Multitrack audio and MIDI recorder for your Mac OS X

REAPER for Mac

REAPER for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    REAPER 7.47 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

    reaper747_universal.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    f6a9b16a5b7b82e2f5603231f34c3194

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 7.47 Screenshots

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    REAPER 7.47 Screenshot 1

What's new in this version:

Render:
- display true peak in render statistics if setting is enabled to display it, or if normalizing or brickwall limiting to true peak, not if calculating true peak only for the purpose of embedding loudness metadata
- fix description of pad vs fade order in postprocessing help
- fix tiny rendered file length discrepancies that can occur in certain circumstances
- improve preview playback of recently-rendered items, avoiding possibly dropping samples at preview start
- support save/load of RPP with render trim threshold set under -100dB
- when rendering to mp3 and brickwall limiting, display final statistics for the pre-encoded signal

MIDI editor:
- fix actions to edit notes by grid
- actions that adjust event value/position based on midi CC/wheel obey MIDI event filter
- insert note at mouse cursor action will allow extending non-looped items
- when opening editor, ensure the clicked-on media item is visible in the arrange view

Localization:
- fix drawing of wet/dry knob UTF-8 text
- allow localization of various accessibility labels in ReaPlugs

macOS:
- remove problematic option to partially-disable retina drawing for classic themes
- improve mixer drawing performance when using Metal, retina displays, and visual spacers

Metadata:
- fix embedding BWF loudness metadata with certain settings
- fix embedding BWF loudness metadata when file is silent

Mouse modifiers:
- fix default razor edit cursor (7.46 regression)
- fix seeking when clicking in empty areas and left-drag is mapped to marquee/marquee zoom/razor edit selection/etc (7.46 regression)
- shift/control + right click no longer shows context menu, restoring 7.45 behavior

PDC auto-bypass:
- fix support for MIDI overdub/replace modes
- add option to only auto-bypass PDC FX while recording (useful but causes glitches when punching in/out)

Solo bus:
- fix solo bus when trivial tracks are soloed
- fix incorrect audio output after disabling solo bus while a track is soloed
- add option to ignore solo on child tracks when the parent track is soloed

Accessibility:
- improve accessibility labels for ReaVerb IR generator fields

Envelopes:
- add actions to hide active envelope, show previous/next envelope on the same track (cycle through envelopes)

Help:
- fix click/action mappings in generated html mouse map/keyboard binding document

Notation editor:
- fix horizontal zoom when MIDI timebase is set to time and editor is wide

Parallel FX:
- fix certain instances where some VST3 can result in untouched channels being zeroed out

ReaScript:
- allow adding spectral edit frequency points with very close timing values

Screensets:
- fix updating display when loading track view screensets

Spectral peaks:
- fix incorrect display with certain channel modes

Takes:
- action and mouse modifier to select take from take list affects grouped items

Track renaming:
- improve auto-scroll behavior (7.46 regression)

Vertical zoom:
- keep top of zoom-centered track visible when tracks are pinned, if possible

Visual spacers:
- fix hit testing of visual spacers in certain instances