Multitrack audio and MIDI recorder for your Mac OS X

REAPER for Mac

REAPER 6.57

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  • Latest Version

    REAPER 7.27

  • Operating System

    macOS 10.15 Catalina or later

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  • Author / Product

    Cockos Incorporated / External Link

  • Filename

    reaper657_universal.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    f77ad3d1405b9e4b13e59afc144cd2c2

Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system.

Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of REAPER 6.57.


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What's new in this version:

Timestretch:
- add new Rrreeaaa (polyphase synthesis) stretching mode, useful for artistic stretches

Video:
- support native decoding and rendering of .wma, .wmv, and mpeg-4 audio/video via Windows Media Foundation
- support embedding FLAC audio in WMF-encoded MP4/M4V (Windows 10 and later)
- improve performance when using video-only or audio-only media
- support encoding audio-only or video-only files with ffmpeg
- update Grid of Videos preset
- deprecate DirectShow video decode mode, must be manually re-enabled in preferences

Media items:
- actions to activate previous/next/etc take do not affect locked media items
- allow opening and editing per-take FX on locked media items, but not alt/opt+click to delete all FX
- allow vertical autoscroll when moving/copying items using certain customized mouse modifiers
- fix take marker display with certain zoom settings
- improve interaction between item height preferences when using free item positioning

Razor edits:
- fix editing bug when razor edit contains MIDI items in project with timebase time and partial measures
- simplify display of pre-edited razor edit areas
- add mouse modifiers to move areas disabling or temporarily enabling ripple edit
- fix mouse-position-dependent snapping

Render:
- fix issues with peaks and dither when channel counts are conformed by output (e.g. multichannel forced to stereo by CD or DDP render)
- respect option to add rendered files to project when preference enabled to return to render settings window after render
- support rendering to mp3 (as primary or secondary output) when processing at sample rates higher than 48k
- when rendering selected regions, if no regions are selected, render all regions
- improve error message details

Appearance:
- add separate preferences for drawing labels above media items, and hiding media item labels, at specific media item heights
- do not draw media item labels above the item if the item would be smaller than the label

FX:
- zero out PDC-compensated FX delay samples
- show combined oversample rate in chain view when both chain and instance oversampling are used

macOS:
- add gen_vol*_dark and gen_pan*_dark theme elements for macOS dark mode
- fix horizontal mouse drag on mixer send controls

MIDI editor:
- improve behavior of mouse modifier to delete all touched notes when moving the mouse quickly
- support loading raw sysex from file in sysex edit window
use fixed-width font for sysex edit window

Performance:
- reduce realtime CPU use when repositioning edit cursor with playback stopped
- improve recovery from media buffering underruns when using heavy per-item processing

Recent projects:
- add option to display customized project title (set in Project Settings/Notes) in recent projects menu and prompt
- add option to display either file part or full path in list

Drag and drop:
- improve preview display when dragging to insert-new-track area

Drawing:
- improve drawing performance with thousands of very small items (6.54 performance regression)

FX browser:
- allow removing LV2-created categories

lv2:
- support URL encoded filesystem specifications

Media explorer:
- do not try to copy directories via drag/drop

Notation editor:
- improve positioning of accidentals in chords

Opus:
- ensure all samples are flushed to file when rendering at sample rates other than 48k

Peaks:
- fix various sample-level view glitches

Preferences:
- include more information/help in video decoder details window

ReaScript:
- increase precision of razor edit start/end position as returned by GetSetMediaTrackInfo("P_RAZOREDITS")

Theme:
- add theme elements for inactive takes, applied separately from elements for muted/not-soloed tracks/items

Undo:
- improve undo behavior for actions/scripts that did not previously set the correct undo flags

VST3:
- clear all parameter info on kParamTitlesChanged

WALTER:
- allow specifying mcp.extmixer and master.mcp.extmixer to front command