REAPER | Audio Production Without Limits

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REAPER'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 REAPER, fully featured with no artificial limitations. You can evaluate REAPER in full for 60 days. A REAPER license is affordably priced and DRM-free.

Constant Evolution

A new REAPER 5 license includes unlimited free updates through REAPER version 6.99. Frequency varies, but updates are typically released every few weeks.

These updates include bug fixes, feature improvements, and significant new features, all of which are free. Updates only take a minute or so. All preferences and configurations are preserved, and forward and backward compatibility are maintained.

Feature 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.
A whole lot more.

REAPER 5.941:

5.941

API: fix ReaLearn crash

API: support GetSetMediaTrackInfo(P_PROJECT)

MIDI hardware: allow saving project/other limited UI actions while waiting for a hung MIDI device

Linux

add ALSA MIDI support, do not show MIDI-only devices in audio configuration

add system hidpi detection, can disable using ui_scale_auto=0 in reaper.ini, or override using ui_scale=

reuse existing REAPER instances when opening files from desktop environment (use -newinst command line parameter to override) ...

MIDI devices

add retry button to audio/MIDI device error window

warn when a previously-enabled device is not connected (you may see new warnings about MIDI devices from your past)

show previously-connected devices in device list, allow forgetting those devices ...

do not default to square envelope points on parameters that have a large number of steps defined •

improve win32/mac plug-in filename parsing for projects saved on linux

more...

New in Version 5

Notation editor: NEW in 5.20 - Compose and edit MIDI as musical notation, or view and edit recorded MIDI. Flexible mouse editing, key signatures, multiple clefs, dynamics, voices, lyrics, tuplets, articulation, ornaments, slurs, and more.

FX:VST3 support, sample-accurate automation for VST3 and JSFX, FX browser improvements.

ReaScript:API and scripting improvements, including a built-in development environment for creating and debugging scripts in Lua, EEL, or Python. Create anything from simple macros, to complex new functionality.

Control grouping:Flexible, automatable VCA control. Link groups of track controls together at any point in the signal flow.

Video:Many improvements to video support and performance, including real-time programmable track and item effect processing.

FX parameter automation:Full automation and MIDI/OSC learn support for per-take FX, improved FX envelope and modulation management via the Project Bay, increased automation recording speed.

And more:New GUI layouts, Media Explorer improvements, metronome beat patterns, Opus support, MIDI note-off editing, new volume envelope modes, new actions and API functions, and many other fixes and improvements.