Multitrack audio and MIDI recorder for your Mac OS X

REAPER for Mac

REAPER for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    REAPER 7.54 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

    reaper754_universal.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    fe3eab0c32510bcb8174c4b717bfb223

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 7.54 Screenshots

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What's new in this version:

AES-31 import:
- fix applying source offset to media
- consolidate matched mono channels to stereo tracks
- fix pan direction
- fix pre-FX/post-FX pan
- import matched L/R channels with differing pan automation as dual pan
- remove redundant automation points
- when re-linking media, retain resolved file locations rather than prompting for every file
- set automation visible/active

FX:
- when bringing FX online via timer, also bring input FX online
- when opening project in new tab (including opening subprojects), handle saved project setting to bring FX online after project load
- when opening project via command line, handle saved project setting to bring FX online after project load
- when rendering queued project or rendering subproject proxy file, ignore saved project setting to bring FX online after project load

Splash:
- change 'Removing track' message to 'Unloading track' for clarity
- display graphical progress meter when loading project
- improve text alignment with long text on second line
- shorten displayed plug-in names when loading project

Actions:
- add action to delete all track FX on selected tracks
- fix undo following new cycle visible envelope actions added in 7.47
- fix various actions that calculate project media length on background projects

Fixed lanes:
- add action to play only most recently playing lane (for A/B comparison)
- when re-enabling fixed lanes, ensure lane play state is consistent with lane collapsed state

JSFX:
- fix default values for file-based sliders
- increase size of I/O button slightly

macOS:
- allow plug-ins to request access to Speech framework for speech recognition
- improve splash screen topmost behavior, lower when switching to other applications during project load, etc

Mouse modifiers:
- fix redundant menu entries in media item edge mouse modifiers
- improve default tooltip description for arrange view D actions
- improve apply button behavior in preferences

Peaks:
- ensure peaks are built after unfreezing
- ensure peaks are built after pasting items as new takes

Project unload:
- add option to unload projects in background on exit (7.52 and earlier behavior)
- prevent UI updates while closing project

Apply FX / Render as new take / Glue:
- improve status display when processing multiple items

Automation items:
- fix behavior when using timebase beats (position only), project setting to affect automation item length is disabled, and razor editing

Big clock:
- support $parentpos wildcard, to display parent project time for subprojects if unambiguous

Envelopes:
- fix actions to reduce number of envelope points when all points are redundant

Fades:
- fix LPF fade when 'all takes play' is enabled

Linux:
- support copy/paste of items/tracks/etc across REAPER instances

Localization:
- improve sizing of various controls in render window

Media explorer:
- fix peaks building when switching rapidly between files with crossfade enabled

Media item fades:
- fix potentially incorrect fade-in/fade-out when applied to media with an odd number of channels

Modal windows:
- fix modal window positioning preference for Insert Multiple Tracks and Tempo Matching Prompt windows

Project load:
- do not run FX-related timers/etc until load has completed

ReaFIR:
- fix save/restore of multi-mono mode

ReaScript:
- add GetMediaTrackInfo_Value('I_TCPSCREENY'/'I_MCPSCREENX'), to get location of track/mixer control panel relative to physical screen

Render:
- if no directory is displayed in the render dialog directory field, browsing for directory initializes with the directory that would be rendered to by default, rather than the most recently used directory

Spectral edits:
- clamp defaults to reasonable values

Subprojects:
- if the active project is a subproject, support displaying parent project time as secondary ruler and/or transport time unit

Windows:
- fix UTF-8 character support on some media item properties window fields