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REAPER 7.49 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- Outdated default UI design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:
Crossfade editor:
- support previewing in bounds audio only, out of bounds audio only, top lane only, bottom lane only
- add option to allow hand-scroll on ruler (no auto-center or recenter)
- add setting to allow left and right items to be on different tracks or lanes
- fix interaction with arrange view edits when auto-crossfade is enabled
- if auto-center is disabled, support preference to center horizontal zoom on mouse cursor
- improve accessibility
- support mouse-editing pre-roll and post-roll directly
- support scrubbing audio
Actions:
- improve behavior when moving items up one track and first track selected (7.46 regression)
- add actions to toggle track zoom to minimum or default height, ignoring pinned tracks
- actions to move to zero crossing ignore non-audio items
- fix behavior when duplicating locked items via action
Render:
- fix auto-incrementing filename when rendering to both primary and secondary formats
- fix incorrect rendered output when using 'normalize to loudest file' and rendering multiple timeline regions at once (7.42 regression)
- fix possible glitch in online render when canceling render, seeking playback, and immediately restarting render
- improve various checkbox accessibility labels
- prevent normalizing or limiting to full master mix when rendering tracks or media items via master
Track panels:
- fix renaming of first track visible in TCP (7.46 regression)
- add context menu item in empty TCP area to customize empty TCP area toolbar
- fix meters occasionally not updating on pinned tracks
- fix dragging track below the last visible track when the last track is a collapsed folder track
Auto-stretch at tempo changes:
- fix editing edge of auto-stretched item if the item did not previously span any tempo changes
- ignore auto-stretch timebase for auto-synced click source items
FX:
- add option in Preferences/Plug-ins to not prompt to create routing for newly inserted multichannel instruments
- allow alias/rename of Wet/Bypass/Delta parameters
- improve loading speed of projects that have many per-take FX
Loudness tooltip:
- fix incorrect LUFS display on multichannel files
- improve behavior when using spectral edits
MIDI:
- fix possibly incorrect media item fades applied to overlapping and/or all-takes-play media items
- improve responsiveness when importing massive tempo map
Normalization:
- disable setting to adjust mono media -3dB when normalizing to peak or true peak (the setting was ignored in those cases anyway)
- respect preference to adjust mono media -3dB when normalizing stereo/multichannel media that is playing back only one channel
Preferences:
- fix positioning of mouse modifiers checkbox when dialog is resized
- move automatic take and pooled-MIDI item coloring options from Appearance/Peaks to Appearance/Media Items
ReaScript:
- add support for GetSetProjectInfo_String("RENDER_EXTRAFILEDIR")
- SetEnvelopePointEx/InsertEnvelopePointEx do not try to update UI if nosort is set
Region/marker manager:
- add Current column, to display where the play/edit cursor currently is
- list regions before markers by default
Windows:
- reduce excessive tooltip flicker
- use modern dialog when browsing for folders on Windows 7 and later
Batch converter:
- report to user if convert-in-place failed to replace original file, support trying again
Color theme:
- change fallback color (if theme does not provide a color) for divider between pinned and unpinned tracks
Crossfade editor / Phase aligner:
- allow automatic correlation calculations to take more time, to reduce CPU usage
Envelope manager:
- remove extra container-related items from FX parameter context menus
Linux:
- fix big clock region/marker display issues
Localization:
- support localizing Peak/-inf in loudness tooltip
macOS:
- work around OS bug where some audio device names could be truncated on Big Sur
Metronome:
- set project metronome pattern when adding/editing time signature marker that changes metronome patterns at project start
Peaks:
- fix potential enhanced peak drawing error
Pitch envelope:
- render pitch envelope consistently regardless of buffer size
Region move:
- fix MIDI start offset after moving region with contents
REX:
- fix imported items not looping correctly when project tempo changes have many significant digits of precision
Spectrogram:
- fix incorrect display of multichannel recording items
Take envelopes:
- option to move or not move take envelopes when moving media item contents only affects slip editing (always adjust take envelopes when splitting, edge editing, etc)
Tempo envelope:
- when inserting or editing tempo change point at time zero, adjust tempo and/or time signature in project settings to match inserted point
Track manager:
- fix arrange view vertical scroll behavior after changing track filter
Wildcards:
- fix behavior of wildcard help dialog when opened from Consolidate or Bounce dialogs
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