Tutorial: How to Use Reaper First off, Reaper is programmed and maintained by a very slim, and lean programming group that is dedicated to Reaper only. This may sound less desirable than, for example, a large company with many, many programmers. 10.6.8 and 10.9.5, without any hiccups, Reaper 4.5 to latest 5. MBP mid '11, 2GHz, 8Gb. Used with RME UCX/Babyface, M-Audio Profire 2626/610 at lowest possible buffer sizes, recording up to 40 tracks simultaneously, monitored with VST EQs and comps and verbs and controlling it all via OSC from iPad.
REAPER is a complete digital audio production application for Windows and Mac OS X, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset. This wiki provides information for blind Reaper users. Whether you're a musician, songwriter, podcaster or audio/video editor, Reaper can more than serve your needs.
To start, you may wish to read how to download and install Reaper, Osara and SWS. You can also checkout these useful links and resources and the archived sites.
Also, we are starting to make accessible and adapt the following official documents, found on the reaper website and some others:
- official reaper user guide. Thanks to the author of the users guide, Geoffrey Francis' abundant generosity and patience the document is now properly tagged and can be read using your preferred screen reader and pdf reader. download from reaper's official site
- the Reaper plus! the power of sws extensions
Below you will find a contents section that lists every Reaper Accessibility article on this site written for users, by users of the reaper accessibility community.
Contents (user written articles)
Reaper Mac Manual Software
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- some ideas for editing midi in reaper using osara
- SIBIAC add on for NVDA an addon which aims to make third party fx or instrument plug-ins accessible
- Reaper and Osara Cookbook A problem and solution style guide to many tasks using Reaper with the Osara extension.
Reaper Mac Manual Downloads