[goosinmouse]

Huh TIL! Reaper is considered by a lot of professionals to be the best all around DAW for those who are unaware of the audio world. It only really gets the respect it deserves though in the world of game audio design. If DAW's were compared to operating systems, logic/ableton would be macOS, Pro Tools would be Windows, and Reaper would be Linux.

[kennyloginz]

I guess you got into DAWs after me, but back in the day pro tools was mac, fruity loops was windows , and csound was Linux.

[locusofself]

Ardour was the first full-featured DAW for Linux IIRC. The author sometimes posts here on HN.

[locusofself]

I've made this same comparison between OS and DAWs and totally agree. I'm a reaper user for like 13 years now. I use it on a mac, though it's cool to see how far audio production on Linux has become, with both REAPER and now Bitwig available for Linux.

[misnome]

And the licensing is super reasonable. Purchasing gets you all through the current and next versions.

It is one of the few “professional” applications I’ve felt comfortable buying for extremely light hobby usage.