<aside> ⚠️ This document contains my notes on how I installed and configured a new installation of Reaper 7. At the moment these are in no particular order, and more so for my own tracking purposes, but hopefully I’ll try and clean this up at some point.

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• Table of Contents

Installation

• Download latest version of Reaper
• Install as Portable Install
  • Mac:
    • Put REAPER.app inside a folder
    • Create a blank plain text file named “reaper.ini” in the same folder. (Make sure that the file extension is “.ini” not “.txt”)
    • Launch Reaper
  • Windows
    • Simply check the option for portable installation when running the Reaper installer.

Updates

If you installed Reaper using the Portable Installation method described above, on all future updates you can simply replace the Reaper.app file inside the folder that has the application and other Reaper’s other files/folders.

Before I install any major Reaper updates, I like to first Zip my Reaper folder and name it something like Reaper Backup 2023-10-17 and stick it in a folder with my other Reaper archives. This way if there are any issues with the new version of Reaper I can easily go back to an older version.

SWS Extension

• Quit Reaper
• Download the SWS Reaper Extension
• Install SWS files. Remember that you did a portable install so all the SWS files that you install should go somewhere within the Folder that has your Reaper app.
• After you install everything find the reaper_sws-x86_64.dylib file inside your User Plugins folder and open it using Terminal. If you don’t do this, you operating system will mark this file as a security risk and Reaper wont be able to run it.
• Relaunch Reaper

<aside> ⚠️ I couldn’t get ReaPack to install with my fresh portable Reaper 7 install. So I simply went back to my Reaper 6 portable install and grabed the ReaPack dylib files from there and copy/pasted them into my Reaper 7 User Plugins folder.

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ReaPack Manager

• Quit Reaper
• Download the ReaPack Package Manger
• Follow the installation instruction but be sure to install things inside your Reaper folder (like the SWS Extension).
• After you install everything find the ReaPack x86_64.dylib file inside your User Plugins folder and open it using Terminal. If you don’t do this, you operating system will mark this file as a security risk and Reaper wont be able to run it.