REAPER is basically a Vegas Pro clone. As one of the early Vegas devs and a Mac user, REAPER feels like home to me. It’s solid, and it’s my go-to for time-focused audio editing when I need to move quickly.

However, as an old Scream Tracker user, seeing the sequence composition model alive today is a real treat. An entire lineage of loop timeline products owes its heritage to sequencers driving samplers, and it’s a really useful way to think about the macro structure of music.

Somewhere in my garage there’s a pile of floppies full of mods waiting to be listened to.