Reaper belongs to the class of DAWs, that is, digital audio workstations, and is a software environment for recording, developing and engineering audio tracks. It is much more than an ordinary audio editor, it is a full-fledged sequencer on the level of Pro Tools, Sonar or Cubase.
The program works steadily on Windows operating systems, from version 98 to "eight". There is a version adapted for OS X. Wine is required to run it on Linux.
Features of Reaper
The interface of the audio station has elements typical of such software: piano roll, mixer, arranging area, track panel, transport panel. The program boasts the following features:
- 64-bit audio processing;
- Hybrid track type and unlimited number of tracks;
- MIDI device support;
- Extensive routing functions that allow you to send the signal in any direction;
- Possibility to work with several projects simultaneously;
- More than 200 effects for sound processing;
- Using an unlimited number of effects on one track;
- work with tracks of different bit rates and sample rates in the same project;
- multichannel audio recording;
- tempo and size changes within one project;
- synchronization with popular audio editors;
- system of takes, allowing to obtain the needed sound in several attempts;
- support of basic sound plug-ins;
- work with the ReWire protocol;
- the ability to edit the audio tracks of video files.
You can change the appearance of the program by applying the theme downloaded from the official site. There are over 800 themes in all.
What about MP3s?
There are several laws in the U.S. that impose restrictions on the use of the MP3 format. Reaper is capable of exporting ready-made sound tracks to this popular format, but the user will have to download and install an additional library.
The absence of virtual instruments and ready samples in the program is the reason for its small size. So, the installation file "weighs" only a little more than 8 MB. When unpacked, Reaper occupies about 60 Mb on the hard disk of the workstation.
