Multitrack audio and MIDI recorder for your Mac OS X

REAPER for Mac

REAPER for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    REAPER 7.74 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

    reaper774_universal.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    4ca2f17788ead9bdc3499969919306e7

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 7.74 Screenshots

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What's new in this version:

Sample edits:
- add mouse modifier (ctrl+drag by default) to draw vertically
- add mouse modifier (ctrl+alt+drag by default) to draw vertically (fine adjustment)
- improve display at medium zoom levels
- support setting sample edits for all channels at once
- support 'within time selection' actions regardless of whether the edit cursor is within the time selection
- draw bolder indicator when zoomed out and sample edits exist
- fix behavior after canceling sample edit scale dialog
- fix mouse editing behavior when mono media is modified by stereo per-take FX
- fix possible incorrect application of sample edits (neighboring sample edited)
- if attempting to run sample edit time selection action while zoomed out too far but time selection is short enough, zoom in automatically
- improve behavior when applying sample edits to items that use sample rate conversion
- improve hit testing
- show message box if sample edit action fails because media is incompatible or time selection is too long
- show sample value in dB in tooltip 

FX:
- support building multi-mono or multi-stereo FX containers
- multi-mono/multi-stereo containers process all channels in parallel via separate FX instances with linked parameters
- support multi-FX that do not exactly match the track channel count (for example, multi-mono FX on the first 2 channels of a 4 channel track)
- label non-primary instances as '(linked)' if all parameters are linked to the primary instance
- when creating multi-FX within a container, use the container channel count
- display multi-mono/multi-stereo FX in TCP/MCP/menus as "ReaComp *4" (for example) by default
- display parameter sections in TCP controls context menu
- fix auto-adding parameter envelopes after un-linking FX parameters within a container
- improve tab order in parameter modulation dialog
- support auto-adding parameter envelopes for previously modulated parameters
- support linking/unlinking FX parameters directly from Param dropdown menu 

ReaScript:
- add set_config_var_string
- do not require string parameter for Track/TakeFX_FormatParamValueNormalized when called via Lua
- extend Main_openProject to accept a fxoffline: prefix for project filenames, opens project with FX offline
- fix Track/TakeFX_FormatParamValueNormalized producing incorrect results with some FX parameters (e.g. ReaEQ gain)
- GetSetProjectInfo() can specify READONLY to change read-only state (does not affect filesystem, just temporary state)
- improve performance of ProjectMarker API 

Tracks:
- improve behavior when dragging a track to the end of multiple folders/subfolders, allow controlling which folder is used as destination
- improve behavior when inserting after last-touched track which is the last track in a folder
- improve behavior when pasting tracks and last track in folder is selected
- ensure all track contents are visible after running action to unhide a track that was hidden via track manager 

Action shortcuts:
- avoid displaying multiple overwrite prompts when assigning MIDI messages
- improve handling of extra MIDI messages when assigning (do not auto-close if recently opened or prompted, do not auto-close if message is not different) 

Linux:
- improve drag/drop handling when dragging from other applications to plug-ins
- use XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR environment variable for default REAPER Media path 

Metadata:
- fix intermittent metadata reading failures for video/m4a files
- support displaying creation date when decoding using WMF or FFMPEG 

MIDI editor:
- fix new action to shrink item to last event when auto-extend option is off
- improve default scroll/zoom when opening for the first time after using the inline editor 

Notation:
- fix font sizes of PDF export on macOS/Linux (7.70 regression)
- fix display glitches when switching contexts 

Project settings:
- custom format for glue/etc obeys OK/Cancel buttons
- remove redundant render format configuration, render format should be configured via render window 

Projects:
- allow opening projects in read-only mode via open dialog, or by file attribute
- if loading a read-only .rpp file, display 'read-only' in title bar
- when running save action, if project is read-only, display save-as dialog 

Region manager:
- fix displayed start time when project start time offset exists
- fix exported length when displaying HH:MM:SS.SS 

Track panels:
- display metering options when clicking meter
- display recording options (input quantize, format, etc) when clicking record mode button 

Track templates:
- allow aborting load of track template from missing-media window
- ensure peaks are built when loading track templates with media 

Windows:
- improve font scaling of MIDI input configuration help text in HiDPI modes
- include estimated size in uninstall registration 

Actions:
- automatically select marker when running action to navigate to marker 

Actions window:
- add favorite/favourite synonym 

Command line:
- support '-fxoffline filename.rpp' option 

Embedded FX:
- fix focus/capture behavior when clicking (or alt+clicking) embedded FX headers 

Envelope manager:
- fix incorrect display of learn/TCP parameter status for collapsed sections 

Fades:
- preserve LPF fade attribute when gluing items 

FX browser:
- fix incorrect targeting of 'Insert Virtual Instrument' action (7.70 regression) 

FX parameter modulation:
- fix behavior with parameters that report denormalized values to host (mostly CLAP) 

Import:
- do not prompt to adjust project tempo when importing media if the displayed project tempo is within 0.0005 bpm of the media tempo 

JSFX:
- fix typo in badbussmojo/badbussmojo_aa 

Localization:
- fix AIFF/CAF format selection when format label is heavily localized 

macOS/Linux:
- fix incorrect buttons receiving default focus in certain dialog boxes 

Metadata/Comments:
- fix initial focus of multi-line edit window 

Metronome/click source:
- fix issues where later beats could incorrectly end up silent after switching multipliers 

OSC:
- fix FX_EQ_ feedback, other issues 

Pitch envelope:
- fix behavior when 'all takes play' is enabled (7.50 regression) 

Project bay:
- improve efficiency of reading metadata for files that are already in project 

Razor edits:
- fix display glitches after copying 

Render:
- add accessibility labels for render source options 

Retroactive MIDI:
- properly use device 'all inputs' flags when tracks have all MIDI inputs selected 

Ripple editing:
- add various ripple editing settings to new submenu of Options menu 

RS5k:
- fix rounding bug when calculating note names 

Spectrogram:
- zoomed-in spectrogram display previews sample edits 

Video:
- support user-supplied file extensions in decoder configuration string (for e.g. obscure formats) 

Wildcards:
- support $seltrack, which resolves to the first selected track, regardless of whether it is being rendered