Someone reviewed v on Jul 5, 2022

Pros: 555

Cons: 555

Bottom Line: 555

darkNiGHTS reviewed v4.602 on Mar 25, 2014

Blows Protools away (if you take the time to learn it).

SineWave reviewed v4.14 on Feb 11, 2012

Great for price. Blows away ProTools.

While waiting for PT to boot, you can do half of the song in Reaper. Just one of the many examples... I simply gave up on PT as it's not worth the trouble. DigiDesign is also a very crappy corporation, it's hardware is total cra*, not worth the trouble, too. They just want to have your money, lots of it. c***os on the other hand is a completely different story.

SineWave reviewed v4.14 on Feb 11, 2012

Great for the price. Blows away ProTools.

SoundMix reviewed v4.0 on Aug 5, 2011

OK for price. ProTools blows it away.

SoundMix reviewed v4.0 on Aug 5, 2011

OK for price. ProTools blows it away.

michagunt24 reviewed v4.0 RC2 on Aug 1, 2011

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egg83 reviewed v3.4 on Mar 26, 2010

For the size of this program, is a great piece of recording software! Purchased this a few weeks ago, and is truly worth the price! Great deal of features, designed very well, everything that one needs for recording is within a click or two. High marks for Reaper...

aarowsmith reviewed v3.161 on Jan 4, 2010

One of the Best and Easiest to get started up and running true Pro Recording Software out there at an unbelievable Price ! Reaper is both Very Powerful and Easy to use. I do not know about other Musicians and Sound Engineers/Producers and Song Writers out there, but, what I can say is the Reaper Software is as good and or better than Pro Tools or any other Recording Software out there at any price, Period !!!!. And it only gets better and even more powerful as time goes by. The Reaper Software Updates released on a regular basis and also a big plus is the Reaper Software Programmers actually do listen to their User Base !!! Wow', now if we could only get Congress, GM and Chrysler to listen to us.......? Na', that will never happen........

dhry reviewed v3.06 on Jul 21, 2009

Pretty good program. Top marks for actually naming their software company "c***os".. a nickname I've given to MacOS for years now..

some guy reviewed v3.06 on Jul 21, 2009

pretty powerful stuff but need more cow bell

Paul Skinner reviewed v3.0 on May 26, 2009

There really aren't words to describe how spectacular this piece of software has become over the last few years.
With version 3 it has really solidified and become strongly worth considering among the expensive alternatives.

allthebestnamesgone reviewed v2.54 on Dec 30, 2008

Pretty amazing product - keeps improving and improving, non-crippled demo with just a nagscreen and very very cheap if you buy it.
Incredibly small size, fully vst compatible etc etc etc

- check it out!

aruprc reviewed v2.45 Beta on Aug 27, 2008

Excellent program does more than its bigger counterparts with less bloat. Its not free but its reasonably priced for sure.

License

REAPER is not free. Be sure to purchase a license if you use it past the evaluation period. The full license agreement will be presented to you when you run the installer.

People or companies who wish to distribute REAPER (i.e. as part of a magazine or with hardware) may do so by agreeing to the REAPER Software Distribution Agreement.

Paul Skinner reviewed v2.45 on Aug 26, 2008

This keeps getting better and better.

The updates have slowed now to one 'major' one a month with only a couple of minor fixes in between.

Cooledit reviewed v2.206 on May 25, 2008

nice software, low on resources and cheap to buy

some parts of the interface a bit too bright
for my eyes though

emupaul reviewed v2.032 on Jan 27, 2008

great program, works very well with asio4all and m-audio products, I use for amature webcasts and recording local rock show.

Flebbo reviewed v2.032 on Jan 25, 2008

This is a really good alternative to Cubase. I will give it a 5 when the bug that causes the program to freeze with my usb-midikeyboard is fixed.

RWW reviewed v2.032 on Jan 25, 2008

The guy really works on this program so I think the fact he does it for the OS most of us use is a lousy reason to give it a low score.

nilst2006 reviewed v2.027 on Jan 7, 2008

This is a quite good program, but due to the fact that there are releases to often i only give it a 4.

grimpr reviewed v1.888 on Aug 27, 2007

The spirit of quality shareware shines through this magnificent application, priced at 40$ nothing can't compare price/feature/quality/support wise to Reaper.

Programmed with talent,love and dedication from the Internets No.1 Punk!, Justin Frankel, which gave us Winamp and started the P2P revolution with Gnutella, Reaper is destined to become sooner than later THE Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) app.

I wont detail the vast array of features and love this program has, i advise you to visit the official site at http://www.reaper.fm/ and give a good look especially at the forums.

In conlusion, The Best True Shareware program for the Windows and soon the OSX platform.

Excellent value for all the factors,superb support from the author.

Very highly recommended.

Richardky reviewed v1.886 on Aug 20, 2007

i love it .. and i like the fact that they ( are frequent updates and releases ) simply means there are frequent bugs and improvements fixed daily ...
who would say no to that ? for those whom complain ... i dont get it :)

pipelineaudio reviewed v1.877 on Jul 21, 2007

Ahjefri, hit Control - Shift - C or whatever keys you choose in the keyboard preferences and it will do wht you want it to

ahjefri reviewed v1.870 on Jun 30, 2007

nice software, but need to be consistent in copy and paste ,,

For example ,,

copy selected area of selected item ,, when you paste them it paste only one of the selected item not all of them as expected,,

This feature is very much needed as you compile different tracks and you need to repeat that compilation ,, otherwise this is very much promising software,,

the artist reviewed v1.865 on Jun 8, 2007

As a developer, this guy needs PLANNING. Fix-Release day after day is not a good nor convenient practice.

"Hey you, make some schemes and scheduling and then start coding".

In fact, see this: two releases in a day. June 8, 1.864 and 1.865.

SineWave reviewed v1.864 on Jun 8, 2007

Best audio app out there. Turns your computer into a nice little digital studio. You get everything you need with it. Install Reaper and Foobar and you don't need anything else for audio in your comp. You can even route Foobar through Reaper with ReaRoute ASIO driver.

About the development: this app was developing quite rapidly at the time, but now the development is more steady-like and regular. It's not to get the attention. It's just that there was so many things to do...

It's a huge refreshment in the DAW world so you can finally forget about those expensive mega-audio-apps [and mega bucks].

After seeing Reaper, I'd buy Cubase if it were 9.99, and then just maybe :-).

ahjefri reviewed v1.857 on May 19, 2007

very small,very eash yet very effective to do complex jobs,,

I could not get more than selected area in more than item to work fine Other wise it's excellent software,,

Richardky reviewed v1.836 on Apr 6, 2007

i have hear it all now - someone complaining about daily updates lol ...

this is a life saver little app for recording and i for one am very happy with all the updates (that improve this nifty piece of software more more everyday) :)

worth every penny if you hit the record button often on your pc .. very responsive support and a flowing forum with answers to about anything you need ...

i rate this good stuff ..

Targaff reviewed v1.830 on Mar 25, 2007

Damn Lawrence, you found them out, software authors really do have nothing better to do than make sure they're up on Betanews every other day!

Lawrence01 reviewed v1.822 on Mar 12, 2007

Im so sick of seeing this program listed. He is deliberately doing putzy little updates to keep this program listed as a new beta version. This site should put a minimum time frame in which a program be listed as having a new update. I mean this thing is mentioned DAILY for what now, MONTHS, nearly a year or something like that.

This program must not be selling too well if the daily updates done in desperation of attention is needed....

the artist reviewed v1.808 on Feb 22, 2007

please mr Reaper, don't release so insanely fast. It's ok to develop, expand, polish and publish, but you create a sense of frustration among users. It's such that no one bothers to review this anymore.

(i can't contact the developer, so i make my comments here).

goldenanalog reviewed v1.71 on Jan 28, 2007

D*mn*d impressed...as a vet Cube user, this MT is coming up fast. The author has a superb work ethic; it's reflected in the speed in which bugs are chased down and squashed. I could make several suggestions; but at this point, it's funner just to watch it's evolution...in real time, no less! Bought the non-commercial license; one of these days just might upgrade....

Paul Skinner reviewed v1.66 on Jan 16, 2007

1.666 is out now.

JEdwardP reviewed v1.46 on Nov 30, 2006

Good software, maybe the best choice if you really need professional-quality recording. If you don't, though, I strongly suspect you'll prefer GoldWave and/or Audacity to this.

stevetures reviewed v1.36 on Nov 10, 2006

Scoring... as in Movie / TV soundtrack scoring. Unfortunately, REAPER probably can't help you 'score' yet. *wink

the artist reviewed v1.22 on Oct 3, 2006

yes codeaero, it's updated too often but it does only good to the user. just don't try to be up to date everyday. the good thing is that if u wait for a month or two you can connect and find that the proggie has advanced a lot. i'll give it 5 to encourage it!

BoNeLeSS reviewed v1.22 on Oct 3, 2006

Do they force to update every time?

codeaero reviewed v1.08 on Sep 10, 2006

WOW! Still a version everyday.. How does anyone manage to keep up with that.. Make the product stable and than release periodical versions. No one likes updates every day.. It makes you look unprofessional.

Paul Skinner reviewed v1.0b0 on Aug 9, 2006

@comeoffit:
Really? Winamp said that? I don't remember ever reading that anywhere on their site (version 2.x onwards).

In other news, this build is working great on my computer (for evaluation purposes, mind).

comeoffit reviewed v1.0pre8 on Aug 7, 2006

Paul Skinner, that's not a novel statement at all. I've seen it numerous times, the most popular case (that I can remember at the moment) being the original versions of Winamp. It was always shareware, but it had no nags and no limitations. People always called it "freeware" because no one cared... And they'll probably do the same with this thing.

nightwolf reviewed v1.0pre8 on Aug 7, 2006

Stated on the homepage before the 1.0 releases were out:

"REAPER versions 0.xx are available as freeware. When we release v1.0 the license will change to shareware, but you can freely use REAPER versions 0.1-0.99 for free. Head on over to the download page to grab a copy!"

nightwolf reviewed v1.0pre7 on Aug 7, 2006

krgood, i guess you never read the homepage, where it clearly stated versions up to 1.0 were free, and future releases will be shareware.

krgood reviewed v1.0pre7 on Aug 6, 2006

Nightwolf...
Never visited the web site, just downloaded the releases and checked them out...for what is is worth, I just checked the web site, and it says nothing of the sort about going from freeware to shareware...If I have to drill down somewhere to find that out, it would never have happened anyway. No worries mate, I'm just one user who will buy when I see something worth buying...Not that this is not worth the price...just in IMHO, there are better values for the money...Agree or disagree...no problem for me either way...
Have a nice day...

Paul Skinner reviewed v1.0pre7 on Aug 6, 2006

Taken from their website: "REAPER is provided with full functionality, and will not expire after any period of time. We trust that you, the user, will obey the license agreement and purchase a license if use continues."

Novel. Silly... but novel.

The (sort of) reverse psychology is making me want to pay for it...

Paul Skinner reviewed v0.999 Beta on Jul 31, 2006

Is it going to be the last free one?
*Sob*

Brilliant programme.

@jp_ext: Have you even tried it? It's very stable every build.

anomoly reviewed v0.997 Beta on Jul 26, 2006

actually at 1.0 will no longer be free so not so funny. Question is, how many more till 1.0?
End users get 3 more chances till 1.0-that's funny.

mjm01010101 reviewed v0.997 Beta on Jul 26, 2006

They should just release it as .99 repeating. Hilarious.

Tosher reviewed v0.981 Beta on Jul 16, 2006

now the current version, if i write quickly is 0.988 I wonder what comes after 0.999? 0.9991? It's like one of those curves... you know.

fatray reviewed v0.973 Beta on Jun 28, 2006

Talk about updates, as soon as I downloaded this another version came out, LOL. 975 out hours later

TGB72 reviewed v0.968 Beta on Jun 21, 2006

I never saw so frequent updates in a program, looks like they have the final product (v1.0) several months ago but they're posting "beta" versions and updating the program every day to catch some potential buyers, anyway it's a great program and they were very smart if they're doing that.

KAK reviewed v0.963 Beta on Jun 15, 2006

Setup not longer under 1-MB
bud its not important GREAT App! THX

AntiochMedia reviewed v0.962 Beta on Jun 12, 2006

> Themed scrollbars for mixer and routing windows.

Wow - this makes a HUGE aesthetic improvement!

shnitsel reviewed v0.960 Beta on Jun 3, 2006

Excellent, been looking for a program like that for a long time!

DiGiTaLFX reviewed v0.955 Beta on May 24, 2006

Grab it while you can - as of version 1.0 its going to become shareware.

netean reviewed v0.954 Beta on May 22, 2006

I installed an earlier version of reaper and just couldn't get my head around it -how it worked, how to best use it etc. Just installed this latest beta and suddenly it all makes perfect sense. Reaper is NOT audacity, it does somethings similar and much more than audacity. It's much more akin to Adobe Audition in features, but Teeny Tiny Install and memory footprint.

Superb application

DiGiTaLFX reviewed v0.954 Beta on May 21, 2006

This is just what I've been wanting for such a long time! A good quality, free music program. Looking forwards to following this one develop.

ArKay74 reviewed v0.954 Beta on May 21, 2006

The installer still sucks (doesn't ask in which group to put the REAPER menu).

Good program though.

Sim__ reviewed v0.954 Beta on May 21, 2006

zridling wrote: "Not anymore! Great program."

It IS less than a megabyte.

n8 reviewed v0.949 Beta on May 5, 2006

Awesome program. It runs light and fast - and I like the simple interface better than the more 'pretty' ones like Audition or Cubase. The built-in Jesusonic effects aren't my favorite, so I loaded up with a ton of free (and great quality) VST effects. I hardly use any other program now.

zridling reviewed v0.947 Beta on Apr 24, 2006

"...the installer is less than 1 megabyte"

Not anymore! Great program.

E.T. reviewed v0.947 Beta on Apr 23, 2006

What are you talking about? Which multitrack studio is friendlier as this? Try to learn Cubase...
This is a great piece of software. It already has all the necessary features (ASIO, VST, DX support), fast, reliable, and yes - user friendly. And it's constantly improving. What else would you need from a freeware program? Great job!

lil2short2see reviewed v0.946 Beta on Apr 23, 2006

Lots of features, but not quite user-friendly like some other softwares.

egg83 reviewed v0.940 Beta on Apr 11, 2006

This is a cool multi-track recording tool. Lightweight on resources, without being lightweight on important features, such as VST support and fx routing. Cant wait for the next release!

Stalvenson reviewed v0.92 Beta on Mar 15, 2006

A release a day keeps Bill Gates away

KAK reviewed v0.91 Beta on Mar 15, 2006

i love it °_°
Perfect Steinberg VST-SDK implantation
"And the Best" UNDER 1-MByte
Next REAPER Release ... PLZ °_°

AntiochMedia reviewed v0.84 Beta on Mar 2, 2006

seier: You bring a very valid question -- what's the difference?

Audacity is an open source alternative to wave editing applications such as Sound Forge and older versions of CoolEdit.

CoolEdit gained features to start competing against industry giant DigiDesign's ProTools and other studio software such as Cubase SX.

One of the big differences between a wave editor and studio software is in hardware support.

Adobe Audition (CoolEdit), Cubase SX, and ProTools all support ASIO devices - recording equipment that focuses on digitally capturing input with low latency. I use an mBox which is an ASIO device. The idea of playing music live while listening to the other tracks and having the lowest latency possible makes using software beyond a simple wave editor necessary.

Another difference is that REAPER will allow post-processing effects that aren't simply effects that are rendered. Adding effects from equipment or from Jesusonic (which in and of itself is amazing technology) as 'sends' which are like a layer effect in Photoshop is another difference.

Now, if you talk to a studio recorder, they could probably list 20 other things, but yes, there's a huge difference -- but only really if you are looking for studio-quality software.

Audacity is excellent software, and I prefer it over SoundForge and yes, I like the interface quite a bit more than REAPER's at this point. I can't use recording equipment with Audacity though - but I sure can plug in a PC Microphone and record a bit and make some fun, easy recordings.

seier reviewed v0.83 Beta on Mar 2, 2006

Based on the screenshots Audacity has this beat by a long run. Can anyone compare the two for me?

Thanks,
Christian Blackburn
First.Last@Yahoo.com (replace the first and last)

tipsyboy reviewed v0.78 Beta on Feb 22, 2006

Well guys - - you did an OUTSTANDING JOB with this release. I find all I was lamenting about fixed and the whole program seems to have approved a lot.

SO - THANX FOR THIS f - r - e - e really very good recording progam - ! - !

Keep on the GOOD WORK ! !

E.T. reviewed v0.73 Beta on Feb 18, 2006

Despite some flaws it's a good piece of sotware. With almost daily updates I'm sure all existing problems will be solved fast. Some new will be added too...
And, it's the only one FREEWARE decent multitrack software on the market. So if you don't want to spend hundreds of dollars just to be able to record your homemade song this is definitely a great tool. It will always have highest rating from me as long as it stays free.

regwebb reviewed v0.66 Beta on Feb 12, 2006

I'm another totally blind screen reader user, and I like the degree of keyboard support. As has been mentioned elsewhere, I can't find any method for selecting tracks via check boxes, or some other accessible method. Also, on an admittedly cursory inspection, I couldn't find how to arm tracks for recording. If there are plans for highly graphical features, such as a time line for loops ETC, if the relevant information can be entered via dialogues, then the potential customer base for this program can be as wide as possible. Good luck with future development.

tipsyboy reviewed v0.61 Beta on Feb 7, 2006

Satisfactory recording, editing and wav-saving. The GUI is kind of "watery" though. Nice built-in filters and stuff.

Bad is the fact that VST-Plugins won't show up with their real adjustment possibilities, so to load them into the list is rather useless.

Well, nice try. Needs a lot of work before it can compare to standard audio software. Good for those who just want to do some home recording.

bendingspoons reviewed v0.59 Beta on Feb 4, 2006

Good stuff,btw v0.59 is up already,lol.
Feb.4,06

Richardky reviewed v0.57 Beta on Feb 3, 2006

a free multitrack recorder with dx and vst support 10 stars...

even when it goes shareware the aurthor states it will be non crippled and no nags or limitations ..its a please pay if can type of deal ..awsome

Canuckistani reviewed v0.57 Beta on Feb 3, 2006

You were wrong, buddy. It's the 3rd. It's really a shame the developer attracted some talented people to his forum community who like to help him along. Rapid development is evil. Evil, I say!

jnoseworthy reviewed v0.53 Beta on Jan 27, 2006

The program has great potential; however, there are issues with regards to accessibility to screen reading programs. One example of this is the inability to check or uncheck items with the SpaceBar; (a windows standard function.)

A suggestion would be to provide the ability to create a user defined keyboard mapping functionality. This capability would enable screen reader users to avoid key comflicts with their computer speech programs.

Good work.

ArKay74 reviewed v0.43 on Jan 7, 2006

Good program, but this NIS setup, like many others, sucks. Please add the start menu location selection, putting everything in the main menu is too messy for my taste. I like to organize stuff (Multimedia/Audio/Reaper).

Skyfrog reviewed v0.42 on Dec 28, 2005

Don't fear the reaper.

tacc reviewed v0.42 on Dec 28, 2005

Mr Frankel is to programmers what Pete Doherty is to rockstars. The ****in' best one still alive and kicking.

Togora reviewed v0.42 on Dec 28, 2005

This looks like a great program however, on installing Reaper on to my system it was refused permission to start by the security programs. This may be due to the way my system is configured, but it is the first time it has ever happened. Perhaps it is because my system is 64-bit. I have uninstalled Reaper until a better version is made available.

mjm01010101 reviewed v0.42 on Dec 28, 2005

quality. Fun stuff, too. :)

AntiochMedia reviewed v0.42 on Dec 28, 2005

c***os = Justin Frankel
Justin Frankel = Creator of WinAMP, now working on independent products such as Jesusonic

Visit the home page. I find the introduction of this amazing! I'd love an alternative to the very expensive Cubase SX or Pro Tools -- it supports ASIO devices like my mBox!