Installing REAPER
Simply download the correct installer for your operating system, and run the installer. You can also copy the installer to a flash drive, and run it on a computer that does not have internet access. There is nothing else to download. The entire download and installation takes only a minute or two.
Upgrading REAPER
To upgrade an existing installation of REAPER, download the installer and run it, just as if you were installing REAPER for the first time. Your existing user preferences, shortcuts, customizations, extensions, and plug-ins will all be preserved.
The Upgrade Model
REAPER upgrades are offered whenever something is fixed or some new features are added. Upgrades are released frequently, sometimes as often as every few days.
Releasing upgrades incrementally helps us ensure that bug fixes get the attention they need, rather than being buried under a list of new features, and also gets new features into users' hands quickly, so that users can offer feedback and help guide the development process via the user forum.
Releasing upgrades incrementally helps us ensure that bug fixes get the attention they need, rather than being buried under a list of new features, and also gets new features into users' hands quickly, so that users can offer feedback and help guide the development process via the user forum.
32 bit? 64 bit?
Most users will likely want to download a 32-bit version of REAPER. All versions of REAPER have a full-resolution 64-bit internal audio signal path from end to end, on all operating systems.
Your decision of which installer to download depends primarily on the plug-ins you wish to use with REAPER and your operating system, and not on any audio quality considerations.
Version 4.22
April 5, 2012
Windows 32-bit
6.4MBWindows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7 or WINE
(limited support for W98/ME)
Windows 64-bit
7.9MBWindows XP/Vista/7 x64
OS X 32-bit
11MBOS X 10.4-10.7
OS X 64-bit
12MBOS X 10.5-10.7
beta
OS X PPC
7.7MBOS X 10.4-10.5
Version 4.22 Changelog
A little love-
JS:
- fixed incorrect MIDI bus handling
- fixed (low) limit on expression size
-
OSX:
- fixed large FX preset reading
- improved support for non-US keyboards
- API: plug-in state api now supports larger configuration chunks (up to 8MB or so)
- Envelopes: improved tooltip labeling for FX parameters
- Improved support for international characters in many places (EDL import/export, system path definitions, etc)
- Items: fixed volume labels when invert item phase is set
- OSC: fixed action messages
- ReaTune: fixed bugs in correction from 4.20/4.21
Is That All of It?
Yes. The REAPER installer is complete and self-contained. There is nothing else to download.REAPER contains no loop or sample libraries, no crippled evaluation versions of other software, no arbitrary hardware or software restrictions and absolutely no invasive copy protection system.
Included are over a dozen top-quality 64-bit ReaPlugs, the celebrated Elastique 2 real-time pitch shifting engine, full REX support, and literally hundreds of user-programmable effects.
What You Get
There's only one version of REAPER. One complete,
solid, full-featured digital audio workstation.
Your one-user, full-use license includes up to two major version numbers' worth of REAPER's famous frequent upgrades.
A REAPER 2.0 license would have included over 100 free upgrades!
Purchasing a license now includes upgrades through REAPER 5.99.
Your one-user, full-use license includes up to two major version numbers' worth of REAPER's famous frequent upgrades.
A REAPER 2.0 license would have included over 100 free upgrades!
Purchasing a license now includes upgrades through REAPER 5.99.
Additional Downloads
For the REAPER User Guide, quick start guides, REAPER extensions, video tutorials, user-created graphics themes, JS plugins, ReaScript documentation, and the REAPER SDKs, please see the resources page.
