About
REAPER is a digital audio workstation. It is a complete multi-track environment for recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering audio and MIDI. Using your current computer and no other software, you can import any audio and MIDI, synthesize, sample, compose, arrange, edit, mix and master songs or any other audio project.
If you add a hardware audio interface of your choice (AD/DA: analog-to-digital/digital-to-analog) and a microphone, you have a complete recording studio. It's suitable for recording anything from soloists to bands and orchestras.
REAPER turns your computer into the full power of any top-notch recording studio. It will support almost any existing audio interface. Even interfaces manufactured by companies whose software does not allow the use of any other hardware interface.
REAPER does not have track types, buses, tools, or offline processing. If you want to create a drum bus, simply add a track above the drum tracks and click the folder button. The reels will automatically be sent to the folder. Once you've got the drum and FX levels exactly where you want them, you can record the folder output to non-destructively freeze the drums and move on.