Multitrack audio and MIDI recorder for your Mac OS X

REAPER for Mac

REAPER for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    REAPER 7.57 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

    reaper757_universal.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    886ee4bb3ca21c4fb15c8f0f82ce6cca

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:

Render:
- fix embedding loudness metadata consistently
- fix possible blank areas in render when rendering or freezing multiple overlapping sections (7.37 regression)
- fix potentially incorrect file auto-incrementing when rendering multiple file formats and rendering stereo/multichannel to separate mono files
- fix rendering stereo/multichannel to separate mono files being applied when enabled but all postprocessing is also disabled
- fix potential crash when using malformed auto-increment suffix
- if user-entered render filename matches auto-increment pattern before resolving wildcards, start auto-incrementing from the user-entered number
- improve responsiveness when auto-incrementing many filenames at once
- respect setting to not embed metadata when rendering
- when rendering multiple files, ensure that if any file names collide, all of them get auto-incremented

Media explorer:
- add rewind/home button
- fix playback rate adjustment for MIDI preview
- fix tempo-matching and playback rate adjustment for REX preview
- minimize seeking when adjusting playback rate while previewing
- pressing play while media is already playing restarts preview from most recent start point
- support double/half tempo-matching for MIDI

Import:
- fix folder track generation with media in subfolders with common names
- preserve original file order when importing multiple files at once via drag/drop

MIDI:
- preserve newlines and other non-printable characters in text events
- support adding and editing multi-line text events

Web interface:
- fix issue where keepalive connections would always remain active
- improve behavior when creating a new surface, pressing Apply, then pressing OK
- display connection/request statistics in configuration window

Windows:
- fix UTF-8 text in render statistics listview display
- improve ctrl+backspace/ctrl+delete behavior in various edit fields
- support triple-click to select all in edit fields

Big clock plus:
- fix $markerpos/$regionpos when project start measure is customized

Default theme:
- updated theme/script version number

Envelopes:
- allow editing track volume/pan/width text fields when in automation read mode, if there is not an active envelope overriding that specific field

FX:
- fix channel count negotiation after loading default preset

Media items:
- fix unnecessary warning message when setting media item properties and 'auto-stretch at tempo changes' is enabled

Mouse modifiers:
- fix potential crash when attempting to create a fixed lane comp area below the last track in the project

Pinned tracks:
- improve vertical zoom behavior when mouse is over pinned tracks

ReaScript:
- document P_EXT:ORIGINAL_FILENAME for GetSetMediaItemTakeInfo_String, etc

Spectrogram:
- fix actions to adjust brightness/contrast when used while peaks display settings window is not visible

Tempo envelope:
- respect tempo envelope beats timebase when pasting envelope points