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REAPER is a digital audio workstation
Digital audio workstation
A digital audio workstation is an electronic system designed solely or primarily for recording, editing and playing back digital audio. DAWs were originally tape-less, microprocessor-based systems such as the Synclavier and Fairlight CMI...

 created by Cockos
Cockos
Cockos, Inc is an American digital audio technology company founded in 2004 by Justin Frankel. The company's stated goal is: "to develop software sustainably while preventing profit rationale from forcing engineering compromises...

. It is distributed with an uncrippled evaluation license
Shareware
The term shareware is a proprietary software that is provided to users without payment on a trial basis and is often limited by any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience. Shareware is often offered as a download from an Internet website or as a compact disc included with a...

 with a nag screen explaining the license cost
Proprietary software
Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...

. It is currently available for Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 (98
Windows 98
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/Me
Windows Me
Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows Me , is a graphical operating system released on September 14, 2000 by Microsoft, and was the last operating system released in the Windows 9x series. Support for Windows Me ended on July 11, 2006....

/2000
Windows 2000
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/XP
Windows XP
Windows XP is an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops and media centers. First released to computer manufacturers on August 24, 2001, it is the second most popular version of Windows, based on installed user base...

/Vista
Windows Vista
Windows Vista is an operating system released in several variations developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, and media center PCs...

/7) and Mac OS X
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

 (10.4
Mac OS X v10.4
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/10.5
Mac OS X v10.5
Mac OS X Leopard is the sixth major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. Leopard was released on 26 October 2007 as the successor of Tiger , and is available in two variants: a desktop version suitable for personal computers, and a...

/10.6
Mac OS X v10.6
Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the seventh major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.Snow Leopard was publicly unveiled on June 8, 2009 at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference...

/10.7). It also works under Wine
Wine (software)
Wine is a free software application that aims to allow computer programs written for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Wine also provides a software library, known as Winelib, against which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like...

. Version 4 of REAPER was released on August 3, 2011.

Notable features

  • The following plug-in APIs are supported:
    • VST
      Virtual Studio Technology
      Steinberg's Virtual Studio Technology is an interface for integrating software audio synthesizer and effect plugins with audio editors and hard-disk recording systems. VST and similar technologies use digital signal processing to simulate traditional recording studio hardware with software...

       & VSTi
    • DX
      DirectX plugin
      In computer music and professional audio creation, a DirectX plugin is a software processing component that can be loaded as a plugin into host applications to allow real-time processing, audio effects, mixing audio or act as virtual synthesizers...

       & DXi (PC only)
    • AU
      Audio Units
      Audio Units are a system-level plug-in architecture provided by Core Audio in Mac OS X developed by Apple Computer. Audio Units are a set of application programming interface services provided by the operating system to generate, process, receive, or otherwise manipulate streams of audio in...

       (OS X only)
  • Audio & MIDI items (clips) can be mixed within the same track.
  • Hardware Effect integration.
  • The number of tracks is limited by the performance of the user's hardware rather than the software.
  • Integrates the company's own plug-in and FX scripting API, called Jesusonic (JS). JS effects are text files which, when interpreted and loaded by the DAW, function as plug-ins.
  • Can function both as a ReWire
    ReWire
    ReWire is a software protocol, jointly developed by Propellerhead and Steinberg, allowing remote control and data transfer among digital audio editing and related software...

     slave and host.
  • 64 bit version (as of v3.103) includes bridging technology to enable the use of 32 bit VSTs in a 64 bit environment.
  • Ships with a number (about 20) of native FX plug-ins including a Delay, Compressor, Reverb etc. and a larger number (about 225) of effects written using JS, some of these are written by Cockos
    Cockos
    Cockos, Inc is an American digital audio technology company founded in 2004 by Justin Frankel. The company's stated goal is: "to develop software sustainably while preventing profit rationale from forcing engineering compromises...

     and others by 3rd parties. The numbers of effects are as of v3.161.
  • The processing of plug-ins can be distributed over a local area network
    Local area network
    A local area network is a computer network that interconnects computers in a limited area such as a home, school, computer laboratory, or office building...

     using the ReaMote feature.
  • User defined GUI
    Gui
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     themes, custom actions/macros
  • An open extension API for C++, Python and Perl scripting.
  • The developer is noted for their agile software development
    Agile software development
    Agile software development is a group of software development methodologies based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams...

     principles, including a rapid development cycle and responsiveness to user requests.
  • Noted for its flexibility, especially with regard to routing.

Notably missing are score, notation, and wave editors.

Licensing

REAPER is distributed under two licenses. Users can choose between a license targeted to private individuals or one targeted to organizations. There is a nag screen which is disabled through licensing the product, and there is no copy protection
Copy protection
Copy protection, also known as content protection, copy obstruction, copy prevention and copy restriction, refer to techniques used for preventing the reproduction of software, films, music, and other media, usually for copyright reasons.- Terminology :Media corporations have always used the term...

.

Control surface support

REAPER has built-in support for:

Version history

  • First public release – December 23, 2005 as freeware
    Freeware
    Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the...

  • 1.0 – released on August 23, 2006 as shareware
    Shareware
    The term shareware is a proprietary software that is provided to users without payment on a trial basis and is often limited by any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience. Shareware is often offered as a download from an Internet website or as a compact disc included with a...

  • 2.0 – October 10, 2007
  • 3.0 – May 22, 2009
  • 4.0 – August 3, 2011

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