Overview of Cockos REAPER 7.56:

Cockos REAPER 7.56 Patched comprehensive and flexible feature set and renowned stability have found a place where digital audio is used: commercial and home studios, broadcast, outdoor recording, education, science and research, sound design, software development, games, etc.
Cockos REAPER is a tool that allows you to record, edit, mix, render, and organize multitrack audio waveforms. It has complex features, so it was designed for advanced users.
Cockos REAPER Full Version interface is user-friendly and easy to use (by experts). It is divided into several areas: main menu, context menu, main window toolbar, track control panel, main window, and control area. edition, timeline, and mixer. It is also possible to display other areas, such as Floating Mix Master, Big Clock, Dynamic Split, Effects Browser, Transport Bar, and Virtual MIDI Keyboard.
Cockos REAPER 7.56 Key Features:
Record
- Audio and MIDI recording and overdubbing. The number of simultaneous recording entries is only limited by your hardware.
- Record directly to one of the dozens of supported audio formats at any sample rate or bit depth.
- Any track can record audio or MIDI input or record processed audio or the MIDI output of the track.
- Record multiple takes or layers, overdub, punch in and out, or record in a single loop.
- Record arming and releasing tracks without stopping playback.
- Record directly to stereo, surround, or multi-channel audio files, before or after effects processing.
- Monitor input with or without FX software.
- Set up multiple monitor mixes with different effects processing.
- Varispeed tape-style recording and playback.
- Record to multiple drives simultaneously for redundancy and scalability.
Produce
- Drag and drop to import, organize, and render.
- Freely mix audio, MIDI, video, and still images on any track.
- Move, split, paste, resize, cut, rotate, time-lapse, pitch change, fade, crossfade, drag, and fit on-grid easily without changing tools.
- Intuitive zoom, scroll, scrub, jog, tab to audio transients, and MIDI navigation.
- A simple and powerful nested folder system allows group editing, routing, and moving in one step.
- Open multiple projects simultaneously in separate tabs.
- Full automation of recording, playing, and editing support for tracks and media takes control of plug-ins.
- Easily manage changes in tempo, time signature, and rhythm.
- Divide audio or MIDI into freely adjustable pickups and tracks for easy composition.
- Easily copy or move regions to try out alternative settings quickly.
- Comprehensive and flexible multi-channel support. Each track supports up to 64 channels, which can be routed individually.
Transform
- Includes almost all third-party audio or MIDI plugins: VST, VST3, VSTi, DX/DXi (Windows only), AU/AUi (macOS only), and JS.
- Apply effects in real-time or render output effects non-destructively.
- Real-time network effects processing: Use other local machines as effects farms.
- Includes the JSFX audio and MIDI plugin script engine, and hundreds of user-programmable effects.
- Reinstall any capable application (audio and MIDI) for more flexibility.
- Automatic plug-in delay compensation (PDC).
- State-of-the-art performance and multi-processor use.
- Native connector and firewall: run 32-bit plug-in on REAPER x64, maximize RAM usage, and protect and recover from plug-in crashes.
- All sidechain plugins, even if they don’t support native sidechains.
- Real-time pitch change, correction, and stretching. Includes time-stretch engines, including Elastique 3 Pro.
- Includes ReaSurround, for spatial visualization and processing of stereo, surround, or multichannel audio (up to 64 channels).
- Dedicated user plug-ins for virtualizing external hardware, handling MIDI signals, streaming audio, connecting to NINJAM servers, and more.
Customize
- Fully customizable appearance – change colors, icons, toolbar, layout, and almost anything. Switch between multiple formats as needed for different tasks.
- The Cockos REAPER docking station window can be shown, hidden, docked, or displayed on a separate monitor. Record and store screen sets for various tasks.
- Almost anything REAPER can do, literally thousands of actions, singly or in sequence, can be triggered by pressing a button, toolbar button, or external controller.
- It can be extended easily. Develop simple macros or complex extensions in Lua, EEL, or Python.
- Very stretchy. Includes an integrated development environment for compiling, editing, and testing ReaScripts.
Intangibles
- REAPER starts and loads quickly – get ready to record in seconds.
- Almost anything can be done on the fly while playing or recording – add/remove effects, edit, edit other project tabs.
- Portable – Put the REAPER in your pocket and launch it from a USB stick or other removable media.
- Strict code – installer size is around 10MB, updates usually install in less than a minute.
- Fast and efficient development – new features and optimizations are added quickly and frequently.
- It is a very active, enthusiastic, and helpful user forum, so get help fast.
- It’s a fantastic and readable user manual.
- An honest business model that aims to deliver the best possible user experience.
What’s new in Cockos REAPER 7.56?
(Released on 13-12-2025)
Track panels:
- Add new infoblock control to display contextual track information (optional, enable via Theme Adjuster script).
- Click infoblock area to enable/disable displaying various contextual information.
- Infoblock implemented via tcp_infoblock images, fallback text is used if tcp_infoblock is not found.
Render:
- Add render peaks display option to show file length in samples.
- Add render setting to enable/disable parallel postprocessing.
- Support rendering stereo and/or multichannel to per-channel mono files, via postprocessing dialog.
- Disable 2nd pass render option when normalizing video render.
- Fix auto-incrementing filename when rendering to both primary and secondary formats.
- Fix possible 1-sample file length discrepancy when rendering media items on multiple tracks.
- Fix rendered file length discrepancies that can occur in certain circumstances.
- Fix rendered file length when processing at project sample rate, resampling to final sample rate, and rendering multiple project regions (7.37 regression).
- If not postprocessing, finalize rendered files for each timeline range before rendering the next timeline range.
- Ignore saved project setting to bring FX online after load when rendering from the command line.
- Improve render speed when rendering many files and using FX that introduce latency.
- Improve render speed when rendering many very short files.
- Update render statistics more efficiently during render.
- Internal changes to filename handling and metadata.
- Limit display of rendered file list dropdown to about 100 files.
- Properly flush synth plug-ins when normalizing video render.
- Resolve wildcards like $item, $itemnotes even when not rendering selected items, by finding the media item within the render that best matches the rendered time range.
Auto-increment:
- Support separate preferences for ‘save new version of project’ suffix and ‘auto-increment filename’ suffix.
- Set default filename suffix to ‘-001’ (revert to pre-7.45 behavior), keep ‘save new version of project’ suffix as ‘_001’.
- Add preference to ensure file number comes after all existing similarly named files in the directory.
- Add preference to treat _ (underscore) and – (hyphen) as interchangeable when auto-incrementing filenames.
- Allow space characters in auto-increment suffix (for example, ‘ 001’).
Batch converter:
- Fix converting only selected files when unselected, unconverted files exist.
- Ignore $chid wildcard when not imploding/exploding.
- Support sorting file list.
Click source:
- Support following project tempo / time signature while customizing click pattern.
- Support setting to half speed.
Joysticks:
- Actions/buttons to reinitialize MIDI devices also re-open joystick devices.
- Opening configuration from device that failed to open will try to re-open the device if found.
macOS:
- Allow plug-ins to request access to system cameras.
- Improve display/handling of truncated UTF-8 strings.
Media import:
- Set take extension attribute ORIGINAL_FILENAME when media is copied to project path on import.
- If media contains unambiguous tempo information in cue/marker metadata, use it when tempo-matching.
ReaScript:
- Clarify documentation for gfx_measurechar().
- Fix GetMediaSourceFileName() for section/reverse sources.
Ruler:
- Add support for minutes:seconds (minimal) display format
- Fix performance issues/hangs at nonsensically-high measure offsets.
- Make label interval and tick mark spacing consistent when ruler display format is set to either time or frames.
Wildcards:
- Support $chid (channel ID), for use when rendering stereo/multichannel to mono files, ignored otherwise.
- Support $chid{N}(…) to name channels when exploding N-channel file, ignore for other channel counts.
- Support $projectnotes and $projectnotes(key) to display specific lines from project notes, see wildcard help for more information.
Windows:
- Fix tooltip UTF-8 display errors when long strings are truncated.
- Improve display/handling of truncated UTF-8 strings for display and accessibility.
Actions menu:
- If multiple key/MIDI bindings are mapped to recent actions, show all bindings in menu item.
Appearance:
- Do not draw new (7.55+) media item left edge overlay if media item is only a few pixels wide.
Audio Units:
- Prevent dropping of MIDI messages in certain instances.
Command line:
- Fix command line render occasionally canceling itself.
Debug console:
- Use fixed width font for debug console.
Filtering:
- Fix case matching for various non-ASCII characters that do not fold to ASCII.
Glue:
- Fix glue when preference set to create new MIDI as .mid files (7.46 regression).
JSFX:
- Avoid file_open(xml) trying to open files as MusicXML.
Media explorer:
- Don’t cancel incomplete peaks preview build when seeking with crossfade enabled.
Media item properties:
- Support displaying and editing take section source start and length in time, beats, samples, or frames.
Metronome:
- Support setting to half speed.
MIDI:
- Avoid potential dropped notes at end of MIDI items.
MIDI editor:
- Add option in View menu to disable displaying note names on piano roll keys.
Parameter modulation:
- Increase precision of configuration display.
Ripple:
- Import media preference ‘insert empty space when ripple is enabled’ also affects pasting media (when disabled, existing media that starts to the left of the import position is unaffected).
Section source:
- Avoid drift when looping sections that are not a whole number of samples (5.20 regression).
Shutdown:
- Optimize unloading FX at exit.
Tempo markers:
- Fix editing tempo when tempo change position is in beats and previous tempo marker is set to gradually transition tempo.
WMF:
- Improve support for high unicode code points in filenames.
Worker threads:
- Optimize thread cleanup process.
Zoom:
- When maximum project length is set, decrease horizontal zoom-out limit.
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System Requirements:
- Operating System: Windows 7/8/10
- RAM: 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
- Hard Disk Space: 200 MB or more
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