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Cockos, Inc. Type Public Industry Technology Founded 2004 Founder(s) Justin Frankel Headquarters San Francisco, California Area served Digital audio production Key people Justin Frankel, Christophe Thibault Products REAPER, NINJAM, Jesusonic Website Cockos 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." [1]
The company is most notable for their digital audio workstation software REAPER.
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History
Cockos was found in 2004 by Justin Frankel after his departure from Nullsoft. The company name stems from mis-hearing a quote from the movie Office Space[2]. While the company also develops small software tools often released under an open source license[3] 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[4]. Following up in 2005 they released the online music jam software NINJAM under the GPL[5] later that year the release of their flagship product REAPER followed.
Staff
Cockos currently has three programmers.[6] Justin Frankel 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.
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