Multitrack audio and MIDI recorder for your Mac OS X

REAPER for Mac

REAPER for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    REAPER 7.76 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

    reaper776_universal.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    ff71fb382e8b7541d9ffec36938edf8c

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 7.76 Screenshots

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    REAPER 7.76 Screenshot 1

What's new in this version:

Sample edits:
- actions that affect the first selected item within the time selection also work with razor edits
- add actions to delete all sample edits
- do not enforce maximum time selection length when running actions to delete sample edits
- fix peaks display glitch on last sample of looped item
- fix typos in warning text
- support mono downmix channel mode, mono peaks display when running context menu actions to delete all sample edits
- warn if attempting to run a sample edit action that is more than 16k samples long, but allow edits up to 16 million samples (will use lots of memory and .RPP size) 

ReaScript:
- support GetSetAutomationItemInfo("D_MUTE")
- fix documentation for AddRegionOrMarker()
- fix GetSetTrackSendInfo() for new UI orderings (7.75 regression)
- fix incorrect return values for GetTrackSendName() (7.75 regression) 

FX:
- fix reordering quirks with FX slots not enabled (7.75 regression)
- fix reordering quirks with FX slots enabled
- include slot information in floating window title bars, project bay, if differs from chain index 

MIDI editor:
- improve tick-level rounding of various navigation actions
- trim pre-quantized event positions when adjusting source length 

Mixer:
- avoid reset of scroll position when switching project tabs
- save scroll offset in project state 

Project load:
- properly restore arrange Y-scroll offset
- correct invalid zoom levels when loading project 

Click source:
- automatically convert entered relative paths to absolute paths 

Envelope manager:
- fix display of send envelopes following empty slots 

macOS:
- periodically make sure that mouse event coalescing is enabled, in case a plug-in disabled it 

Media items:
- don't disable OK button when dialog has no changes 

MIDI inline editor:
- fix buttons being drawn offscreen (7.75 regression) 

Peaks:
- fix potential incorrect display with spectrogram, high channel counts and certain zoom levels 

Render presets:
- fix incorrect duplication of presets after shift+clicking preset button and saving preset 

Spectral repair:
- use smaller analysis window when repair length is very small 

Virtual MIDI keyboard:
- allow adjustment of velocity using shift+up/down keys 

WMF:
- fix possible hang with certain media, improve support for various media types in general