Multitrack audio and MIDI recorder for your Mac OS X

REAPER for Mac

REAPER for Mac

  -  27.51 MB  -  Trial
  • Latest Version

    REAPER 7.59 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

    reaper759_universal.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    8267712eb1664313c1ad507905e72389

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:

Import:
- fix behavior when creating track folders for imported directories and also importing multi-track MIDI
- only sort imported files by filename when creating track folders for imported directories
- when importing directories, ignore non-media file types (track templates, etc)
- when importing multiple files, only prompt for how to arrange files when importing arrangeable files (not track templates, etc) 

Actions:
- improve actions that depend on grid spacing (navigate grid, split on grid, etc) when grid spacing does not align with measure length
- improve behavior of 'Item: Set snap offset to nearest grid line' 

Media explorer:
- fix possible crash when switching preview audio while still playing back
- fix retaining custom channel mapping when seeking with channel map dialog open and crossfade enabled
- support shorter time selection length relative to media length 

Grid:
- when splitting on grid and grid is set to frames, split at every frame regardless of zoom level 

macOS:
- make list view and tree view row spacing/margins more consistent across Intel and Universal builds 

mp3:
- support all encoding q-values from 0-9 

Project backups:
- when opening .rpp-bak files from Backups/ or AutoSaves/, resolve relative filenames from the parent folder as needed 

Timecode:
- fix timecode settings dialog appearance when no audio system is selected 

Windows:
- correctly handle right-side Windows key as a keyboard modifier