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Who uses, recommends or left REAPER, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

6 people

Sean Barrett
Game developer, formerly of Looking Glass Studios, and author of the stb single-file open source C libraries.
loved

I use REAPER, the only DAW software I've found which embraces the capabilities of digital, avoiding imitating analog production where it's unnecessary.

His Uses This interview, on the gear and software he uses for programming and music.

2015-11-26·usesthis.com ↗

Zed Shaw
Programmer, writer and musician; author of the Learn Code the Hard Way books and of Mongrel, the Ruby web server.
loved

For post-production though I use REAPER which is seriously the best $60 bucks I ever spent. The REAPER forums alone are worth that much with all the advice they have.

His Uses This interview, mostly about the guitar and recording rig he writes and plays with.

2011-10-21·usesthis.com ↗

Douglas Rushkoff
Media theorist and writer; author of Program or Be Programmed and Team Human, and host of the Team Human podcast.
liked

I record a lot of things using Audio Hijack Pro or even Audacity. I do most all audio I want to work right in REAPER.

His Uses This interview, on writing, audio gear and his reasons for leaving software behind.

2011-10-24·usesthis.com ↗

John Romero
Game designer and programmer, co-creator of Doom and Quake; co-founder of Romero Games.
uses

I use a ton of software. Here's a list: Xcode, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Sublime Text, Corona SDK, Unity, Final Cut Pro, Versions, Perforce, VMWare Fusion, Messages, REAPER, Transmit, Coda, Dropbox, Skype, Dashlane, Slack, Terminal, Assembla, Airmail, Spark Mail, Google Docs, Pixelmator, Pixen, TexturePacker, Particle Designer, Tiled, iTunes + Music + Match, Screenium, Steam, Twitter, Facebook.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: his game-development machines and software.

2017-06-22·usesthis.com ↗

Justin Frankel
Software developer; wrote Winamp and now works on the REAPER digital audio workstation.
usestheir own

For recording I use REAPER (naturally).

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: the machines and dev tools behind REAPER.

2012-10-02·usesthis.com ↗

Adam Wathan
Full-stack developer and creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
mixed

It's basically the Vim of audio editing software, so I wouldn't recommend it if you don't have the time and energy to heavily invest in customizing it for your workflow, but I can move like lightning in this thing.

His /uses page covering every part of his setup; the page discloses that a few of the links are affiliate links. Page carries no date; 2019-08-20 is its first Internet Archive snapshot.

2019-08-20·adamwathan.me ↗

What they also use

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

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