Multitrack audio and MIDI recorder for your Mac OS X

REAPER for Mac

REAPER for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    REAPER 7.73 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

    reaper773_universal.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    da15a9ffb4f3f146ab9a5894a042cd0e

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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  • REAPER 7.73 Screenshots

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What's new in this version:

Sample edits:
- add action to delete sample edits or set sample edits to zero
- add action to set sample edits to a straight line or an interpolated curve
- allow sample edit scale dialog to remain open while toggling playback, etc
- automatically disable rectified peaks when zoomed-in on items with sample edits enabled
- fix action to set sample values in a straight line when peaks display does not exactly match source sample values
- improve appearance of edited samples when zoomed out
- improve setting sample to interpolated curve
- limit sample edit values to [-1,1], regardless of item volume or pre-FX envelopes
- refresh display after canceling sample scale dialog or bypassing sample edits
- sample edit actions that depend on time selection require the time selection to be entirely on-screen
- support editing sample edits within razor edit bounds
- support editing when peaks display mode is mono or take channel mode is mono downmix (channels are edited identically)
- when running sample edit actions, automatically activate sample edits if zoomed in far enough
- with sample edit scale dialog open, changing time selection or razor edit area changes the target samples for the dialog 

Render:
- avoid saving zero-length partially rendered files when user requests saving partially rendered files after canceling render
- fix .aif render settings readability
- prevent creating tiny time selections in render preview window
- prevent possible crash when rendering multiple regions, canceling render, and prompting to save incompletely rendered files
- support automatically incrementing up to 100,000 files in a single render (increase from 10,000)
- when previewing render, seek immediately on mouse click or time selection change 

Actions:
- add actions to move items/envelope points left/right to grid
- add action to show resolved render path in explorer/finder
- fix undo messages for various media item move actions
- improve behavior of envelope point nudge actions when points are selected in automation items and constrained by item boundaries 

JSFX:
- add MIDI Choke Group processor
- fix pin-passthrough bug for analysis-only FX (7.70 regression) 

MIDI editor:
- add actions to move/resize notes, snapping to grid
- add actions to move CC events left/right to grid
- add action to shrink item to last event 

Razor edits:
- add preference to clear or preserve existing media item/envelope selection when creating razor edits
- change minimum razor edit length from 1ms to about 40us (same as minimum time selection length)
- do not clear razor edits on right mouse click 

Track grouping:
- support automatically grouping folder/child tracks or folder sibling tracks, as separate settings
- support grouped razor edits on hidden tracks 

Group manager:
- improve window resizing behavior 

Linux:
- allow manually overriding JACK realtime settings, may help some pw-jack users 

macOS:
- fix font size issue with ReaLearn/other extensions (7.70 regression) 

MIDI:
- fix possible peak display glitch with looped items that have missing note-offs 

ReaSurround:
- fix possible incorrect output in certain custom many-speaker setups 

Rendering:
- improve temporary file use when rendering with postprocessing 

Web interfaces:
- fix fancier.html potential race condition on load, other minor fixes 

Windows:
- revert UTF-8 auto-hooking change from 7.70 which caused issues with various extensions