The reason that I wanted to buy REAPER 6.0 is that it was, at the time, able to do one thing that REAPER 0.999 and all my other freeware tools could not do and that is to batch edit 20,000 MIDI items. But before that, I've been doing most of my music-making in Anvil Studio and REAPER 0.999. I won't be doing anymore batch MIDI editing soon because the new REAPER already did that and I have enough edited MIDI material to last me a while.bungle wrote:Where was it stated that Reaper 6 would be out in a year ?
I have never known them to announce any time frame on anything, in fact if i remember correctly the beta for 5 was about 18 months or something.
And why exactly are you waiting for 6 ?
Are you trying to maximise your buying potential by waiting for 6, thinking that you are getting more time with a licence ?
Stop kidding yourself and buy it now or just use it on the trial, you obviously aren't really serious about your music making so it is doubtful the developers would have an issue with you using the free trial until you are.
The reason I am waiting for REAPER 6.0 is that I would get 200 updates if I do that.
If I buy current REAPER at version 5.94, I would only get 106 updates.
I have never bought anything via the internet. I'm making an exception for REAPER in the name of sheer gratefulness.
I will never buy anything anymore via the internet after I buy REAPER 6.0. I need to have the maximum updates I can get because I won't buy REAPER again.
I'm always on a tight budget and penny-pinching is the only way to go for me.
So yeah, I'm just grateful that the new REAPER did the job. But I don't need new REAPER that soon. I can wait 18 months or more. But if it arrives soon, I'll buy it and make REAPER my DAW for life and I probably won't need Anvil Studio and Podium Free and REAPER 0.999 anymore. Until then, REAPER 0.999 and Anvil Studio and Podium Free, will be my main music-making tools, as they were before, as they are now.
Regarding that other matter, I think you are right. I'm not "that" serious about my music-making. If I am "that" serious, I would quit speed scrabble. But there have been times I did quit speed scrabble and just focused on trying to make "unsucky" songs. I was half-serious about music-making just like I was half-serious about speed scrabble.
But I always reverted back to being a speed scrabble player. I couldn't stay away from playing speed scrabble for longer than 6 months (estimate). But I noticed that right now, I'm spending less time at speed scrabble again. I may quit speed scrabble for good this time and not just for 6 months (estimate), and instead focus on nothing but getting "that" serious about music-making.
But, I have to find a "satisfactory music-making method" first before I become "that" serious. There's no point being prolific with an "unsatisfactory music-making method".
That would be insane and would fit Einstein's definition of that word.
Some internet articles stated that Einstein never was the source of that famous saying. I forget the exact saying and I'm to lazy to Google it now but it's something like "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over even if the result is not improving."
But even if Einstein never stated such a statement, I still think that the statement is true and I do my best not to stick to an "unsatisfactory music-making method" by always trying out new methods. It feels much less insane. So much less, that it nearly isn't.
Oh my dog. I think I'm going insane. I have this feeling of deja vu of a deja vu.
One time, I was in a dream and in that dream I was waking up and I did wake up but I wasn't sure I wasn't still dreaming, I half-thought I was just waking up in the dream. Holey moley.
Another time, I was in a dream where the living room was shrinking. I woke up in a panic and as I opened my eyes I found myself staring at the ceiling and the living room was still shrinking. There were people in the living room during all that and later on they would tell me that I was shouting "Get out, get out! The room is shrinking, we are all going to be crushed to death!!!"
It's hard to sleep but when sleep finally comes, dreams like that happens to me, and I'm like "I don't want to sleep." What if in one dream, I have a heart attack? I would be panicking in the dream and that could cause a real heart attack and I will die without waking up? Yeah 'cause it's impossible to wake up dead? But what if I wake up and look up and this guy with a goatee in a red spandex is grinning at me and Elvis (not Costello) is actually singing "A Hunka Hunka Burning Love"? Holey moley.
If that's the case then I probably wouldn't bother being a penny-pincher anymore because my heating bill will be nonexistent 365/24/7. Big, big savings. Anyways, since I don't hear Elvis, and reality is still real, I really really really have to go to what some of the Brits call the loo, right now. And after that, I have to be brave and try to sleep. I'm getting dizzy. Okay then, goodnight.
