REAPER (Rapid Environment for Audio Production, Engineering, and Recording) is a Digital Audio Workstation created by Cockos. It is distributed as "uncrippled, unexpiring shareware".
An alternative to popular Digital Audio Workstation software
It has a very small footprint and very light resource usage. The major emphasis of the UI design is in streamlining the workflow. The developers release new updates almost daily, and are open to suggestions proposed by users.
REAPER with the Stealth colortheme [more screenshots...]
Download REAPER Installer (2.2MB)
REAPER v1.868 - June 20 2007 [changelog]
Uncrippled unexpiring shareware for Windows 98/ME/NT/2k/XP/Vista
REAPER User Guide (v1.86x, PDF, 5.2MB)
OS X version coming Q4 2007
Recommended system: Multiple processors, Windows 2000/XP/Vista with 1GB RAM, >1GB free disk space, 1280x1024 in 16.7M colors, ASIO sound drivers
Minimum system: 500mhz processor, Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista with 128MB RAM, 10MB free disk space, 800x600 in 256 colors or higher, Windows compatible sound hardwareAbout REAPER
REAPER is a powerful Windows application for multitrack recording and editing of audio.
- Portable - supports running from USB keys or other removable media
- 64 bit audio engine
- Excellent low-latency performance
- Multiprocessor capable
- Direct multi-track recording to many formats including WAV/BWF/W64, AIFF, WavPack, FLAC, OGG, and MIDI.
- Extremely flexible routing
- Fast, tool-less editing
- Supports a wide range of hardware (nearly any audio interface, outboard hardware, many control surfaces)
- Support for VST, VSTi, DX, DXi effects
- ReaPlugs: high quality 64 bit effect suite
- Tightly coded - installer is just over 2MB
- more features...
- technical specifications...
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