6/12/2023 0 Comments Reaper for mac reviewI have an Alesis iO2 Express USB interface and an AKG P3S microphone which I really like. The last crucial bit of hardware is the audio input/output interface. Reaper does require a production class hard disk drive- 7200rpm spin speed, Oxford chip set, USB interface- the same as any other DAW. A personal use license (home studio, student or even a very small business) was only $60 USD! ($240 for a commercial license) Bonus: you can download a fully functional 60 day free trial, which is twice that of Pro Tools. Not the best PC in the world, but this old warhorse won’t run Pro Tools or Cubase, either. I put Reaper on an HP/Compaq nc6220 laptop with a 1.8GHz Centrino CPU and 1GB RAM. The second surprise: the downloadable installer was only 6MB, resulting in a 61 MB installed folder. Reaper only requires the Windows XP minimums: 512MB RAM and a 800Mhz CPU. Pro Tools 10, on the other hand, requires Windows 7 or OSX Snow Leopard on a dual core computer with a recommended 4GB of RAM. First of all, Reaper supports Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8 and MAC OSX any. I was treated to several pleasant surprises when I started digging through the Reaper web site. Reaper is published by Cockos Incorporated, the same folks who published WinAmp, the venerable alternative to Windows Media Player. I was able to find the Reaper web site ( ) via Google search. One of my sharper students thought it was a very good home studio software suite and merited a look. Of my students who had actually tried Reaper, most said they liked it in general, and that it was a fairly easy to use program. Popular programs include Ableton Live, Cubase and Garage Band, most of which come with audio interfaces or other studio gear. A significant number of my students, however, use something else besides Pro Tools. At LCC, we use Pro Tools 10 for the entire audio production sequence, as it is the audio industry standard. I had heard of it from several sources: several audio web portals, fellow instructors at Lansing Community College and my students. My main motivation for trying out Reaper was curiosity.
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