Multitrack audio and MIDI recorder for your Mac OS X

REAPER for Mac

REAPER for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    REAPER 7.41 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

    reaper741_universal.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    bea560a78048ef671570ce0c814c093e

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 7.41 Screenshots

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    REAPER 7.41 Screenshot 1

What's new in this version:

Crossfade editor:
- add actions to load default crossfade, crossfade presets
- add actions to nudge left or right item volume +/- 1 dB or 0.1 dB
- add actions to set preview time to 50/100/500 ms
- add actions to zoom in/out
- add action to toggle ripple editing on/off
- add action to toggle setting to lock left-hand item start position
- add option for edits to affect all selected items regardless of timeline position, enabled by default
- add option to link pre-roll/post-roll when mouse editing
- after running action to set pre-roll or post-roll to mouse, restart playback only if the pre-roll changed
- clamp edits to adjacent fade edges
- display the number of affected crossfades in the title bar
- fix wonky display update when editing while playing back
- improve auto-crossfade behavior when edits affect items that are not processed by the crossfade editor
- mute left/right also affects grouped items
- update checkboxes when reopening editor and solo/mute are enabled
- update numerical pre-roll/post-roll display after running actions that change pre-roll/post-roll

Render:
- add setting to enable/disable all dither and noise shaping
- allow editing render metadata even if embedding metadata is not enabled
- fix skipped samples at start of render with certain combinations of render settings and resample modes (7.37 regression)
- improve various behaviors and interaction with completed render dialog when project play rate is not 1.0
- prevent possible crash when adding rendered files to project after the source track or media item has been removed
- restore option to normalize to master mix
- see render postprocessing help for explanation of differences between 'normalize as if files play together' and 'normalize to master mix'
- support 'entire project' as a region in region render matrix, to enable rendering specific tracks as mono/stereo/multichannel
- support delaying render start for normal renders, not just queued renders
- support limiting to master mix, as distinct from limiting as if files play together

MIDI:
- avoid writing real-time MIDI messages when exporting to file
- fix midi peaks inaccuracies when looped items intersect tempo changes (7.39 regression)
- fix swing grid navigation on 1/2 grid size
- handle importing file MIDI with incorrectly-included SPP messages

MIDI editor:
- better behavior when using linked project grid and swing mode changes
- fix actions to navigate left/right by grid when snapping is disabled (7.40 regression)
- preserve swing setting after glue
- improve undo log message after note splitting
- use project setting for relative snap

Actions:
- add actions to move cursor by grid division, which preserve non-snapped grid if snapping is not enabled
- fix actions to show/hide all envelopes in certain situations

Actions window:
- prevent adding action from incorrect section to custom menu/toolbar in certain instances
- prevent closing window when double-clicking item that is not runnable

Mouse modifiers:
- fix incorrect capture handling when clicking to insert take marker
- preserve fade start/end time when engaging mouse modifier to adjust edge without changing fade time

Razor edits:
- fix handling of crossfades when stretching regions
- fix stretch edits affecting other items when preference set to add warp markers

Windows:
- allow OSARA to re-enable old ctrl+space playback binding via .ini file
- fix fade menu display issue on Windows XP/Vista/7 with classic system theme set

Auto trim/split silence:
- respect dialog fade-in/fade-out setting regardless of project default fade settings

Click source:
- fix initial focus of modeless source properties window

JSFX/Video Processors:
- get_host_placement() returns track index/fx address and sets 8 bit in flag when called from FX in container

macOS:
- fix ReaImGui issue with transparency

Media explorer:
- fix vertical-mode divider sizing issues

Menu/toolbar customization:
- reduce flicker on Windows

Nudge:
- fix nudging automation items by musical amounts

Pin mapper:
- fix incorrect initial size when using DPI scaling on Windows/Linux

ReaEQ/ReaXcomp:
- support mousewheel over text fields, like other ReaPlugs

ReaScript:
- fix instances where GetSetProjectGrid() would not set measure-grid (mode=3)

RPP:
- support LOAD_PRESET_FROM_FILE in

RS5k:
- fix undesired mode-switch when editing note start/end values

Ruler:
- fix quirks around double-clicking ruler, edit cursor moving

Tempo envelope:
- preserve beat basis when copy/pasting envelope points

Transport:
- fix inconsistent behavior when closing edit field via escape key

Undo:
- improve loop points/time selection undo messages