Multitrack audio and MIDI recorder for your Mac OS X

REAPER for Mac

REAPER for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    REAPER 7.75 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

    reaper775_universal.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    64bb1e14f14ec3140a46c9e23f486a22

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:

FX:
- add option to allow empty slots in TCP/MCP FX lists, allow moving FX to particular slots in mixer/TCP
- add actions to toggle selected tracks FX bypass for slots 1-10
- fix parameter linking from bypass/wet/delta parameter 

Sends:
- allow moving sends/hardware outputs in TCP/MCP list, allow empty slots
- tint send level indicator in TCP/MCP by destination track color, if set 

Sample edits:
- add spectral repair actions, to replace contents of time selection with content extrapolated from existing audio surrounding the time selection (useful for fixing pops/clicks/dropouts)
- support bias, scale, balance, DC, fades when applying spectral repair (bias weights the preceding or following samples more when repairing)
- add versions of all sample edit actions that apply to the first selected item within the time selection
- add preference to automatically zoom to time selection when running sample edit actions
- commit sample edit scale or spectral repair changes unless the user explicitly cancels the dialog
- fix intermittent peaks drawing artifact
- fix possible misbehavior when media item length is a fraction of a sample longer than the source file
- improve initial focus, keyboard accessibility of scale and spectral repair windows 

MIDI editor:
- auto-scroll view when running note navigation actions
- expose key snap root/type in options menu
- fix quirks with actions to move CC events to grid
- fix quirks with actions to move/resize notes to grid
- improve behavior of various 'edge of note to edit cursor' actions with looped items, extending items
- update pre-quantized start/end times of notes when moving/trimming via edit cursor actions 

MIDI overdub/replace:
- add undo points with each pass when looped recording
- auto-readd new MIDI item when removing the recording item during record
- better handling of recording notes at end of loop
- fix addition of new item when first notes are encountered after running 'stop recording after X' actions
- improve behavior when starting recording immediately following a looped item
- improve behavior of note-on/off recording following a loop 

Navigator:
- adjust length for project maximum length if set, otherwise include markers/regions, or obey =START/=END markers
- do not display master track when pinned to top
- display envelope lanes, visual spacers
- fix cursor blink when on macOS and Metal is enabled
- fix zoom behavior when visual spacers/envelope lanes/fixed lanes are used
- improve appearance on macOS Retina displays 

ReaScript:
- add chain_index_to_slot and chain_slot_to_index for TrackFX_GetNamedConfigParm
- add GetSetProjectInfo DIRTY, to allow scripts to query/clear project-modified state
- automatically close render dialog after running GetSetProjectInfoString('RENDER_STATS') with 'calculate loudness of selected items source media'
- extend various TrackSend APIs to allow accessing sends/hardware outputs with UI ordering
- update GetThingFromPoint() to return item hit for mcp.sendlist, tcp.sendlist, etc 

FLAC:
- update to libFLAC v1.5.0
- support read/write of 32 bits per sample integer format 

JSFX:
- apply pin changes immediately when changing track channel count via API
- sequencer_megababy: add 'hold to erase' mode
- sequencer_megababy: fix display glitch when audio thread interrupts drawing 

Localization:
- add missing 'untitled', '-imported', various MIDI splash screen text
- support localizing macOS none/default device names
- support localizing mouse modifier/key binding html generation 

Media explorer:
- add action to show column configuration menu
- add sort configuration to menus 

MIDI input quantize:
- fix issues with rapid duplicate notes
- fix potential sorting issues when recording in normal input mode
- fix issues with overdub/replace recording on looped items, items with non-1.0 playrate 

Peaks settings window:
- fix position restoring issues
- update toolbar state when closing window 

Performance:
- improve performance when drawing media items on very small or collapsed tracks
- improve performance when using theme images that have large areas of full transparency 

Pin connector:
- fix initial sizing sometimes being larger than display
- improve mousewheel scroll behavior
- reopen at the same screen position/size as when the window was last closed 

ReaSurroundPan:
- apply Z-shape when playing back automation
- save/restore Z-shape parameter with project and presets 

Regions/markers:
- fix csv exported length in certain situations
- auto-scroll to selected marker in Region/Marker Manager when marker selection changes
- add preference to select region/marker when navigating via action or Jump To Time dialog 

Render:
- fix preserving metadata when rendering media items or razor edits as one file
- retain render statistics after running 'Calculate loudness of selected items source media via dry run render' 

Insert tracks:
- fix incorrect handling of collapsed folders (7.74 regression) 

Keyboard:
- when 'Use alternate keyboard section when recording' enabled, Alt sections will only be used if they were engaged during recording 

MIDI buses:
- make MIDI message sorting on secondary buses consistent with primary bus 

MIDI inline editor:
- improve appearance during continuous scrolling 

MIDI learn:
- display last MIDI value when assigning, to allow easily determination of CC relative mode 

Notation editor:
- fix option to prevent Alt key from opening menu 

Obscure feature:
- allow tweaking individual dialog control styles/etc via e.g. reaper-dlgtweaks-win.ini [DLG_285] 3=s+1 

Project settings:
- do not mark project dirty when clicking OK but nothing changed 

Routing matrix:
- fix indicator for stereo loopback outputs 

RS5k:
- refresh sample list when using save-as with copy media 

Spectral edits:
- prevent adding a new spectral edit for time selection if time selection is too short 

Spectrogram:
- adjust spectrogram display to account for sample edits when zoomed in 

Splash:
- disable animation by default, it's not 2015 any more 

Stretch markers:
- action to reset stretch marker correctly updates arrange view 

Subprojects:
- improve handling of multiple selected projects when opening via double-click 

Timecode:
- add action to detect LTC in items and move to detected position 

Toolbars:
- update metronome button instantly when toggling 

Track reordering:
- improve ability to drag to the last track in a parent folder whose last track is a collapsed folder 

Visual spacers:
- add option in Preferences/Appearance to not constrain TCP visual spacer size to track lane height