Is REAPER the current best long term choice?

[Michael L]

What do you think Justin will make of reaper if he retires?

Most KVR users will retire long before Justin, who is only 45.

I don't think age has anything to do with it in this particular context, he could have retired 20 years ago if he wanted to!

Not at all because "this particular context" is the entirely imaginary world created by this thread!!
So anything we want can have "anything to do with it" including age, astrological sign, nature or nurture.

[audiojunkie]

What do you think Justin will make of reaper if he retires?

Most KVR users will retire long before Justin, who is only 45.

Sadly, true! I've got 15 years left, if I don't die first.

depending on where you live, and / or your occupation, you can be even younger than Justin and still have "just" 15 years left until your official retirement.

what's the retirement age in your area btw?

here in germany it's 67, but i wouldn't be surprised by the time that it's my turn if this had not been raised to 69 or even 70

I live in the US, and it’s exactly the same for me. However, I suspect I may not get to retire and I’ll have to work until the very end.

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

There's a website where you can pose questions directly to Justin if anyone's really that curious and needs to be that up in his business about his retirement and succession plans for Reaper. Succession seems to be such a hot topic lately they made a whole show about it.

https://www.askjf.com/

[vurt]

There's a website where you can pose questions directly to Justin if anyone's really that curious and needs to be that up in his business about his retirement and succession plans for Reaper. Succession seems to be such a hot topic lately they made a whole show about it.

https://www.askjf.com/

can we pitch business ideas for investment, like dragons den?

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

There's a website where you can pose questions directly to Justin if anyone's really that curious and needs to be that up in his business about his retirement and succession plans for Reaper. Succession seems to be such a hot topic lately they made a whole show about it.

https://www.askjf.com/

can we pitch business ideas for investment, like dragons den?

The site says no reasonable question unanswered. So what do you think?

[syntonica]

There's a website where you can pose questions directly to Justin if anyone's really that curious and needs to be that up in his business about his retirement and succession plans for Reaper. Succession seems to be such a hot topic lately they made a whole show about it.

https://www.askjf.com/

can we pitch business ideas for investment, like dragons den?

The site says no reasonable question unanswered. So what do you think?

Better test it first. Ask an unreasonable question.

[ghettosynth]

To get some insight into Justin's retirement plans just search for retire.

[enroe]

Life itself is unpredictable. Illnesses or other strokes of fate can change your life
from one day to the next. This also applies to "retirement".

But what can be said with certainty about any "long-term security": The fewer
protective mechanisms and activation arias there are, the more securely the
software will run in the future.

Just imagine: You want to remix a 10 year old song. Your client (or even yourself)
demands this. Then you have to install the old software from 10 years ago - and at
the latest with all the protection activations you get stuck.

[ghettosynth]

Life itself is unpredictable. Illnesses or other strokes of fate can change your life
from one day to the next. This also applies to "retirement".

Of course, I'm not suggesting otherwise; however, people were enquiring about his motivations and you get some insight if you search for retire.

[jancivil]

“Is REAPER the current best long term choice?”

for whom? It’s absurd to act as though this is an objective matter.

[dayjob]

“Is REAPER the current best long term choice?”

for whom? It’s absurd to act as though this is an objective matter.

it's kinda crazy. what does "long term" mean? 5 years.. 30 years? as if technology isn't going to keep moving forward and changing "long term".

time would be better spent using the tools one has instead of worrying about if they'll be around for the "long term".

[Michael L]

"Is REAPER the current best long term choice?"

What about long-term you?

Will you need REAPER much later in your life?
Will you find a better DAW or even go DAWless?
Will you be dead, diseased, or climate changed?

No one can rationally predict the answer.
Thus it is a perfect KVR topic!

[kidslow]

In my opinion, learning and becoming comfortable in multiple DAWs is the best long term choice. Reaper being an essential one of those.

That's the dumbest thing I've read this week (although it is only Monday). Being good at production has f**k-all to do with which software you use so learning more than one DAW is a complete waste of time, time you could better spend actually making something.

Was out of town on a production trip, so rather delayed response. Guess I might be offended if bones didn't have a well-earned reputation as a hyperbolic blowhard. I am sad though. Sad that bones is apparently incapable of learning new software and producing concurrently. We all have our limitations. I'm also sad that my point was completely missed ... at least by bones anyway. Seems that lfm got it and articulated a fairly comprehensive response.

[BONES]

Seriously, what's to f**king learn? You learn how the menus are organised and where things are in the GUI. You're not learning anything of value, not improving your skills in any meaningful way. And, for the record, in the last 4 or 5 years I've learned where everything is in Bitwig, Cubase and Studio One but there is nothing any of that taught me about music production. Not one, single thing. Probably the most useful thing I got out of it was that I never want to use Bitwig or Cubase again.

[jancivil]

In my opinion, learning and becoming comfortable in multiple DAWs is the best long term choice. Reaper being an essential one of those.

That's the dumbest thing I've read this week (although it is only Monday). Being good at production has f**k-all to do with which software you use so learning more than one DAW is a complete waste of time, time you could better spend actually making something.

also sad that my point was completely missed ... at least by bones anyway.

Have you actually READ your “point”? It’s a blank assertion with no reasoning in support of it whatsoever. I think calling it dumb gives it more credence than it warrants.