<aside> 👉🏻 Guide created by Daniel Dehaan, 2021-10-13

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<aside> ⚠️ Before starting this guide, make sure that you have successfully installed the BBCSO Discover Orchestral virtual instrument library by Spitfire Audio. Here is a step-by-step installation guide to assist you with that.

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• Table of Contents

Overview:

While Reaper tends to be a little bit more of the tinkering musician's DAW, often a little bit of tinkering yields some pretty hefty workflow enhancement. In this case, taking a little bit of time to configure a few extensions turns Reaper into an awesome DAW for creating orchestral music.

Installation & Configuration:

Reaper

First make sure that you have installed the latest version of Reaper.

<aside> ⚠️ Reaper 6.37 was the current version at the time of writing this guide.

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SWS Extension

The SWS Extension is a set of user-created add-ons that extended and enhance the functionality of Reaper.

Installation

1. Quit Reaper.
2. Download the correct version of the SWS Extension for your operating system.
3. Open the downloaded content and follow the included installation instructions.
4. Restart Reaper.

<aside> ⚠️ Warning! Your Mac computer may think that the downloaded files are a security risk, so you may need to manually "Approve" each of the SWS files after moving them into their correct installation location.

You can approve each file by right-clicking on it and selecting "Open." You then will see a pop-up notification asking if you would really like to open this file, click "Open" or "Yes."

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ReaPack

ReaPack is a package manager for Reaper extension. It can be used to discover, install, and update Reaper resources including ReaScripts, JS effects, extensions, themes, language packs, templates, web interfaces, and more.