Cockos Incorporated

Cockos Incorporated develops REAPER, a digital audio workstation application for computers that provides multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering. The company sells REAPER licenses and provides frequent free software updates.www.reaper.fm

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Sep 8, 2026

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How Reaper’s Custom Actions Turn Automation Into Creative Power

Sep 8 · 2 Mentions

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Reaper was born in two thousand and five from a hobby project by Justin Frankel, a developer known for Winamp who wanted a lightweight yet feature-rich DAW that could run on any system.

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Over the years, Cockos kept iterating its action list as an official tool rather than a patch, and it grew into the core of Reaper's adaptability.

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Because the list is exposed through a UI and also via scripting, you can treat actions like code, editing, testing, version controlling, and reusing them across sessions or teams.

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The Actions window is the launchpad for everything.

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For example, I wrote a script that monitors a master bus level and automatically kicks an additional limiter if the RMS drops below two dB.

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It works seamlessly during mixing or mastering passes.

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ReaPack is Cockos' own package manager for scripts and extensions.

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It lets you browse, install, update, and remove collections of custom actions or ReaScripts from a community drive-in repo in under two clicks.