Multitrack audio and MIDI recorder for your Mac OS X

REAPER for Mac

REAPER for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    REAPER 7.72 LATEST

  • Review by

    Sophia Jones

  • Operating System

    macOS 10.15 Catalina or later

  • User Rating

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  • Author / Product

    Cockos Incorporated / External Link

  • Filename

    reaper772_universal.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    8634f2c5ac67ced75c687f55d62c664f

REAPER for Mac is a complete digital audio production application, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset.

REAPER supports a vast range of hardware, digital formats and plugins, and can be comprehensively extended, scripted and modified.

The app's full, flexible feature set and renowned stability have found a home wherever digital audio is used: commercial and home studios, broadcast, location recording, education, science and research, sound design, game development, and more.

From mission-critical professional environments to students' laptops, there is a single version of the tool, fully featured with no artificial limitations. You can evaluate REAPER for macOS in full for 60 days.

The applicense is affordably priced and DRM-free.

Features and Highlights
  • Efficient, fast to load, and tightly coded. Can be installed and run from a portable or network drive.
  • Powerful audio and MIDI routing with multichannel support throughout.
  • 64-bit internal audio processing. Import, record to, and render to many media formats, at almost any bit depth and sample rate.
  • Thorough MIDI hardware and software support.
  • Support for thousands of third-party plug-in effects and virtual instruments, including VST, VST3, AU, DX, and JS.
  • Hundreds of studio-quality effects for processing audio and MIDI, and built-in tools for creating new effects.
  • Automation, modulation, grouping, VCA, surround, macros, OSC, scripting, control surfaces, custom skins and layouts.
How to Use
  • Install REAPER by dragging it to Applications
  • Launch REAPER and configure audio device settings
  • Create a new project and add tracks
  • Import audio or MIDI files to tracks
  • Use FX browser to add plugins to tracks
  • Record audio or MIDI with input monitoring
  • Edit clips with tools like split, trim, and stretch
  • Mix using volume, pan, and automation
  • Render or export the final mix to audio file
System Requirements

macOS 10.5 or later

Intel or Apple Silicon processor

2 GB RAM minimum (4 GB or more recommended)

100 MB of hard drive space

CoreAudio-compatible audio interface recommended

PROS
  • Lightweight and fast performance
  • Highly customizable interface
  • Full-featured without restrictions
  • Frequent and stable updates
  • Excellent plugin and format support
CONS
  • Outdated default UI design
  • Limited built-in virtual instruments
  • No score editor for traditional notation
  • Requires manual setup for some features
Note: 60 days trial version.

Also Available: Download REAPER for Windows

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What's new in this version:

Region manager:
- export marker/region times with more precision
- add entry to Options menu to display and copy out total length of selected regions
- improve control show/hide behavior when resizing
- reduce listview flickering when running actions 

Render:
- support optionally embedding hidden regions/markers when rendering wav, wavpack
- add menu item to replace existing preset with current settings
- improve appearance of VU meters when in hidpi mode
- resolve $region wildcards correctly when rendering multiple regions with the same start/end times 

Grouping:
- smaller TCP indicators for automatic media/razor edit grouping
- support automatically grouping folder/child tracks for media and razor edits (edits affect matched items on sibling and child tracks) 

Metadata:
- do not display '(mixed values)' in Project Render Metadata dialog when values differ only because some values are missing
- update ASWG to version 1.1 

ReaScript:
- add AddRegionOrMarker(), which returns a ProjectMarker* rather than an ambiguous index number (prefer this to AddProjectMarker/AddProjectMarker2)
- fix return value of AddProjectMarker(), AddProjectMarker2() on error 

Sample edits:
- disable sample edit menu item when media source is incompatible
- fix mouse targeting when media item take volume/pan are applied 

Scrub:
- avoid interrupting recent one-shot scrubs when moving edit cursor via various actions/API
- improve behavior when initiating a scrub by moving the edit cursor via action/surface
- one-shot scrub option supports various trim/move item to edit cursor, nudge/shift time selection actions 

Grid:
- fix potential hang if script sets project grid division ridiculously small 

MIDI:
- add Export Project MIDI setting to embed hidden markers 

MP3 decoder:
- fix intermittent performance issue (7.70 regression) 

Peaks:
- fix sample-level display issues with volume/pan and pre-FX track envelopes and take envelopes 

Project bay:
- fix possible crash when removing FX from containers 

Track templates:
- add option to insert at end of project (rather than at selected track) 

Video:
- redraw video frame when restoring minimized docked window on Windows, etc