Overview of Cockos REAPER 7.84:

Cockos REAPER 7.84 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 7.84 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 7.84?
(Released on 24-10-2026)
- Actions: fix actions to move left/right by grid when snap disabled and cursor is already on a grid division.
- Envelopes: add preference for envelope point edits to delete other envelope points that are passed through.
- Envelopes: soft-snap envelope point edits to existing points.
- FX browser: fix VST folder view of .vst3 directories.
- JSFX: config-options can support -preserve-all which will not reset any plug-in state on configuration change.
- JSFX: remove chmaha ports (7.83 addition) from installer/disk image/etc.
- JSFX: when instantiating new DPI-aware plug-in UIs, scale by hidpi.
- Render: fix render time remaining display when 2nd pass render is enabled.
Render
- Add $projectbase wildcard, resolved to project name with any auto-increment suffix removed.
- Add setting to show/hide track meters while rendering, defaults to hide.
- Do not calculate true peak unless displaying it.
- During postprocessing, report error if temporary files are not written correctly.
- Improve estimated time remaining calculation.
- Improve multi-core utilization somewhat when rendering multiple tracks/items in parallel.
- Progress bar reflects total render time including postprocessing.
- Reduce the number of open file handles when postprocessing.
- Show Region Manager or Region Matrix button conditionally depending on what is being rendered.
- Support changing render stats/charts settings from render settings dialog.
- Support limiting offline render to 2x realtime.
- Support rendering with no loudness calculation at all (faster).
- When rendering a time region, resolve item-related wildcards based on the only item that exactly matches the time range, or the best-matching selected item that falls entirely within the range.
JSFX
- Adjust titles of some built-in volume adjustment plug-ins.
- Fix spectrum analyzer DC offset readout.
- Super8 supports new knob mode for adjusting parameters.
- Move many legacy JSFX to ‘Hidden FX’ by default.
- Support hiding of cursor (knob mode) via setting mouse_cap 65536 bit in @gfx.
- Support setting MIDI note/CC program names via set_midi_note_name().
- Slider_automate() can now accept large powers of two for addressing sliders by index.
- Preprocessor now defines jsfx_has_set_midi_note_name, max_sliders.
Automation
- Override volume/pan/etc temporarily during touch when in read mode.
- Improve behavior of wet knob touch in read mode.
- Latch FX delta/bypass toggles as preview when tweaking in read mode.
- Add preference to allow creating mute envelopes automatically in touch/write modes.
Linux
- Fix ‘Send all keyboard input to plug-in’ for JSFX.
- Improve clipping of child controls to parent windows/scrollbars/etc.
- Improve IME support for surrounding-text.
- Support fallback font list for missing glyphs in reaper.ini .swell section (allows more seamless unicode character support).
ReaScript
- Add GetSetProjectInfo() read-only support for ARRANGE_PROJECT_H ARRANGE_PROJECT_PINNED_H ARRANGE_PROJECT_YOFFS.
- Fix backwards compatibility of GetSetMediaItemInfo(D_FADEINDIR, D_FADEOUTDIR).
- Fix potential crash when closing multiple ReaScripts from within a ReaScript.
- Support hiding of cursor (knob mode) via setting mouse_cap 65536 bit.
- Support TrackFX_GetNamedConfigParm(‘GainReduction_dB’) for CLAP plugins that support gain reduction metering.
Batch converter
- Optionally show peaks preview while converting, support audio preview after converting.
- Support applying per-file gain adjustment from command line.
- Support normalizing only files that are too quiet from the command line.
Big clock
- Add $diskspace, $diskrectime wildcards.
- Fix setting custom text color (7.81 regression).
Default theme adjuster
- Improve support for localized text drawing.
- Fix ‘Show raw theme parameters page’ not always showing its controller state.
Envelope manager
- Allow adding multiple MIDI learn assignments per parameter/context.
- When multiple learns active, show count.
FX
- Always create new FXID for track-default FX.
- Do not reset last-selected FX when dragging closed chain elsewhere.
FX browser
- Add ‘Hidden FX’ folder, add FX to this folder to hide from all non-folder views in FX browser.
- Do not show empty plug-in defined categories/developers if plug-in is not available/removed.
- Improve VST folder view with respect to .vst3 bundles.
Grid
- Fix snap to samplerate-quantized grid in various instances including Quantize Items.
- Make visible grid snap to samplerate if snap-to-project-samplerate is enabled.
macOS
- Fix resize issues in recent macOS versions introduced by the fix in 7.81.
- Improve hit testing for touch screens.
- Fix macOS finding of loopback devices that were imported from a Windows install [311930].
Media explorer
- Highlight filename of currently-playing file if not selected.
- Add theme customizable playing-item text color, dark mode unwritten-metadata color.
- Fix toolbar positioning issues on Windows multimonitor HiDPI.
MIDI/OSC Learn
- Add support for send volume/pan/mute learn.
- Add support for track volume/pan/width/mute/solo/record arm/fx bypass.
ReaFIR
- Avoid possible generation of incorrect samples in compressor mode.
- Correct display of DC offset field.
- Correct handling of DC offset field in gate/compressor modes.
Windows dark mode
- Add themable color for checkbox focus indicator.
- Fix issue with listbox selection color on some systems.
- Reduce light flashes when opening some windows and system animations are disabled.
Audio Units
- Fix incorrect state loading with some plug-ins that require use of kAudioUnitProperty_ClassInfoFromDocument.
Color chooser
- Add option in Preferences > Appearance to use OS-provided color chooser on macOS/Windows.
Fixed lane comping
- Improve behavior when default crossfade is very long.
Import
- List .aac files as supported media in file import dialogs.
Keyboard mappings
- Fix various keys incorrectly resetting to their assumed US-keyboard counterparts on reload of mappings (macOS/Linux).
Media decoding
- Fix playback issue when seeking past end of file for FLAC/Vorbis/Opus.
MIDI editor
- Tweak dark mode color of piano roll keys to be closer to 7.80.
MP3 decoder
- Improve performance when media item extends past end of file.
Sample edits
- Add preference to highlight sample edits in arrange view even when zoomed out, disabled by default.
Slip editing
- Fix incorrect sample rounding on initial move.
Source properties
- If multiple media items selected, support viewing properties for only the clicked item, or multiple items sequentially.
VST3
- Fix changing bus size for some plug-ins.
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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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