The non-commercial license is just $40, while anyone who makes money from their music should get a commercial license for $200. The full version of Reaper can be downloaded for evaluation with no time-limited features (Cockos describe it as uncrippled, unexpiring shareware), but if you're still using it after 30 days you should purchase a licence. Reaper runs on Windows 98, ME, 2000, NT, XP and Vista, although Windows 2000/XP/Vista are recommended, along with 1GB RAM. A preview Universal Binary version for Mac OS 10.4.x is also now available for download via the Cockos forums ( and the full Mac OS X version is promised by the last quarter of 2007. It nevertheless remains extremely compact, with a download size of just 2MB (you can just install these over the top of your existing version), and updates are still being released on an almost daily basis, so by the time you read this Reaper will no doubt already have plenty more features. Reaper 's initial PC-only preview release in December 2005 attracted a small but enthusiastic following of novice musicians, but Justin was so responsive to user requests and so prolific with his updates that by the time of its official shareware release in August 2006, Reaper already contained a huge number of new features.Īs more and more musicians tried it out, and more and more professional features were added, attitudes started to change, and Reaper is now being considered seriously by many people as an alternative to the leading commercial MIDI + Audio sequencers. Founded in 2004 by engineers tired of working within large companies, they have lots of previous experience, between them developing many well-known products - Reaper development is spearheaded by Justin Frankel, who created both Winamp and the Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing network. Into this world of heavyweights comes Reaper ('Rapid Environment for Audio Prototyping and Efficient Recording'), from developers Cockos Incorporated. There's also a groundswell of enthusiasm for simpler-to-use applications such as Mackie's Tracktion. Meanwhile, Samplitude is quietly gaining an enthusiastic following for its all-in-one approach, complete with on-the-fly CD burning, while Digidesign have been building up the sequencing functionality of their Pro Tools range. Both product ranges started life as MIDI-only, but gradually incorporated audio features as computers became more powerful. In Europe, Steinberg's Cubase/ Nuendo range has been incredibly popular, while in the US the home team are Cakewalk with their Sonar range. Traditionally there have always been two front-running MIDI + Audio PC sequencers. There seems to be a sea change going on at the moment in the world of PC sequencing, with many musicians considering changing platform, either by switching to Mac hardware so they can use Apple's Logic sequencer (loved by so many producers), or sticking with PC hardware but trying a different sequencing package. Reaper provides an easy-to-use skinnable interface with loads of Colour Schemes and display options, plus an incredibly versatile set of user options.Ĭan a 40-dollar shareware application take on the giants of the music software world and win? With its remarkable flexibility, advanced feature set and responsive development team, Cockos's Reaper has the potential to do just that.
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