In addition to the features described above, REAPER lends itself as a powerful audio editor and mixer for video production work.

ReaScript, an amazing feature for those who are coding geniuses and want to customize REAPER even further-supported languages are Lua, EEL and Python.

very extensive options for automating volume, panning and effects plug-ins.

powerful non-destructive editing options like splitting, moving, time stretching, trimming, pitch shifting, fading and crossfading all accomplished without ever having to switch tools.

professional quality multi-track recording, limited only by the amount of physical inputs of your hardware.

Here are some, and by no means, all of of its capabilities, that would take you eons to read and even longer for me to summarize, so let’s just get to some of the main features: Whatever your musical predilection, goals or tastes are, you can rest assured REAPER will capture it in real-time without latency and deliver pristine recordings. This can be experienced the first time you lay down that sweet guitar lick for your newest single or those killer pipes with your after-school-boy-band-acapella-group. REAPER delivers high quality recording, editing, mixing and mastering capabilities.

For the outliers, those of you actually turning a sizeable profit and/or running a commercial studio, fear not, the commercial license only runs $225 USD which is still literally less than half of what you would be paying for the full version of ProTools and the majority of other leading DAWs, minus maybe Logic, but we’ll save that discussion for a different time. I think the majority of us fall into at least one of the categories which makes it a very attractive option for novices, amateurs and seasoned engineers alike. You are an educational or non-profit organization.

You are an individual or business using REAPER commercially, and yearly gross revenue does not exceed USD $20,000, or.

You are an individual, and REAPER is only for your personal use, or.To be eligible for the discounted license you have to meet three criteria taken straight from the Cockos-Reaper website: On top of that, Cockos, the company who manufactures REAPER allows you a 60 day free trial to use and abuse, I mean, test, at your full discretion. Let me repeat, $60! Be honest, most of you are going to burn through at least that much cash in about a month at Starbucks or insert other frivolous vice here_. At $60 USD, you can own the discounted license for the complete version of REAPER with regular free updates in perpetuity. The price tag alone is reason enough for everyone in music production to own a copy.

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