REAPER has always been lacking in the non-linear loop-based music creation tool category. A session view like in Ableton Live has been requested many times over the years. One user, Benjamin Klum figured out a way to built a similar functionality for REAPER in a new REAPER-only VST called Playtime. Playtime is available now for Windows and OSX.

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I have an interview with the creator Ben coming up in a few days.

Find out more about Playtime.

Official discussion thread on the REAPER forum.

 


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7 responses to “Playtime is the Live style session view for REAPER you’ve been begging for”

  1. Brian kirkpatrick Avatar
    Brian kirkpatrick

    Can’t wait to get this! Hope the Mac version is out soon! High praise to the developers. Loops absolutely need this type of interface. Thanks! Mac version soon please!!

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  3. Aidan Avatar

    I was wondering will it automap to controllers such as the akai APC and this is the real front line of live these days…also wondering will reaper have this new auto mapping technology updated if they haven’t already and I just don’t know

    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      I don’t know for sure. Probably not automatically. I had a quick look at the APC40 faq and saw this:

      Can I use the APC40 or APC20 with other programs?

      Both the APC40 and APC20 were designed to be controllers for Ableton Live. That said, you can use it in other programs but you will have to manually map it out in the other programs. Akai Pro will not be issuing any MIDI control templates for other DAWs and programs. If you do manually map things, a DAW with the learn feature in MIDI mapping mode will be easier to map than one without. You cannot change the MIDI note numbers and CC numbers that your APC is assigned to.
      – See more at: http://www.akaipro.com/product/apc40#faqs

      You can use ReaControlMIDI to see which CC or Note numbers are output by the APC.

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