Speaking of good deals, a friend of mine in the recording industry told me
about a DAW software package called REAPER, available for download on the net,that his company is now using commercially. He told me that the developers set out to directly target the likes of Pro Tools and all the other top end software on the market. I bought it about a month ago and I can tell you he is not kidding !!. This thing is a programing masterpiece. It's so intuitive and easy to use and does everything and more that Pro Tools and all the others do. The download file is only 5MB so it comes down in a flash.
Now I will get on to the good part...it is priced at US$40.00...no that's not a typo that's
four zero dollars. They do ask that if you are going to use it commercially and make a lot
of money that you pay US$150.00 however, if you don't expect to make more than US$20,000
a year out of it they are happy with US$40.00. It is all based on an honesty system
and you can download the fully functional program for free...no strings attached, and as they suggest, try it out for a couple of weeks and,if you like it, buy a license and if you don't, delete it. I should declare that I do not have, nor have I ever had, any association with the producers of this product and the only reason I have posted this
information is I believe its' producers have a similar ethic to our beloved PG Music
folk and that is.....price it so that everyone can afford it and let's have some
musical fun.
By the way REAPER will run all Pro Tools RTAS plugins' and also all Pro Tools external
hardware...You've gotta love it!!! I think there is more to the name REAPER than meets
the eye.
Regards,
Paul