Cockos
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Cockos, Inc is an American digital audio
technology company founded in 2004 by Justin Frankel
. The company's stated goal is: "to develop software sustainably while preventing profit rationale from forcing engineering compromises. By doing so, we can keep our product visions intact, giving maximum benefit to our users."
The company is most notable for their digital audio workstation software REAPER
.
after his departure from Nullsoft
. The company name stems from mis-hearing a quote from the movie Office Space
.
While the company also develops small software tools often released under an open source
license its main focus is on music software. They released their first music software product, a programmable effects processing software called Jesusonic on December 21, 2004. Following up in 2005 they released the online music jam software NINJAM
under the GPL later that year the release of their flagship product REAPER
followed.
is an American programmer best known for his work on the Winamp
media player application. Christophe Thibault is a French programmer who was the founder of the Kaillera
and K-Meleon
projects. He joined Cockos in 2005. John Schwartz joined in 2008; he is the author of many audio plug-ins, notably a virtual analogue synthesizer called Olga.
Digital audio
Digital audio is sound reproduction using pulse-code modulation and digital signals. Digital audio systems include analog-to-digital conversion , digital-to-analog conversion , digital storage, processing and transmission components...
technology company founded in 2004 by Justin Frankel
Justin Frankel
Justin Frankel is an American computer programmer best known for his work on the Winamp media player application and for inventing the gnutella peer-to-peer network...
. The company's stated goal is: "to develop software sustainably while preventing profit rationale from forcing engineering compromises. By doing so, we can keep our product visions intact, giving maximum benefit to our users."
The company is most notable for their digital audio workstation software REAPER
REAPER
REAPER is a digital audio workstation created by Cockos. It is distributed with an uncrippled evaluation license with a nag screen explaining the license cost. It is currently available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X...
.
History
Cockos was found in 2004 by Justin FrankelJustin Frankel
Justin Frankel is an American computer programmer best known for his work on the Winamp media player application and for inventing the gnutella peer-to-peer network...
after his departure from Nullsoft
Nullsoft
Nullsoft, Inc. is a software house founded in Sedona, Arizona in 1997 by Justin Frankel. Its most known products include the Winamp media player and the SHOUTcast MP3 streaming media server. In recent years, their open source installer system, NSIS, has also risen in popularity as a widely used...
. The company name stems from mis-hearing a quote from the movie Office Space
Office Space
Office Space is a 1999 American comedy film satirizing work life in a typical 1990s software company. Written and directed by Mike Judge, it focuses on a handful of individuals fed up with their jobs portrayed by Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Gary Cole, David Herman, Ajay Naidu, and Diedrich...
.
While the company also develops small software tools often released under an open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
license its main focus is on music software. They released their first music software product, a programmable effects processing software called Jesusonic on December 21, 2004. Following up in 2005 they released the online music jam software NINJAM
Ninjam
NINJAM stands for Novel Intervallic Network Jamming Architecture for Music.Creating music naturally relies on players' ability to keep time with each other. Latency between players causes natural time keeping to be thrown awry...
under the GPL later that year the release of their flagship product REAPER
REAPER
REAPER is a digital audio workstation created by Cockos. It is distributed with an uncrippled evaluation license with a nag screen explaining the license cost. It is currently available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X...
followed.
Staff
Cockos currently has three programmers. Justin FrankelJustin Frankel
Justin Frankel is an American computer programmer best known for his work on the Winamp media player application and for inventing the gnutella peer-to-peer network...
is an American programmer best known for his work on the Winamp
Winamp
Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp...
media player application. Christophe Thibault is a French programmer who was the founder of the Kaillera
Kaillera
Kaillera is middleware designed to aid networked multiplayer play for emulators. The word "Kaillera" is the verlan of the French word racaille which is used in reference to "bad people".-History:...
and K-Meleon
K-Meleon
K-Meleon is a web browser for the Microsoft Windows platform. Based on the same Gecko layout engine as Mozilla Firefox, K-Meleon uses native Windows application programming interface to create the user interface, instead of using Mozilla's cross-platform XML User Interface Language layer, and as...
projects. He joined Cockos in 2005. John Schwartz joined in 2008; he is the author of many audio plug-ins, notably a virtual analogue synthesizer called Olga.