Open-source alternatives to REAPER

REAPER is a digital audio workstation for recording audio and MIDI across many tracks, editing takes, routing signals, mixing and rendering finished files. The open-source workstations below cover that same record, edit and mix job on a Mac.

Ardour is the closer match in spirit: a track-based studio for tracking, non-destructive editing and mixing that hosts third-party plug-ins and control surfaces. Stargate takes a different route, pairing a pattern-based sequencer with its own built-in instruments and effects instead of loading outside plug-ins, so it suits self-contained production more than large tracking sessions.