Why Reaper: Tutorials, Plugins, and Audio Production Resources
Why Reaper is for anyone who wants to learn music and audio production using their computer—and for anyone who teaches, or is interested in teaching, computer-based music and audio production.
What You’ll Find on Why Reaper
Our website is targeted broadly. We focus on providing cross-platform, free, and/or inexpensive options for professional audio production.
Our goal is to minimize guesswork while curating options that make Reaper comparable to substantially more expensive software packages.
On Why Reaper, you’ll find:
- A curated list of audio production resources, including professional-quality plugins that are free and cross-platform
- Practical Reaper DAW tutorials, including our Two-Minute (or So) Videos and text-based series covering editing, mixing, and workflow efficiency
- A section on music technology pedagogy for teachers, instructors, and professors working in classrooms and other instructional environments
- Articles exploring equitable, accessible, creative, innovative, professional, entrepreneurial, and critically engaged approaches to teaching music technology
- A blog featuring reviews, opportunities, and projects related to audio production, music technology, and pedagogy
Reaper has become our platform of choice for recording, mixing, mastering, and teaching—and this site explores why.
We will continue adding new tutorials, resources, and updated plugin lists as the site grows.