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.

Contributing

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.

Contents

• Extensions
• JSFX
• Scripts
• Video Editing
• Scripting and JSFX development
  • General resources
  • JSFX / EEL2 resources
  • Lua resources
  • Python resources
• Developer resources
  • Documentation
    • General documentation and resources
  • Libraries
    • Nim
    • Python
    • Rust
• Learning
  • Articles
  • Books
  • Videos
• Community
  • Forums
  • Chats
    • Discord
    • Matrix
• Web sites

Extensions

• 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.
• SWS / S&M extension - A collection of features that seamlessly integrate into Reaper. A collaborative and open source project.

JSFX

• 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.

Scripts

• 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.

Video Editing

• ogler - VST plugin for writing video processing effects using GLSL shaders in Reaper. Forum thread.

Scripting and JSFX development

General resources

• ReaImGui - ReaImGui: ReaScript binding for Dear ImGui.

JSFX / EEL2 resources

• 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.

Lua resources

Python resources

Developer resources

Documentation

• JSFX API - The official JSFX API documentation.
• ReaImGui Documentation - The official ReaImGui documentation.
• ReaScript API - The official ReaScript API documentation.
• X-Raym Reascript API Documentation - Searchable and easy-to-read list of Reaper ReaScript API functions with common extensions support.

General documentation and resources

• 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.

Libraries

Nim

• ReaperExtensionNim - Nim bindings for the Reaper API.

Python

• reapy-boost - reapy is a pythonic wrapper around the quite unpythonic ReaScript Python API for Reaper.

Rust

• reaper-rs - Rust bindings for the Reaper C++ API.

Learning

Articles

• Mix Rescue by Mike Senior - A series of educational articles by Mike Senior featuring Reaper extensively.

Books

• The Reaper User Guide - By Geoffrey Francis. The essential guide to recording, editing and mixing with Reaper. Over 400 pages.

Videos

• 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.
• The Reaper Blog - Jon Tidey's YouTube channel. Release news, tips, tricks and tutorials.

Community

Forums

• Cockos Incorporated forums (official)

Chats

Discord

• 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.

Matrix

• #reaper_general:matrix.org - General discussion about the Reaper DAW.

Web sites

• ReaLinks - Showcase of tools and stuffs created by user community. Curated by X-Raym.

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