Reaper is a proprietary digital audio production application, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset.
Reaper supports a vast range of hardware, digital formats and plugins, and can be comprehensively extended, scripted and modified.
A curated list of Reaper resources, scripts, extensions, JSFX, software and community links.
This project promotes freely-available resources and content and can't be used as an advertisement platform for a commercial product. We welcome everything which meets our quality standards, such as:
- Free Software / Open Source programs, libraries, extensions and scripts.
- Non-paywalled media, videos, podcasts, articles.
- Freely distributed books, courses, etc.
See CONTRIBUTING.md file for details on Quality standards, Contribution and Commit and Pull Request guidelines as well as a primer on Git-based collaboration.
- Extensions
- Software and tools
- JSFX
- Scripts
- Video Editing
- Scripting and JSFX development
- Developer resources
- Learning
- Community
- Web sites
- OSARA - REAPER extension which aims to make REAPER accessible to screen reader users. A collaborative and open source project. Repo.
- ReaLlm - Low latency monitoring plug-in extension (automatically bypass plugins adding latency). Forum thread.
- ReaPack - Package manager for Reaper. Discover, install and keep up to date your Reaper resources. Repo, Forum thread.
- SWS / S&M extension - A collection of features that seamlessly integrate into Reaper. A collaborative and open source project. Repo, Forum thread.
- ReaBoot - A convenient all-in-one online installer for REAPER, ReaPack and arbitrary packages by Helgoboss. Repo, Forum thread
- geraintluff/jsfx - Collection of JSFX effects by Geraint Luff (aka geraintluff). Repo, Youtube playlist, forum thread.
- JoepVanlier/JSFX - A bundle of JSFX and scripts by Joep Vanlier (aka saike).
- TukanStudios/JSFX - A bundle of JSFX by John Matthews (Tukan Studios). Repo, Youtube.
- ReaTeam ReaScripts - Community-maintained collection of scripts for REAPER
- Stem Manager - Easily create stems by saving and recalling multiple sets of solo and mute states, run different sets of rules and actions for rendering, control render queue. Repo.
- ogler - VST plugin for writing video processing effects using GLSL shaders in Reaper. Forum thread.
- ReaImGui - ReaImGui: ReaScript binding for Dear ImGui.
- ReaImGui Knobs - A port of imgui-rs-knobs to lua for ReaImGui by Antoine Balaine. Forum thread.
- ReaScripts-Templates - Templates, models, boilerplates, examples and snippets for REAPER ReaScript, for easier scripts creations. Forum thread.
- CodeBase - A "multi in multi out modern compiler" and JSFX/EEL-to-VST Building system. Forum thread.
- CookDSP - DSP library for JSFX by Olivier Bélanger. Repo.
- JS2EEL - A compiler that enables you to write REAPER JSFX in JavaScript by Daniel Schebesta. Repo. Forum thread.
- ReaScript VSCode Extension - Reaper's ReaScript API methods in Visual Studio Code. Forum thread, Repo.
- JSFX API - The official JSFX API documentation.
- ReaImGui Documentation - The official ReaImGui documentation.
- ReaScript API - The official ReaScript API documentation.
- X-Raym's Reaper Action List - Interactive web page with the list of available Reaper actions, including internal and a selection of third-party ones. Forum thread.
- X-Raym's Reascript API Documentation - Searchable and easy-to-read list of Reaper ReaScript API functions with common extensions support.
- C++ Language Documentation - The Microsoft C++ documentation.
- C++ Reference
- Lua Documentation - The official Lua documentation. See also: awesome-lua/Resources.
- Python Documentation - The official Python documentation. See also awesome-python/Resources.
- reaper-with-typescript-starter - JavaScript/TypeScript Reaper API bindings and a script template utilizing the TypeScriptToLua transpiler. Forum Thread.
- ReaperExtensionNim - Nim bindings for the Reaper API.
- reapy-boost - reapy is a pythonic wrapper around the quite unpythonic ReaScript Python API for Reaper.
- reaper-rs - Rust bindings for the Reaper C++ API.
- AdmiralBumbleBee's tips - A wide variety of tips: script showcase, configuration guide, accessibility, ReaScript tutorials.
- Mix Rescue by Mike Senior - A series of educational articles by Mike Senior featuring Reaper extensively.
- SeventhSam's tutorials - Guides on using Reaticulate for managing samples and setting up Reaper's MIDI editor, especially useful for orchestral composers. Forum thread.
- The Reaper User Guide - By Geoffrey Francis. The essential guide to recording, editing and mixing with Reaper. Over 400 pages.
- Daniel Lumertz Talk - ReaScript and adaptive music tutorials. "How To Reascript" playlist (forum thread).
- IDDQDSound - Tutorials, tips, sound design, and scripting.
- Let's Talk About Reaper - Myk Robinson's channel. Videos about Reaper, drums, guitar, home studio magic, and more.
- Reaper Mania - The home of Kenny Gioia's Reaper Tutorials. Facebook group.
- Reapertips - Alejandro Hernandez's YouTube channel. Tips, tricks and tutorials.
- The Reaper Blog - Jon Tidey's YouTube channel. Release news, tips, tricks and tutorials. Facebook group.
- X-Raym's Tutorials - X-Raym's tutorials, demos and making-of. ReaScript Course playlist.
- Cockos Incorporated forums (official)
- r/Reaper subreddit - An unofficial Reddit community for and by users of Reaper.
- Cockos Reaper Users - An older server by Audbol, originated form the Reaper forums.
- The Unofficial Reaper Users Group - A server started by Myk Robinson from "Let's Talk About Reaper" YouTube channel.
- #reaper_general:matrix.org - General discussion about the Reaper DAW.
- ReaLinks - Showcase of tools and stuffs created by user community. Curated by X-Raym.
- The Reaper Accessibility Wiki - A community-maintained wiki written in an accessible format for screen readers. Tips, scripting, and tutorials.