ComputerArt.Club wrote: ↑Fri Jun 01, 2018 9:43 pm
D.ray wrote: ↑Fri Jun 01, 2018 1:56 pm
I would recommend Reaper for a DAW:
https://www.reaper.fm/
You can try it out for a unlimited time with no restrictions.
Looks interesting, but I dont think that what you are saying is their official stance.
The website says it has a "free, fully functional 60-day evaluation" not unlimited.
Well, it's not their official stance, but.....
you can basically use it for an unlimited time with no restriction even after the 60 days is up. (There's basically no enforcement or penalty, other than you feeling guilty for not purchasing it if you find it useful.) Hence why it's users and me included, encourage people to buy it. It is only $60 after all.
60 for discounted or personal use (though this is also suitable for some small businesses)
225 for commercial.
The $60 licence covers personal use, educational and non profit, as well as commercial use if your profit is less than $20,000 a year.
The only real difference between the trail version and the paid version is a 5 second splash screen at start up. And both the discount and commercial are the same.
The $225 licence is for commercial use if you make more than $20,000 a year in profit, or if you are feeling generous and want to support the company. I've known many users who end up paying that $225 despite meeting the $60 requirement, or they buy the $60 version and end up paying $225 because of how useful it is. Although it is unstated, the company has basically made it as easy as possible for any user to purchase it, despite economic status.
The company's unique and awesome stance is one of the reasons why so many people support them.
This is from their website.
Cockos Incorporated was founded in 2004, beginning an effort to build quality software that would benefit people throughout the world.
Our goal is to develop software sustainably while preventing profit rationale from forcing engineering compromises. By doing so, we can keep our product visions intact, giving maximum benefit to our users.
It certainly doesn't hurt that reaper is an incredible software to begin with. It basically destroys it's competition, which is why it's becoming so prevalent in audio recording and the music scene. It's incredibly stable, lightweight, fast, has many unique features, amazing native plugins and is highly customizable.
The fact that you can write code for it and change or add features or functions, is one of the reason why it's so powerful. You can pretty much tailor it to your needs and taste.
I've spent many hours writing stuff for it, but once done, it'll execute various actions that would take you several minutes, or even half hours to do, and with a single click of a button do it in matter of seconds. You can further save time by customizing various other aspects that make it as efficient as possible for your workflow. Other DAWs do have things like macros, but they don't come close to reaper in customization. It's saved me so much time for all the things I do, which apart from composing include recording, editing, mixing, mastering and various other audio tasks.
By now, it should be apparent that I'm a huge reaper fan. I've tried other DAWS, and IMO, Reaper has them outclassed. It' s one of the best purchases I've ever made.
I made a forum post on ardour asking about sharing the installer. I think the answer will be that I can share it for free as it is open source and you should be able to do what ever you want with it, but I guess Ill have to wait for an answer first as it is a bit more complicated than that for ardour.
I've never actually heard of ardour before. It looks interesting, but I haven't had any experience with it myself. However, it's always great to see open source software in use.