Reaper 5?

[Orbit-50]

Was a bit worried to see the interview as sometimes I have a hard time to use software if the creator/s are dicks independent if the software is good or not as I see the persons face in my mind every time I use the software later!
Luckily I can continue to use Reaper as the guy seems like a great guy!
Ahhh sweet mental issues...

Nothing wrong with that man. I feel the same about stuff like that.

.-.

[egbert]

Was a bit worried to see the interview as sometimes I have a hard time to use software if the creator/s are dicks independent if the software is good or not as I see the persons face in my mind every time I use the software later!

Seriously? I mean, yeah, Justin seems a very nice guy, but i couldn't care less about the people who wrote the software, if the software suits me. Reaper never did and never will, no matter what nice of a guy Justin Frankel is. Tbh i find some of his views a bit naive, and only possible if you have a sh**load of money, and don't have to care about your income. But hey, it's cool that rather sitting on an island sipping his cocktail his goal is to make software he's convinced of, so kudos to him.

Funny thing is , his sh**load of money came as a direct consequence of Justin following his own philosophy. He built things for his own use and pleasure - not to get rich. He accepted said sh**load of folding stuff when it was offered but found the compromises of corporate USA to be disagreeable in the end and went back to doing what he wanted to do and following his own philosophy.

There are lots of parallels to this I think.

[Mercado_Negro]

It's OUT

http://www.cockos.com/reaper/index.php

[Tricky-Loops]

[bbreakz]

thanks for the link

[Saukar30]

Is v5 a paid update or free if I purchased v4?

[EvilDragon]

Free if you purchased v4. You're good till v5.99. v6, you will have to get a new license.

[Saukar30]

Cool!!!! Thx, ED

[Tonberry]

I agree with his philosophy too and believe the world would be a completely different place if more of us would follow.

It's true that when someone lives in a place with no perspectives with a shitty job, dropping whatever plate-scrubbing job he got because dreams need to be followed may be a critically bad move on his part. To people with none-to-lowish income this doesn't apply, but in the Western world majority of us won't die of starvation unless we're complete slobs (and even then some countries like Sweden can give that slob a quality life just for being Swedish). We can be braver in trying things that we think might work. Every great success story starts that way.

More specifically, I think he was talking about "corporate decisions", direction in which company politics go. The single biggest mistake corporation can make is to go away from the most practical/intuitive/ergonomic/inventive user experience to "read the market charts and apply company strategy accordingly" attitude. This is always when things start to go bad.

We live in a strange world where just plainly creating a product that tries to be as good as possible is something that distinguishes that product from all the rest. If I understood Justin correctly, he knows that and capitalizes on it without it being another cynical "market strategy", just the need to create something of high quality and practical to people. Healthy, proper life motivation, really. "Go live and make yourself useful".

[soulone82]

It's OUT

http://www.cockos.com/reaper/index.php

[LawrenceF]

Re: Justin and all that stuff...

If you listen to what he actually said, it was pure "luck", his words. It is certainly not the case that doing things you like to do always pays off like that, it's really more the case that it just happened to him, and maybe didn't happen to another 100 guys like him. And of course, lots of guys do things fully intending to get rich and do get rich also.

Having said that, you obviously often do need some level of talent or skill to fall into that particular kind of luck, it doesn't happen magically.

I've personally come to like and really admire the guy and I've never met him. Reading various thoughts of his over the years he's consistent. Whether you agree with his philosophy or not, it doesn't change and it's not an act, it's easily apparent that's just really and honestly who he is.

But some people do seem to worship him.

[egbert]

A young programmer guy here in Oz wanted to write a successful software product in the early 90s. He did some research and decided a software product for managing business finances would be the best bet. He spent two years working on it and at some point decided he should make a web page for his stuff - since the internet had just opened for businesses. This was early days and most sites were directly coded in a text editor with HTML but he thought it would be handy to have an application that did most of the spade work for him so he spent a couple of days on a quick application for web page creation.

He put it up online for a modest sum and the downloads absolutely exploded. By accident, something he created to fill his own need fitted the needs of many, many others and he suddenly had lots of money and attention. His "accidental" product was just the right thing at the right time as there were no adequate substitutes and the thing he spent two years toiling over "to get rich" - I don't think that went anywhere.

[Numanoid]

Still supporting Windows XP, that is a big plus

[LawrenceF]

His "accidental" product was just the right thing at the right time as there were no adequate substitutes

It happens. Sometimes the stars just align for people. It doesn't really prove anything except that it "can" happen, not that it "will" ever happen to you or I or the next guy.

Doing what you really love (if possible) is a really good path for personal happiness not necessarily riches. If the latter also happens, that's a really nice additional benefit for sure.

If you look at many self made wealthy people (not trust find babies ) who have turned what they love to do into piles of money, they usually started doing it at a pretty young age, which is also partly luck, to find your "thing" early on.

[arkmabat]

Anything regarding pitch/time correction yet? Reaper is a very good bang for your buck but I'm kind of waiting on that.