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Latest Version
REAPER 7.43 LATEST
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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.
- 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
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
- Outdated default UI design
- Limited built-in virtual instruments
- No score editor for traditional notation
- Requires manual setup for some features
Also Available: Download REAPER for Windows
What's new in this version:
MIDI editor:
- when coloring by track/item and track/item is default colored, add option (enabled by default) to color by source instead
- fix initial zoom issues when using note folding
- fix reset of inline editor zoom/scroll on undo/redo, other actions
- preserve sequencer specific messages, support viewing and editing similar to sysex
- support snap to visible grid in inline editor
- fix displaying all text/sysex messages at item start in MIDI editor
- fix loss of default settings when gluing/etc in certain instances
Localization:
- fix control resizing errors on Windows
- improve layout of automation item properties window
- improve layout of track envelope manager window
- improve measurement/expansion logic of controls on Windows
Razor edits:
- allow editing track envelopes in media lane, media item take envelopes similarly to track envelopes
- avoid adding unnecessary edge points when editing envelopes
- fix behavior when editing envelopes with multiple razor edits at once
- fix tooltip when editing envelope left-side tilt
Actions:
- add action to toggle project timebase between time and beats
- fix toggle command state for track groups 65-128
- improve actions to move selected points up/down a tiny/little bit with mute/stepped envelopes (move by step size)
Crossfade editor:
- add actions to mute left item, mute right item, solo crossfaded items
- if re-center/auto-center options disabled, do not clamp edits or display to crossfade edges; allow crossfade to be partially or completely offscreen
- support hand-scroll by dragging above the top item
Envelopes:
- add actions to remove unnecessary points
- fix action to reduce envelope points removing first or last point
Media explorer:
- support marking and favoriting non-media files (projects, templates, FX chains/presets, etc)
- support adding metadata for non-media files; persists as long as the file remains in the same folder
- when writing metadata to file, preserve user-edited cached metadata that the file type does not support
MIDI:
- add explanatory timebase text to MIDI source properties dialog
- automatically pool copies of items when they are already pooled, regardless of MIDI pooling preference
- fix extending unlooped MIDI item when timebase is set to time and tempo changes exist
Phase aligner:
- add text explaining that multiple rows can be selected
- support applying phase adjustment per-track rather than per-item
Project bay:
- improve handling of double-click on collapse buttons
- remove useless behavior when drag/dropping FX parameters
ReaScript:
- FX_Get/SetNamedConfigParm() supports channel_config to allow configuring ReaPlugs I/O and VST3 requested bus size
- support I_FREEZECOUNT for GetSetMediaTrackInfo()
Render:
- avoid saving default rendered file name as "untitled"
- do not embed loudness metadata if embedding metadata is disabled generally
- when rendering to a lossy format like mp3 or ogg, calculate normalization and statistics based on the format-encoded signal rather than the source signal
Track I/O context menu:
- support multiple selected tracks when adding new track
- when adding a new track with sends, select the new track and ensure it is visible
Windows:
- fix date UTF-8 formatting issues with certain locales
- fix FX chain focus issues when renaming FX, toggling bypass, etc
Freeze:
- fix intermittent issues with overlapping items being generated
Items:
- fix looped item playback when item is just barely longer than source material
JSFX:
- improve syntax highlighting of parameter names
Metronome:
- commit volume edit when editing and immediately closing window
Mixer:
- fix adjusting mixer control panel height for visual spacers and scrollbar
Project:
- support importing .adl (AES-31) project files
Project tabs:
- support up to 1000 project tabs (increased from 128)
Regions:
- fix mouse-clicking regions when preference enabled to display selected regions over unselected regions
Ruler:
- fix display update after double-clicking region
Scrub range window:
- support entering negative values
Section source:
- preserve take envelope timing when slip editing section source
Snap:
- respect snap to sample setting even if project sample rate is not set (use device sample rate instead)
Take envelopes:
- add option to move or not move take envelope points when moving media item contents
Theme:
- no longer show meters for non-record armed tracks that are over +0dB as a different color
Track manager:
- fix sorting by certain columns
WAV:
- fix reading certain kinds of metadata (7.23 regression)
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