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 5.211:

5.211

MIDI editor: fix possible crash when destroying midi item via undo/redo

OGG Opus: improve end of stream behavior when writing .

VST: fix support for HALion 5 and other VST3 with more than 64 output channels ...

MIDI editor

action to set note ends to start of next note will not shorten notes beyond the lesser of (grid size, 25% of original note length) .

add default toolbar buttons to switch view mode

add "show/hide track list" to track selection dropdown ...

MIDI

avoid duplicate note-offs on stop in certain instances .

fix export/glue of 1-byte text messages .

fix incorrect tempomap rounding issue . ...

Notation editor

improve note editing when displaying paired staves and custom clefs

fix incorrect breaming in certain chord/time signature combinations .

fix missing ledger line when using custom accidentals . ...

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.