I have just found out that the developers of the Digital Audio Workstation software Reaper (reaper.fm) (Wikipedia) are looking into a Linux port.
In contrast to similar proprietary audio software like Cubase, Reaper is availabe at a comparatively low price ($60 for the non-commerial, $225 for the commercial license); according to the developers, in the interest of their users it comes without DRM protection.
Reaper has always had great support on Wine (see AppDB entry), and there is even a community-made live distro that comes with a trial version and is tuned for real-time.
However, Reaper users have frequently asked for a native Linux version in their forums, and now it looks like the developers are looking into it (see this thread). They are actually looking for developers to support their efforts:
This is great news for audio editing on Linux!
In contrast to similar proprietary audio software like Cubase, Reaper is availabe at a comparatively low price ($60 for the non-commerial, $225 for the commercial license); according to the developers, in the interest of their users it comes without DRM protection.
Reaper has always had great support on Wine (see AppDB entry), and there is even a community-made live distro that comes with a trial version and is tuned for real-time.
However, Reaper users have frequently asked for a native Linux version in their forums, and now it looks like the developers are looking into it (see this thread). They are actually looking for developers to support their efforts:
Not much new here, just making sure all of the latest updates work. Might spend some time integrating FreeType though, to get things progressing more (for fun).
If any GDK/GTK/QT/whatever hackers want to make some money, let us know, we'd be happy to put some cash bounties out for big libSwell functionality improvements...
If any GDK/GTK/QT/whatever hackers want to make some money, let us know, we'd be happy to put some cash bounties out for big libSwell functionality improvements...
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