Multitrack audio and MIDI recorder for your Mac OS X

REAPER for Mac

REAPER for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    REAPER 7.78 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

    reaper777_universal.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    e1c72ef179bee6ff691c2725788b71bf

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 7.78 Screenshots

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What's new in this version:

Sends:
- add new pre-receive send mode, sending media and monitoring without creating feedback loops (e.g. for sending midi to a sampler and then receiving audio back to the same track)
- tint send level indicator added in 7.75 is now configurable, defined by colortheme/theme tweaker 'Send custom color tint - draw mode' 

ARA:
- apply the final item gain (zero, if item is faded out) to ARA plugin output after the end of the media item being processed
- improve behavior when loading take FX on a multichannel track
- improve stability when saving project to new directory, or copying/moving/renaming media
- remove various dependencies on track/take channel count
- support head/tail time reported by plugin
- when fx output is shifted early, apply media item starting gain (zero if fade-in exists) to all plugin output samples before the actual media item start 

MIDI editor:
- improve performance when opening/closing MIDI editor with many editable contexts
- performance improvements with many contexts open
- fix incorrect behaviors of fast mouse moves with marquee select with time selection
- fix incorrect hit testing of CC handles

FX:
- building multichannel routing will prompt to optionally configure MIDI routing from up to the first 16 added tracks, using pre-receive sends
- improve performance of linked parameters 

Mixer:
- add mute send/FX bypass slot for all/selected tracks to send context menus
- fix toggle mute of all/selected track send slot modifier when in non-trim automation mode

ReaScript:
- document gfx_setcursor base64 support (added in 7.77)
- MarkTrackItemsDirty() correctly handles pooled MIDI items across tracks
- various MIDI_ setting APIs automatically mark relevant tracks dirty for undo

Ruler:
- improve performance when displaying many named markers
- increase maximum number of ruler lanes to 48 

Theme:
- add default option in Preferences/Appearance/Media Items to use faster/less precise item rendering
- optimize drawing themes that use item background images with transparency, faster default theme with selected items
- optimize item_bg theme images if possible for faster drawing speeds 

VST3:
- avoid reentrance if plug-in requests restartComponent in response to initializing the plug-in
- ignore restartComponent requests if they occur from a thread other than the main thread
- release processor prior to component, fixes warnings from some plug-ins 

Windows:
- fix copy/paste of high unicode codepoints on Windows in ReaScript/Video/JSFX IDEs
- improve sizing of localized controls within save/open dialogs 

Crossfade editor:
- properly set media offline/online when crossfade editor is open, updates after external editors were used, etc 

DDP:
- fix incorrect encoding of excess genre packets

Freeze:
- do not preserve MIDI-only sends to frozen tracks 

FX reordering:
- improve default behavior when dragging down and empty slots enabled, provide alternate (7.75-7.77) behavior by holding shift while reordering 

Import:
- do not delete track after multichannel MIDI import if the track has any FX or routing

Linux:
- improve support for plug-ins that forward keystrokes back to REAPER

MIDI inline editor:
- improve grid display when in continuous scrolling

Paths:
- support relative paths for various fields in Preferences/Paths and Preferences/Backups, primarily useful for portable installs

Project:
- store master track GUID in project files, fixing track view screenset restoration for master track

Render:
- fix rendering raw PCM files with more than 1 channel

Snap:
- fix issues with snap at fixed offset from other media

Timecode:
- allow project start to be set to fractional frame offset (configure via Project Settings/start offset menu)

Tooltips:
- fix missing commas in locking tooltip

Track hardware outputs:
- improve labels in various places to include destination channel names 

Video:
- respect fractional frame offsets, if enabled, to match timecode 

API:
- ignore midi_reinit() (and related others) when incorrectly called by certain extensions in other threads
- improve performance of PlayTrackPreview/StopTrackPreview, defer global lock/routing reanalysis if called multiple times within a short window