Most popular music software?

[Art Evans]

See

http://www.digitalmusicdoctor.com/popularity.htm
and
http://www.digitalmusicdoctor.com/po...background.htm

I suspect that they are not even considering inclusion of Reaper in their survey. It would be interesting if they did!

[Terry]

Originally Posted by Art Evans

See

http://www.digitalmusicdoctor.com/popularity.htm
and
http://www.digitalmusicdoctor.com/po...background.htm

I suspect that they are not even considering inclusion of Reaper in their survey. It would be interesting if they did!

Yes, but it wouldn't mean very much - they've left out several high quality names.

Regards,

Terry

[Leumas]

Originally Posted by Art Evans

See

http://www.digitalmusicdoctor.com/popularity.htm
and
http://www.digitalmusicdoctor.com/po...background.htm

I suspect that they are not even considering inclusion of Reaper in their survey. It would be interesting if they did!

wouldn't better science be to look at sales figures?
Web searches don't mean squat in the popularity listings! When I do a search for Sonar, it is usually because it is broken and I am looking for help.
However I never do a websearch for Reaper as I have all the relevant sites (.fm and the forum) bookmarked.

bah! stupid survey if you ask me.

/gets angry at bad science

[maa]

Crap survey - means what they want it to mean....

[Amether]

Sales of course might not be entirely accurate either, due to the large number of pirated versions floating around... I imagine the names that were left out were simply less searched for...?

But are there any ideas as to the number of Reaper users?

[Art Evans]

Some download sites give numbers of downloads but I suspect these are cumulative rather than per version, so they don't give much of a picture.

[chip mcdonald]

The major problem with that is that it's only showing the popularity of those items as search terms in search engines.

If PT is at the top of the list it doesn't neccessarily mean the reason people are searching for "Pro Tools" is because theres X many users; it could be 1 guy with 20,000 instances of a problem, or 20,000 users with different unique problems. The point being, if people are searching on those terms because there's a problem it could say more about the utility of a program than just "the Popularity" of it. It doesn't mean 20,000 people think the program is "great".

It's also not tied to any definitive sampling of a known user base, so it's pretty useless statistically as well.