Justin Frankel’s REAPER at FISTFULAYEN

Justin Frankel’s REAPER

Sometimes people ask me, what’s Justin doing?

No one believes me when I tell them the truth: he’s creating his own audio editing suite a la ProTools — he’s written an incredibly flexible piece of software, called REAPER, which is a 3.2MB download (!) and is $50 shareware. When I tell people the reaction is usually that I must be crazy or lying to them, because a) it’s not possible, and b) if it was they’d have heard of it. Well, as it turns out it is possible, Justin is really doing it, and you haven’t heard of it because it’s just him and Christophe spending 100% of their time writing code, playing with the result, and making music, and 0% of the time marketing it.

But don’t take my word for it, read this review in Electronic Musician which was the inspiration for this post.

Download REAPER for free, here.

Thanks Alan for sending me the link to the article.

ian

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Comments

gribbly wrote:

Reaper is badass, I paid hundreds of dollars for Ableton Live – but I haven’t used it since I found Reaper. I pair up Reaper with Reason, and it’s a great setup.

What I find amazing – apart from the absurdly tiny download (it used to be less than 2MB!) – is the pace of development. It seems like every time I boot Reaper there’s a new version, with a bunch of bug fixes, optimizations and enhancements.

There’s also a good forum at the Cockos site.

Posted 12 May 2008 at 8:57 am ¶
Phillip Kerman wrote:

Looks sweet, but point in fact: it costs $225 for commercial use… $50 is the non-commercial price.

Posted 20 May 2008 at 6:41 pm ¶
Jim Norton wrote:

$225 for a commercial license when the software is regularly updated for free is an amazing deal. See the messageboards for Logic, Cubase, and ProTools for people angry about bugs and deficiencies left in programs for years.

Also, there is a 30 day, fully functional demo download available.

When the OSX version hits I may switch full on.

Posted 22 May 2008 at 11:53 pm ¶
Phillip Kerman wrote:

In no way did I want to pass judgment on whether it was a good value or not–just thought I’d correct something that could be inferred incorrectly from the original post.

Posted 25 May 2008 at 12:13 pm ¶
SomeJerk wrote:

What? Do you really think a cheap shareware program can keep up with THE industry standard, established since decades? Do you think “you get what you pay for” is just an empty phrase? Do you really think that 3 guys can conjure a rabbit out of the hat all of a sudden which does the same as a product that is supported by some hundred employees worldwide? Do you think professionals can do work with that and get professional support?

If you really think all that, you’re damn right!

Posted 22 Jul 2008 at 11:50 am ¶
Glen Clifford - Journalist, Taipei wrote:

Reaper kicks ass! See my post written way back in August 2006, when Reaper was just 9 months into beta: http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=2081

Posted 16 Feb 2009 at 6:51 am ¶

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