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ReaPlugs VST FX Suite


Want to use some of the comprehensive FX plug-ins that REAPER provides, but stuck in another host? Haven't made the switch yet? Fear not -- you can download ReaPlugs, a package of FX that includes many of the plug-ins that come with REAPER, for free!

Download: ReaPlugs VST v1.12 (last updated March 16 2008)

Copyright (C) 2006-2007, Cockos Incorporated
VST PlugIn Technology by Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH


General features of ReaPlugs:
  • Support for Windows 98/ME/2K/XP/Vista, WINE.
  • Fast, usable UIs with good metering
  • Low CPU and RAM use
  • Highly configurable
  • No copy protection
  • No installation required (portable!)
  • Freely usable
Tour of the FX of ReaPlugs:

ReaComp
  • Ultra-configurable compressor
  • Soft knee support
  • Sidechain filters, sidechain inputs
  • Feedback compression mode
  • Program dependent auto-release mode
  • Variable RMS size
  • Oversampling antialias modes (with optional limiting)
  • Optional make-up gain
  • Optional lookahead
  • Wet/dry mix
  • Low CPU use
  • Useful metering

ReaXcomp
  • Unlimited band compressor
  • Great metering per band
  • Fantastic sounding filters
  • Solo current band mode
  • Tons of controls per band (ratio, threshold, knee, attack, release, makeup, program dependent release, feedback detector, RMS size)
  • Adjusting bands in graph is easy (modifiers to change ratio, gain, etc).

ReaDelay
  • Multi-tap delay, no practical limit on tap count
  • Up to 10 second delay per tap
  • Tap lengths can be in time (s/ms) or quarter notes
  • Feedback, LPF/HPF, resolution reduction per tap
  • Stereo width per tap
  • Volume/pan per tap

ReaEQ
  • Unlimited band IIR based equalizer
  • Support for any number of many types of filters (shelfs, bands, LPF, HPF, notch, bandpass, allpass)
  • Frequency response and phase response display
  • Display of approximate note+octave for frequencies
  • Per-band bypass control
  • Full-view of graph optional for precise editing
  • Mouse modifiers/mousewheel usable for editing bandwidth of points in graph

ReaFIR
  • FFT based dynamics processor (requires host plug-in delay compensation)
  • Supports FFT sizes of 128-32768.
  • Useful in/out frequency response display
  • Supports defining response curves both using any number of points, or freehand mouse
  • EQ - can be used as a linear phase mastering EQ, or as a super-effective surgical EQ
  • Compressor - can compress at a fixed ratio with a per-band threshold
  • Gate - can gate with per-band threshold
  • Subtract - can build noise profiles and subtract noise from the signal

ReaGate
  • Ultra-configurable gate
  • Sidechain filters, sidechain input
  • Lookahead for pre-open
  • Hold control
  • Hysteresis control
  • Variable RMS size
  • Can send MIDI events on gate open/close
  • Wet/dry mix, noise mix (can add noise when gate is open)

ReaStream
  • Supports streaming from host to host of audio and/or MIDI over a LAN segment
  • Supports streaming from different host software on each end
  • Supports UDP broadcast for streaming one to many (if local network can keep up)