Multitrack audio and MIDI recorder for your Mac OS X

REAPER for Mac

REAPER for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    REAPER 7.77 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

    reaper777_universal.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    e1c72ef179bee6ff691c2725788b71bf

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:

Default media path:
- do not create default path unless it being written to
- allow overriding via default_media_path= in reaper.ini
- use correct localized Documents directory on macOS for 'REAPER Media'
- use 'REAPER Media' subdirectory for portable installs 

Grid:
- fix swing snap with offscreen linear tempo changes
- snap to grid at any distance obeys grid snap when very zoomed in (previously allowed unsnapped modification at 25% of view size) 

MIDI editor:
- improve behavior when creating note via drag using 'Insert note, drag to move' mouse modifier
- improve click vs drag detection for very fast drags
- improve X-scroll behavior via mousewheel or using scrollbar buttons 

Mixer:
- alt+shift/alt+ctrl+shift click on FX/sends toggles bypass/mute for that slot on all selected tracks/all visible tracks
- fix possible display glitches with master track metering 

ReaScript:
- extend gfx_setcursor to support base64:xyz cursor strings (base64 .cur files up to 8kb in length)
- fix issues with GetSetTrackSendInfo/RemoveTrackSend APIs (7.75 regression) 

Sample edits:
- hide sample edits when item has forced spectrogram view
- fix actions to delete all sample edits 

Windows:
- fix apply button behavior in audio device configuration
- fix unicode localization for MIDI quantize grid size 

Actions window:
- don't show full path for ReaScripts in the default path 

Batch converter:
- support pasting converter settings from clipboard 

Default themes:
- change marquee fill blend mode, to prevent performance cost during marquee drag preview 

MIDI quantize:
- constrain output to source length 

Regions:
- add mouse modifier checkbox to move edit cursor to region start when clicking body of region 

Render:
- in HTML render statistics, highlight region/marker when hovering with the mouse, hide region/marker lines otherwise 

Screensets:
- include mixer scroll position in track view screensets when 'Track scroll positions' checked 

Secondary record path:
- allow relative paths 

Sends:
- when drag/drop creating sends to FX in sidechain mode, automatically disable MIDI send 

Track panels:
- default secondary panel size to non-hidden for new installs 

Track templates:
- importing template via file-browsing respects insert-at-end preference 

View menu:
- add 'Track Panels' menu item