Does Reaper Run on Linux?
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REAPER supports Linux on Intel and ARM architectures, and the Windows version works well with WINE. REAPER supports macOS versions from 10.5* to 11 (Big Sur). Some features may require macOS 10.7+.

Does REAPER work well on Linux?

Not only is Linux a viable platform/OS for Reaper, I actually get better CPU performance than on Windows. The bigger issue is the lack of support by plugin developers. Once you start running windows plugins in Wine, it cancels out most of the gains.

How do I download REAPER on Ubuntu?

First we need to download Reaper from #linux_download select the x86_64 bit version. At the time of this post the release is 6.09. Extract the downloaded file to ~/reaper which will create the reaper_linux_x86_64 sub directory. Open a terminal session and change to ~/reaper directory.

Chloe Bennett

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