doesn't, but I always get a better mix this way.