REAPER has experimental native support for Linux, and the Windows version works well with WINE. REAPER supports macOS X versions from 10.5. to 10.15. Some features may require OS X 10.7+. 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. REAPER 5.973 is a digital audio workstation software that permits you to perform various functions such as MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment. This program offers complete solution related to sound music. Import any audio sample, compose, sort, edit and mix audio files. Change your PC into the full power of any top-of-the-line recording studio. Cockos Reaper is currently free until 1 June 2020, and is revered for its flexibility and customisation options. Reaper is compatible with third-party plug-ins, including VST, VST3, AU and AUi formats. It’s a fully functioning DAW with automation, audio and MIDI editing, piano roll, built-in instruments, mix effects and more.
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Developer(s) | Cockos |
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Initial release | August 23, 2006; 14 years ago |
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Written in | C, C++, Assembly language |
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Type | Digital audio workstation and MIDI sequencer |
License | Proprietary |
Website | www.reaper.fm |
REAPER (an acronym for Rapid Environment for Audio Production, Engineering, and Recording) is a digital audio workstation and MIDI sequencer software created by Cockos. The current version is available for Microsoft Windows (XP and newer) and macOS (10.5 and newer) – beta versions are also available for Linux.[1][2] REAPER acts as a host to most industry-standard plug-in formats (such as VST and AU) and can import all commonly used media formats, including video. REAPER and its included plug-ins are available in 32-bit and 64-bit format.
Licensing[edit]
REAPER provides a free, fully functional 60-day evaluation period. For further use two licenses are available – a commercial and a discounted one. They are identical in features and differ only in price and target audience, with the discount license being offered for private use, schools and small businesses. Any paid license includes the current version with all of its future updates and a free upgrade to the next major version and all of its subsequent updates, when they are released. Any license is valid for all configurations (x64 and x86) and allows for multiple installations, as long it is being run on one computer at a time.[3]
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Customization[edit]
Extensive customization opportunities are provided through the use of ReaScript (edit, run and debug scripts within REAPER) and user-created themes and functionality extensions.
ReaScript can be used to create anything from advanced macros to full-featured REAPER extensions. ReaScripts can be written in EEL2 (JSFX script), Lua and Python.[4] SWS / S&M is a popular, open-source extension to REAPER, providing workflow enhancements and advanced tempo/groove manipulation functionality.[5]
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REAPER's interface can be customized with user-built themes. Each previous version's default theme is included with REAPER and theming allows for complete overhauls of the GUI. REAPER has been translated into multiple languages and downloadable language packs are available. Users as well as developers can create language packs for REAPER.[6]
Included software and plug-ins[edit]
Things 3 organization. Reaper comes with a variety of commonly used audio production effects. They include tools such as ReaEQ, ReaVerb, ReaGate, ReaDelay, ReaPitch and ReaComp. The included Rea-plug-ins are also available as a separate download for users of other DAWs, as the ReaPlugs VST FX Suite.[7]
Also included are hundreds of JSFX plug-ins[8] ranging from standard effects to specific applications for MIDI and audio. JSFX scripts are text files, which when loaded into REAPER (exactly like a VST or other plug-in) become full-featured plug-ins ranging from simple audio effects (e.g delay, distortion, compression) to instruments (synths, samplers) and other special purpose tools (drum triggering, surround panning). All JSFX plug-ins are editable in any text editor and thus are fully user customizable.[9]
REAPER includes no third-party software, but is fully compatible with all versions of the VST standard (currently VST3) and thus works with the vast majority of both free and commercial plug-ins available. REAPER x64 can also run 32-bit plug-ins alongside 64-bit processes.[8]
Video editing[edit]
While not a dedicated video editor, REAPER can be used to cut and trim video files and to edit or replace the audio within. Common video effects such as fades, wipes and cross-fades are available. REAPER aligns video files in a project, as it would an audio track, and the video part of a file can be viewed in separate video window while working on the project.[10]
Control surface support[edit]
REAPER has built-in support for: Pixave 1 0 1.
- BCF2000 – Behringer's motorized faders control surface, USB/MIDI[11]
- TranzPort – Frontier Design Group's wireless transport control[12]
- AlphaTrack – Frontier Design Group's AlphaTrack control surface[13]
- FaderPort – Presonus' FaderPort control surface[14]
- Baby HUI – Mackie's Baby HUI control surface[15]
- MCU – Mackie's 'Mackie Control Universal' control surface[16]
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Version history[edit]
- First public release – December 23, 2005[17] as freeware[18]
- 1.0 – released on August 23, 2006[19] as shareware
- 2.0 – October 10, 2007
- 2.43 – July 30, 2008: BetaMac OS X and Windows x64 support.[20]
- 2.56 – March 2, 2009: Finalized Mac OS X and Windows x64 ports.[20]
- 3.0 – May 22, 2009
- 4.0 – August 3, 2011
- Work on Linux support began.[21]
- 5.0 – August 12, 2015
- Beta-quality Linux support[1][2]
- 5.981 - July 22, 2019
- Cumulative improvements and enhancements, notably Notation mode MIDI Editor (new in 5.20), VST3 support, Reascript, Video support, Control Grouping, FX Parameter Automation, Envelope modes, new API functions, new Actions, and much more
- 6.0 – December 3, 2019
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ abc'REAPER 5: An Exhaustive Review'. 4 November 2015.
- ^ abc'Reaper Audio Software Is Coming To Linux'. Phoronix.
- ^'REAPER | Purchase'. www.reaper.fm. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
- ^'REAPER | ReaScript'. reaper.fm. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
- ^'SWS / S&M Extension'. www.sws-extension.org. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
- ^'REAPER | Language Packs'. www.reaper.fm. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
- ^'REAPER | ReaPlugs'. www.reaper.fm. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
- ^ ab'REAPER | About'. www.reaper.fm. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
- ^'REAPER | JSFX Programming'. reaper.fm. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
- ^'REAPER 5: An Exhaustive Review'. ExtremRaym. 2015-11-04. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
- ^'Behringer - BCF2000'. Behringer.com. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
- ^'Frontier Design Group'. Frontierdesign.com. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
- ^'Frontier Design Group'. Frontierdesign.com. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
- ^'PreSonus - FaderPort'. Presonus.com. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
- ^'Mackie - Baby HUI'. Mackie.com. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
- ^Marketing Dept. 'Mackie - Mackie Control Universal Pro'. Mackie.com. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
- ^'REAPER - Old Versions'. Reaper.fm. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
- ^'REAPER : Latest news'. Web.archive.org. Archived from the original on June 15, 2006. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
- ^'REAPER - Old Versions'. Reaper.fm. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
- ^ ab'REAPER - Old Versions'.
- ^'Linux port of reaper/swell - Cockos Confederated Forums'.
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External links[edit]
- REAPER en español (unofficial website, tutorials & tips)
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Honestly, if you're a total beginner, you almost can't go wrong with DAWs these days. All the mainstream ones are superb. After awhile, you may well find that one or another is more to your taste, but that's the kind of thing that can only reveal itself gradually over time.You'll hear lots (and lots) of talk about which DAWs are best suited to which types of music, but honestly, I've written symphonies using Ableton Live and electronica using REAPER (and I'm hardly alone). It's true that some communities of composers/producers gravitate toward certain DAWs, but -- especially if you're starting out -- that fact isn't as important as it might seem.
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Here's my advice on the matter: Pick a DAW (Bitwig is amazing), and commit to not buying a single third-party plugin for at least a year.
The problem beginners have is that they think there's something wrong with their software, when the reality is that they don't yet understand how compressors, and EQs, and reverbs, and delays, and filters (and all that stuff) work. And they think that if they drop a fortune on fancy third-party versions of those things, all their problems will disappear. They won't. Truth is, the 'stock' versions of these things that come with DAWs nowadays are absolutely fantastic.
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I have close to 300 third-party plugins in my plugin folder. That gives me all kinds of shades of color and nuance that I can use to create certain kinds of sounds and moods. But if someone asked me to make a record using only the stock plugins in Live, or Logic, or Studio One, or REAPER, that wouldn't bother me in the slightest. Wait until you really understand how those components work before you start chasing down 'that sound.' And remember that some of the best records ever made were made using equipment that is startlingly primitive in comparison to the audio facilities of your phone.
Everything on the internet says otherwise, but it's all about the music and your knowledge. It is almost never, in the end, about the gear.