Malcolm, just try to think of this with every update that makes (part of) your work an anachronism -
when we in this forum will all be dead and gone, one of your grandchildren will say to his of her kid: you know, your grandfather was the first man in the world who wrote a REAPER manual; yes, the very software that all the bands you love so much use for recording their CD's!
(I only doubt if CD's will still be around at that time...
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