Like game industry professionals who need to get creative and technical stuff done with the most powerful tools available, perhaps? https://www.reddit.com/r/GameAudio/comm ... ame_audio/Izak Synthiemental wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:24 pmReaper users are mostly nerds who like to customize every aspect and who like to combine exotic functions to do weird things to their audio
Note that this isn't a budget thing either: Reaper is being used extensively with professional middlewares that cost thousands of dollars for anything larger (i.e. for project budgets over $500k in FMOD's case, for example, offering Reaper integration as the de facto solution for the DAW -> middleware -> engine pipeline) https://www.fmod.com/studio
In the end, though, the "game industry audio type" is still somewhat generalizing, and generalizations/stereotypes are a shorcut to low quality discussion, especially if their use happens to combine with poor technical/methodical understanding. If one is in a mindset that would still need quite a bit of actual meaningful and constructive discussion (on the implications of choosing a particular DAW, regarding a given professional's workflow, methods of composition, project structure etc. etc.), in good spirits, to actually learn about these things, no matter which DAW was in question - and yet what actually emerges is just confrontative and poorly argued forum discussion from square one - then trying to steer it all into a more constructive direction is pretty frustrating. I've come to the conclusion, most of the time it's better to avoid places that exude that vibe to begin with, and stay creative in your craft and profession, with fellow creators and artists who share said more positive approaches. To that end, personally I tend to stay away from here these days
(Singling out Reaper as the environment that brings about "totally horrible, amateurish sounding music with no sense of musicality, harmony, melodic structure, rhythm or groove at all" is still pretty baffling, even with the low standard of discussion established before that, haha )