Multitrack audio and MIDI recorder for your Mac OS X

REAPER for Mac

REAPER for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    REAPER 7.42 LATEST

  • Review by

    Sophia Jones

  • Operating System

    macOS 10.15 Catalina or later

  • User Rating

    Click to vote
  • Author / Product

    Cockos Incorporated / External Link

  • Filename

    reaper742_universal.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    92691798eadd93c6dc7b867ea0151427

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 7.42 Screenshots

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What's new in this version:

MIDI:
- apply timebase changes when changing timebase via media item properties dialog
- fix auto-loop-disable/extend of looped items in time timebase when overdub recording
- fix overdub recording into subsequent loop iterations of looped items
- fix overdub recording to items in time timebase (with item-loop enabled)
- fix pencil-drawing MIDI when timebase is set to time
- fix potentially incorrect chasing on looped items in time timebase
- reconform MIDI data when switching item timebases (requires item to be un-pooled and not actually looped)
- when pasting MIDI items, snap item position to PPQN, not item-source-start-position
- fix auto-extending start of non-looped items in the time timebase

Crossfade editor:
- actions to preview left/right/both do not restart playback if already playing
- actions to preview right-hand item start playback from start of right-hand item
- add actions to increase/decrease pre-roll or post-roll time
- add actions to preview left/right/both, not soloed
- add action to play/stop from start of right-hand item
- fix actions to set preview time to 50/100/500 ms

MIDI editor:
- always allow recently-created copies of CC events to cross other events when using copy mouse modifier
- fix 'move right by grid' when snap enabled and limit grid to visible is disabled
- fix auto-extend of MIDI items with negative start offsets
- fix event properties tick parsing clamping to file length for item in time timebase
- improve snap behavior when inserting text/lyrics/sysex events via right-click/double-click in lane

Scrub:
- add new preference for one-shot jog mode when moving edit cursor, add action to toggle it
- add action to play a single one-shot scrub loop
- add action to invert looped-segment range
- add action to prompt to set/update looped-scrub range values

Accessibility:
- improve edit field labels in GetUserInputs() API call
- improve take loop section labels in Media Item Properties window
- Actions
- fix corner case behaviors of move cursor by grid division actions added in 7.41
- open in editor works while recording, does not automatically close audio device for external editors

Preferences:
- fix searching of mouseover text on some preferences pages
- remove option from preferences/mouse that is no longer used

Render:
- fix possible blank samples added to start of mp3 render when render settings enabled to mix/process at project sample rate and rendering to a different sample rate
- fix possible dropped samples at start of render when render settings enabled to mix/process at project sample rate and rendering to a different sample rate

Click source:
- fix incorrect peaks display when resizing item

Control surfaces:
- fix mixer ordering inconsistencies when mixer is not open

EDL:
- when importing Vegas TXT, handle start offset/playrate correctly

JSFX:
- improve syntax highlighting consistency for sliderX: lines

Localization:
- increase size of Metering labels in ReaPlugs

macOS:
- better popup button initial positioning when rounded macOS controls are enabled

Phase aligner:
- allow setting maximum adjustment to 0 ms, to restrict alignment to inverting phase only

Pin mapper:
- fix potential crash when reopening media pin mapper/media explorer pin mapper (7.35 regression)

Project bay:
- fix initial focus when docked

Project settings window:
- increase size slightly to make room for future additions

ReaScript:
- support re-scanning JSFX list/metadata by calling EnumInstalledFX() with idx=-1

Region render matrix:
- menu item to enable rendering all regions ignores the 'entire project' region

Ruler:
- improve double-click behavior, restoring some 7.40 functionality lost in 7.41

Save as:
- ensure saving project files via save-as always have correct .RPP extension

Track I/O context menu:
- support adding send/receive to new tracks

Track list:
- improve auto-scroll of track list to match mixer when selected track is partially visible

VST3:
- fix bridging handling of legacy CC messages

Wildcards:
- $namecount wildcard does not count multiple instances of the same name in the same string

Windows:
- improve handling of MIDI hardware output errors, add midi_hw_debug=1 ini file option to enable win32 debug messages on error