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REAPER 7.40 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- Outdated default UI design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:
- add new graphical crossfade editor (thanks chmaha)
- hold alt/opt key while editing crossfade intersection handle to keep left-right movement minimal
- lower edge of fade start/end is mouse edit zone for crossfade width
- mouse edit in combination lane is handled like an item move edit in arrange view (only one side of the crossfade moves)
- support many context-specific actions and shortcut mappings (nudge, preview, align phase, etc)
- add option (enabled by default) to color the entire item in the arrange view when using the crossfade editor
- add theme images for navigation buttons
- display signal correlation within crossfade area
- support loading/saving snapshots
- support locking left-hand item start time (edits are instead applied to the right-hand item in reverse)
ReaNINJAM:
- add option to auto-assign remote channels/users to output channels
- add option to hide beat counter display
- allow configuration of remote output channels
- allow customizing bitrate for each local channel
- fix potential crash after first scan on macOS
- improve accessibility labels, remove various dividers from screenreader lists
- make plug-in i/o size configurable, allow configuration of output channels for metronome, local channels
ReaScript:
- add CrossfadeEditor_Show(), CrossfadeEditor_OnCommand()
- document more RENDER_SETTINGS values
- FX_GetNamedConfigParm() supports is_instrument
- auto-cleanup reaper-extstate.ini if it contains many incorrectly-written lines
- prevent writing invalid newline characters to reaper-extstate.ini via SetExtState()
- update documentation for SetExtState() to reflect lack of support for newlines in persistent state
Localization:
- allow localizing MIDI note names
- enhance per-control scaling to support x-position adjustment, width-shrinking, and y-growing of controls, via @id=scale,ysc=yscale,dx=moveamt
- improve localization tweakability of media item properties window
- support localizing ReaPlugs
- fix development helper tooltip ID display for disabled controls on Windows
MIDI:
- adjust item fixed-tempo setting when moving items across tracks to new timebases, auto-convert if possible
- improve behavior when importing, inserting, recording, gluing, or rendering MIDI on a track that has timebase set to time
- be a little more permissive when importing .mid files with oddly-formed MIDI track data, unterminated sysex messages
- change menu/action text to 'Time format: Measures.Beats.PPQ' from 'Time format: Measures.Beats.MIDI_ticks'
MIDI editor:
- omit view/editor state from undo points, reducing extra undo points in certain cases
- enabling 'snap relative to grid' disables absolute snapping for note-starts
- support relative snap for CC events
- improve behavior of actions to move cursor left/right by grid with 'snap to visible grid' enabled
Phase aligner:
- add new phase alignment action/dialog
- maximize phase correlation between media items and selected reference media items
- support batch processing, to phase-align multiple media items with multiple reference media items
- adjust grouped items when applying phase alignment
Big clock:
- support copying text to clipboard
- support double-clicking on region/marker color square to edit the region/marker
Click source:
- add setting to preserve click pitch when changing project playback rate
- do not apply project or media item pitch shifting if click source setting to preserve pitch is enabled
Crossfades:
- allow changing either fade-in/out or crossfade shape via fade shape popup menu
- respect preference to display crossfade handle when "offset overlapping items vertically" is enabled
Envelopes:
- fix envelope points possibly getting scrambled when editing point position via "set point value" dialog
- support relative snap when moving envelope points, automation items
Joysticks:
- fix issues when re-enabling a joystick that was previously not found
- update MIDI list when changing devices
macOS:
- fix inconsistencies with keyboard bindings after loading plug-ins that change locale (e.g. Kontakt7)
- fix stale darkmode color of text controls in certain instances
Mouse modifiers:
- fix automation item double-click action binding
- exporting ReaScript to set modifiers supports updating correct toolbar in MIDI editor
Peaks:
- fix dual-type peaks display when using item section/reverse (7.39 regression)
- fix peak edge drawing when using alpha < 1.0
Razor edits:
- add experimental option (reaper.ini areasel=2) to not merge adjacent selection regions
- improve behavior with video items and automation lane razor edit edges
- update toolbar when moving razor edit with ripple mouse modifier
Wildcards:
- localize $localtime using REAPER localization rather than system locale
- support $wildcard[
Actions:
- do not display extra message box when using new 'Save copy of project as (prompt with current name)' action
Audio Units:
- ensure MIDI events sent to plug-in are sorted
Linux:
- add Joystick MIDI support
LV2:
- ensure MIDI events sent to plug-ins are sorted
Media explorer:
- when loading FXB/FXP, do not focus existing FX if already visible
Menu/toolbar customization window:
- fix flicker on Windows
Meters:
- fix mixer master gain reduction metering when master has a high channel count
Paste:
- fix MIDI PPQ snapping when pasting items in projects that have tempo changes
Peaks building:
- allow peaks of corrupted partial media to finish building (7.39 behavior change reverted)
Project settings:
- fix save of default relative snap setting
ReaControlMIDI:
- improve macOS window sizing
ReaEQ:
- clean up UI layout, improve for localization
ReaPlugs:
- allow mousewheel over most text fields to adjust value
ReaSurroundPan:
- fix truncating utf-8 channel names
ReaVerb:
- fix issues with unicode filenames on Windows
Render window:
- add vertical scrollbar when used on very low resolution screens
RS5k:
- increase UI width
Ruler:
- fix potential hang in certain instances (7.19 regression)
Samplerate conversion:
- fix r8brain-free quality issues with playspeed changes and sub-128-sample blocksizes
Snapping:
- improve behavior of mouse-dependent start/end snapping (snaps to start unless in last 15% of item)
Theme:
- support maximum width for gain reduction meter in WALTER, as 4th coordinate of meter.vu.div
Windows:
- remove ancient hardcoded ctrl+space playback binding (users should use global shortcuts instead)
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