I'm a regular and committed user of REAPER and I have been recently toying around with that version of CAKEWALK that Bachus pointed us to. I could swear (using the same audio interface, Alesis I/O 26) that the same audio coming out of Cakewalk sounds better (IDENTICAL TO THE ORIGINAL) than the same exact thing recorded in REAPER. Is this possible? Same settings (4400/24bit), same signal, same everything. Could the two DAWS (audio engines) be processing the data differently? It's not that Reaper is bad, it's that Cakewalk sounds better. Any light you can shed on this? Thanks.

chas