REAPER is a workstation for digital audio. It is a full audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment for multitrack audio and MIDI.
You may import any audio and MIDI files, synthesize, sample, write, arrange, edit, mix, and master songs or other audio projects using just your existing computer and no other software.

When combined with your choice of hardware audio interface (AD/DA: analog-to-digital/digital-to-analog) and a microphone, you have a full recording studio. It is equally at home recording a soloist, a band, or an orchestra.
REAPER transforms your PC into a full-featured recording studio. It will work with almost any audio interface currently available. Even interfaces designed by firms whose software precludes the use of any other hardware interface.
REAPER has limitations regarding track types, buses, and tools, as well as the absence of offline processing. To create a drum bus, simply add a new track above your drum tracks and click the folder button. This will automatically send the drum tracks to the folder. Once you’ve adjusted the drum levels and applied any effects, you can record the output of the folder to freeze the drums non-destructively, allowing you to continue working without losing your original tracks.
REAPER Features
Fast, Powerful Editing
- Drag and drop to import, arrange, and render
- Freely mix audio, MIDI, video, and still image media on any track
- Easily move, split, glue, resize, trim, loop, time stretch, pitch shift, fade, crossfade, slip, and snap to the grid without switching tools
- Intuitive zoom, scroll, scrub, jog, tab to audio transient, and MIDI navigation
- A simple and powerful nested folder system allows group editing, routing, and bussing, all in one step
- Full automation recording, playback, and editing support for track controls and plug-ins
- Easily manage tempo, time signature, and varispeed changes
- Separate audio or MIDI into freely arrangeable takes and lanes for easy comping
- Easily copy or move regions to quickly try out alternate arrangements
Plug-in Support
- Insert almost any third-party audio or MIDI plug-in: VST, VSTi, DX, DXi, AU (OSX only), JS
- ReWire (audio and MIDI) is any capable application for even more flexibility
- Fully automatic plug-in delay compensation (PDC)
- Sidechain any plug-in, even if the plug-in does not natively support sidechaining
- Apply FX in real-time or non-destructively render FX output
- Real-time network FX processing: use other local machines as an FX farm
64-bit ReaPlugs Suite
- Unlimited multiband EQ with draggable nodes
- Graphical FFT EQ/dynamics processing
- Technical and multiband compression
- Flexible, open-format convolution reverb
- Real-time pitch correction, with Elastique 2 Pro built-in
- Multitap delay, basic synthesizer, sample player, vocoder, algorithmic reverb, and more
- Special-use plug-ins to virtualize outboard hardware, stream audio, connect to NINJAM servers, and more
- Includes the JS audio and midi plug-in scripting engine. Also, the hundreds of user-programmable effects
Intangibles
- REAPER starts and loads fast – be ready to record in just a few seconds
- Portable – put REAPER in your pocket and run it from a USB key or other removable media
- Tightly coded – installer is only a few MB, and updates can be installed in less than a minute
- Rapid, efficient development – new features and optimizations are added quickly and often
- Very active, enthusiastic, and helpful user forum; get help quickly
- Fantastic and readable user-created manual
- An honest business model that aims to provide the best possible user experience
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