REAPER | Audio Production Without Limits

Do Anything

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 5.984:

Actions

add action to set media item playrate from user-supplied source media tempo

add meta-actions to set relative CC value based on next action toggle state/armed state

ARA

improve handling of projects with missing media

preserve edits when copying media items within time selection via action •

support plugins that read audio from multiple threads

Freeze

fix unfreeze of duplicated folder tracks or tracks with frozen receives •

update routing buttons for all tracks on freeze/unfreeze

macOS

re-enable rex2 support on Mojave •

remove builtin Mojave tab actions from view menu

workaround Mojave bug that causes crashes with certain menu customizations •

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.