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Old 11-11-2007, 06:28 AM   #30
Lawrence
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Originally Posted by pipelineaudio View Post
FWIW PT cant read or write OMF without an add on that costs more than the EDL convert Pro app you add to reaper

Id say best bet is to buy the (reaper inspired?) PT USB Dongle for 250 and say "yeah, we have pro tools"
I agree. I have the original MBox just so I can say that.

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Originally Posted by olzzon View Post
Fact is, if Reaper cost 2500$ it would have the status of the others majors.
Nothing to do specifically with Reaper but I'm not sure about that. Those applications didn't start out costing $1800 or $2500. They kinda grew up to that point I think. Reaper will also. "Grow" it's perceptions in the industry that is.

Here's a Internet post from 1995. SAW listed for $599 which was a good price considering what it did... which wasn't much compared to what daws do now. He was marketing it to people that would pay 30k+ for tape machines and 50k or much more for mixing consoles. N____o and SAW and PTHD are targeting similar higher end pro users.

If Reaper had existed back then exactly as it does now, it probably could have demanded $5k easily and been worth every penny.

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Software Audio Workshop (SAW) lists for $599. Here are some of its features:
* 4 track stereo playback
* Automated mixing (remembers your level changes and replays them)
* Play back and record simultaneously on sound cards that support it
* Non-destructive playlist editing
This is a great feature folks. It's basically a pattern based
sequencer for your audio data. You select a region of a sound file
and then create a sequence of that and other regions playing back
at different times along a track. You don't need to mangle your
soundfile to move stuff around.
* Backup your sound to audio DAT in real time (fast compared to some
backup systems)
All of your sound files are recorded to the tape and a file
containing information about those sound files is saved on one
disk. Even if you don't have a digital connection to your DAT
recorder, the loss in signal quality in going from your sound
card to your DAT recorder should be minimal.
* Does everything really fast. This program appears to have been
coded to minimize the amount of time you have to wait for the
program to do its thing. Everything is really responsive and
quick.
As an application gains more and more acceptance from working pros in the industry (music, radio, video) you can gradually raise the price. Reaper will cost $5-600 or more one day I think and still be a great value. It's worth more than the $250 that it costs already.

SAW had a big headstart on building those industry perceptions and is one of the most expensive daws out there.

P.S. You'd be hard-pressed to find a Sequoia user who feels he paid too much for it. It's a $3k application that has features that I don't even know exactly what they are for, but the users who use them do. Like a Digasystem Interface ... http://www.samplitude.com/eng/seq/digas.html I have no idea what that is.

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