Multitrack audio and MIDI recorder for your Mac OS X

REAPER for Mac

REAPER for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    REAPER 7.67 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

    reaper767_universal.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    c104e02e34a5455f7fc5a51c15623323

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:

Envelopes:
- actions to remove redundant points will not remove all points from envelope
- actions to remove unnecessary points within time selection work within razor edits, if any
- actions to select/delete/insert points at time selection act on razor edits, if any
- do not allow deleting last envelope point when alt+dragging to delete points
- fix undo when deleting points via alt+click 

Video:
- default to writing video as MPEG-range with FFmpeg, can override with range=jpeg
- FFmpeg encoder can be passed tag= parameter to customize encoding mode tag
- FFmpeg encoder uses hvc1 for QT compatibility when encoding h265, can override using tag=
- fix incorrect color range when decoding JPEG-range media with newer FFmpeg versions 

Envelope manager:
- add preference for whether FX parameter sections are initially expanded (sections are collapsed by default)
- fix initial appearance on first open
- reduce empty unused space in top section 

FX parameters:
- organize various menus by parameter section/module/unit
- display parameter section/module/unit in track envelope title 

Mouse modifiers:
- add default region/marker double-click mapping 'set loop points to region, or edit marker' for consistency with past behavior
- add ruler lane header double-click context (double-click to select all regions/markers in lane, for example)
- display help text for the active mouse modifier when hovering over regions/markers 

Peaks:
- fix display of missing sample near end of item when zoomed-in
- fix incorrect waveform display when zoomed in on sinc-interpolated waveform with fadeout 

Render:
- 'do not render files that are likely silent' ignores media items on non-playing track lanes
- improve display of render speed display when very slow or very fast
- support popup edit window for entering long file names in render settings dialog 

Ruler lanes:
- distribute extra lane space to lanes with overlapping regions/markers as needed
- handle ruler lane click without mouse move like ruler click 

Web interface:
- add volume touch support for index.html and fancier.html
- support touch for volume/pan/width controls 

Actions:
- add actions to open paths for saved FX chains, color themes, project/track templates in explorer/finder, add to various menus 

Arrange view:
- fix grid line vs region/marker line z-order issue 

CLAP:
- optimize memory use for plug-ins with many parameters 

Linux:
- indent list view text when status images exist (similar display as Windows/macOS) 

macOS:
- improve keyboard behavior in various instances with odd focus 

Markers:
- display 'Add marker' rather than 'Edit marker' when adding and immediately editing a marker 

Media explorer:
- prebuffer audio before starting unsynchronized playback 

MIDI event properties:
- automatically correct invalid user-inputted beat position input like '5.0.0' to '5.1.0' 

Portable installs:
- fix incorrect addition of VST system paths after opt-out on first run 

ReaScript:
- support FX_GetParamSectionName(), to get the parameter section (VST3 unit, CLAP module) that the parameter belongs to, including parent sections, if any 

Recording:
- fix possible take offset off-by-1 sample when using looped recording 

Regions:
- when moving regions with contents, show preview line at the insert point 

Regions/markers:
- add separate preferences to display vertical lines in arrange view for regions and/or markers 

Ruler:
- change settings to hide all markers/regions and collapse ruler lanes to project settings rather than global 

Ruler lane manager:
- improve description of project settings to show/hide all regions/markers 

Spectrogram:
- add option in Peaks Display Settings to use media samplerate for spectrogram range 

Undo:
- shorten undo descriptions displayed in menubar/titlebar (fix 7.53 change) 

Volume fields:
- if user enters invalid value like --1 dB, treat as -1 dB 

Windows:
- fix loading notation font when REAPER is installed in a path that contains UTF-8 characters 

API:
- add CSURF_EXT_TAKEFX_PARAMINFO_CHANGED/CSURF_EXT_TRACKFX_PARAMINFO_CHANGED, so control surfaces can update when FX parameter names or parameter context changes