He makes Reaper
>You may use the discounted license if:
> - You are an individual, and REAPER is only for your personal use, or
> - You are an individual or business using REAPER commercially, and yearly gross revenue does not exceed USD $20,000, or
> - You are an educational or non-profit organization.
Oh, it actually seems pretty reasonable. At least as someone not involved in the DAW space. $60 for professional grade tools on a non-subscription looks like it's comfortable for someone to get into this.
My license is good for 2 major versions (so for me, up to, but not including 7.0). So when 7.0 comes out I will gladly pay $60 again.
* Recording my practice to listen back * Recording music just for fun * Using it to play back songs I want to learn at different tempos and speeds (I play guitar at a church so this comes in very handy).
For example: I use Ozone to do a quick and dirty master on songs. The tool suggests running it on the loudest part of the audio. SWS provides an action that moves the playhead to the loudest part of a clip so there's no guesswork.
If you think 60 bucks for a professional non-subscription heavy-duty media tool is good, DaVinci Resolve is going to blow your tiny wee mind - you can use the same tools they use to make stuff for Netflix, right there on your desktop, for *free*. If you want the extra features of the paid one (maybe you want to cut 8K video, or you really need neural network rescaling, or something) it's about 300 dollars. And that's it, that's you - you own a licence, it's yours, forever, including the upgrades.
At the money that Reaper costs, it's worth buying a copy just to help the folks out.
It is one of the few “professional” applications I’ve felt comfortable buying for extremely light hobby usage.