Overview of Cockos REAPER 7.80:

Cockos REAPER 7.80 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 (for 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 7.80 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-ins 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 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 7.80?
(Released on 13-09-2026)
Pop/click
- Add ‘Edit > Repair Pops/Clicks’ dialog, to interactively find pops/clicks and apply sample-edit spectral repair.
- Add actions to go to next/previous detected audio pop/click.
CLAP
- Fix I/O possibly being set up incorrectly with some plugins.
- Hide non-automatable parameters from various REAPER automation interfaces.
- Support CLAP_EVENT_IS_LIVE.
- Support hovered-parameter draft spec via FX_getnamedconfigparm(param_hovered).
- Support linking MIDI program change to factory preset.
- Support requesting plug-in bus size.
Reascript
- Add midieditor_getsetting() support for timebase_unit, pixels_per_timebase_unit.
- Allow querying default value for FX parameters using FX_getnamedconfigparm(param.X.default_value).
- Fixing writing empty strings via set_config_var_string().
- Fix resolvewildcard() issues with background projects.
- Get_config_var_string()/set_config_var_string() support generic .ini file keys.
- Update TCP button display after changing track MIDI hardware output.
MIDI
- Do not snap MIDI media items to PPQ when pasting.
- Fix behavior when applying track volume as MIDI velocity and volume is set to -inf.
- Ignore media item take phase setting for MIDI items.
- Avoid changing editor active MIDI channel in response to adding undo points or saving state chunk.
Docks
- Rearrangement preview indicators use new theme color.
- Fix macos flicker when dragging tab and mousing over indicator.
- Improve drag/drop preview consistency, fix many corner cases with reorganizing docks/tabs/etc.
Envelope manager
- Fix behavior when canceling MIDI learn for FX on multiple tracks simultaneously.
- Fix undo points when modifying MIDI learn for FX on multiple tracks simultaneously.
FX
- Avoid incorrectly linking parameters of multiple FX if routing is set up like multi-mono/multi-stereo but the user has not explicitly set up parameter linking.
- When creating multi-mono/multi-stereo FX, automatically map all parameters of the primary instance to the container.
- In generic UI, display default position of parameters on faders, reset to default on double-click.
Media items
- Improve behavior when moving item contents, snap to grid enabled, and source media length is much smaller than snap size.
- Fix zombie stretch markers left behind when changing media item timebase from auto-stretch to time using the Media Item Properties dialog.
Musicxml
- Fix incorrect tempo map when importing files with certain time signatures.
- Reduce memory usage on import, fix potential memory leak when importing multi-track .mxl files.
Reasurroundpan
- Draw selected speaker in a slightly different color (customizable as ‘selspkcol’).
- Support custom speaker presets, to save/load speaker setups without affecting other plug-in settings.
Regions/markers
- Draw locked regions/markers slightly grayed out.
- Fix behavior when moving regions/markers containing other locked regions/markers.
Sample edits
- Combine sample edit repair and scale dialogs.
- Fix behavior when mono source is panned right.
Toolbars
- Fix toolbar button feedback for “Set project timebase to beats (position, length, rate)” when in auto-stretch mode.
- Relabel menu item ‘In Toolbar Docker’ to ‘In Docker’ for clarity.
Video
- Add ffmpeg 9.x support.
- Detect mov/mp4 XML metadata timecode as source media preferred position.
- Fix detecting rotation attribute for mp4 files that are greater than 4GB.
Actions
- Reset JSFX loudness meters on monitoring FX when resetting all track meters.
Automation
- Provide menu/action state feedback for actions like ‘Global automation override: All automation in touch mode’.
Colors
- Add actions to set track or item/take color based on focus.
Envelopes
- Enable ‘Preferences > Envelope Display/Editing > Prevent mouse edits of single envelope points from moving past other envelope points’ by default for new users.
Fades
- Add actions to enable/disable/toggle default fade-in/fade-out when recording or importing media items.
Import
- Fix importing non-REX files with embedded beat slice information when project tempo is lower than source tempo.
LV2
- Fix UTF-8 display of preset box on Windows.
Marquee zoom
- Fix behavior when zooming to a track below an expanded fixed lane track.
Razor edits
- Support pasting automation envelope razor edit areas to the master track.
Reasurround/reasurroundpan
- Improve button images when in dark mode on macos/Linux.
Render
- Handle unknown render formats more gracefully (for example, when moving projects between computers that support different video render formats).
RS5k
- When playing notes via combobox change, improve handling if ‘obey notes off’ is enabled.
Ruler
- Fix ruler lanes potentially remaining hidden for users with stale configuration settings.
Tempo
- Fix behavior of timebase ‘beats (auto-stretch at tempo changes)’ when project contains a gradual tempo change following an incomplete measure.
Track routing window
- Do not set window focus on undo/redo.
Transients
- Set default double-click value of tab-to-transient threshold slider to the same value as the factory default threshold setting.
VST3
- Workaround for plugins that attempt to open at a very tiny size.
API
- Fix playtime toolbar addition when toolbar is not already customized.
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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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