Reaper 5 25 – Digital Audio Workstation

Reaper 5 25 – Digital Audio Workstation Software
Reaper 5 25 – Digital Audio Workstation Download

Reaper Digital Audio Workstation REAPER is a complete digital audio production application for computers, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset. REAPER supports a vast range of hardware, digital formats and plugins, and can be comprehensively extended, scripted and modified. The following tables compare general and technical information among a number of digital audio editors and multitrack recording software. Please see the individual products articles for further information. Reaper 5.25 – Digital audio workstation. Cockos Reaper is a digital audio workstation: a complete multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment. Cockos Reaper is designed to let you work quickly and creatively, without imposing any artificial limits on what you can do.

REAPER is a complete digital audio production application for computers, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset.

I’ve been mastering with Reaper for about a year now, and honestly, I feel like I’m barely scratching the surface of what this DAW can do!

I’ve always been a fan of what is called “Object effect based workstations”. The fact that I can assign a unique chain of Vst effects across different songs on the same track and be able to tweak each of them however I want, without affecting the settings on the other songs, is a huge time saver and something I couldn't live without!

Another thing I love is how mastering friendly the ripple editing works, as well as the way that you can quickly perform object volume editing different section of a song before hitting the analog mastering chain (Ideal in a situation for example where you want to ride the choruses slightly lower in volume, so they don’t hit your compressors too hard and get squashed). This is made possible by a transient detection algorithm that runs circles around Pro Tools which not only lets you adjust the sensitivity but also can automatically search for zero crossings. So I can make edits till the cows come home, and there's never a threat of the dreaded click!

Reaper’s audio engine sounds great. The program is very stable, and the level of configuration is practically limitless. The rendering feature is a thing of beauty and it allows me to print all my masters with their unique final effects chain in one shot.

There’s definitely a learning curve you have to master before using it in a commercial situation but my workflow since I use Reaper has improved 10 fold. I've just started working on my own custom action scripts for my particular workflow requirements, which is something I would have never thought possible not coming from a coder's background!

Plus it's only $60 bucks, and It outperforms many other DAWs that cost 10's of times more any given day!

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REAPER
Stable release
Developer(s)	Cockos
Initial release	August 23, 2006; 14 years ago
Written in	C, C++, Assembly language
Operating system	Windows XP and newer macOS 10.5 and newer Linux (beta)^[1]^[2]
Platform	32-bit x86 (macOS, Windows, Linux) x64 (Linux, macOS, Windows) ARMv7 (Linux)
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]

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]

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]

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:

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]

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

References[edit]

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^ ^a^b^c'Reaper Audio Software Is Coming To Linux'. Phoronix.
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^'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.
^ ^a^b'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.
^ ^a^b'REAPER - Old Versions'.
^'Linux port of reaper/swell - Cockos Confederated Forums'.

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