| 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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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.
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.