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What REALIVE Does

The complete feature list. Every group links into the User Guide.

REALIVE turns REAPER into a live playback system built for musicians — backing tracks that follow the band rather than the other way round.

169 features across 18 areas. Read the User Guide

What's new Latest

v7.3

  • Running Click — play a standalone click while stopped, then start playback on the next beat or bar
  • Transport bar — new Running Click button; Option-click for a full-bar click, or right-click for Click options
  • Count-In — play a count-in before starting playback at the current cursor position (CMD-Spacebar or CMD-PLAY button)
  • Performance View — a comprehensive window to control REALIVE without working directly in the main computer interface
  • Audio Routing — new streamlined toolbar with dropdown menus
  • Faster language switching
  • Liobox: Added support for colors and running click indications
  • Project Browser — new Recent RPL mode in the File menu
  • Half-region navigation — jump to previous or next bars, region ends, and region midpoints (for example, bar 4 in an eight-bar region)
  • Live/Edit View button — right-click to show the Performance View window
  • Improved overall responsiveness
  • New style skins — select a theme from Menu / Options / Themes

v7.289

  • Adding a cue no longer interrupts audio routing when you start the song at the same moment
  • Faster pitch editing — quicker to move from the original key to a new one, and quicker formant build-up
  • Fixed the "Menu/Options/Click/Click sound..." menu not changing the sound in some cases
  • Small fixes across the Playlist, Transport and Main toolbar
  • Sync razor edits and track selection

v7.286

  • Running click — a click that isn't tied to the timeline, fired on its own while the song is stopped
  • Transport bar — a Running Click / Panic button
  • Playlist rewritten — better performance with large setlists, easier pop-edit, and a stronger search
  • Edit the setlist from a MIDI controller
  • Close all selected projects at once
  • Pinnable lyrics display — and the lyrics view no longer drops when you switch to Audio Routing
  • Quick Cue Search — better results
  • Routing mode now shown in the Audio Routing view
  • Gooroo (Liobox 2) — simplified setup and improved workflow
  • Control-surface refinements, CPU optimisation and assorted bug fixes

v7.282

  • A new Audio Routing toolbar
  • MIDI control refinements
  • Gooroo (Liobox 2) implementation, plus small bug fixes

v7.280

  • MIDI Control Assignments window — drive the Audio Routing faders from MIDI
  • MIDI Learn window improvements
  • Snap-grid settings from a Main toolbar button
  • Cue-search fixes, plus small bug fixes

v7.279

  • Project browser, including Recent RPL files from the File menu
  • MIDI Monitor — filter by CC number, and enable or disable every channel at once
  • Audio Device ignore list
  • SMPTE window — keyboard editing
  • Setlist copy options
  • Zoom out past the ends of a song
  • Removing and inserting time behaves better now

v7.278

  • A preference to mute Production MIDI tracks while a section loops

v7.275

  • Rendering refinements
In the guide →

Songs and setlists

  • Each song is its own project — portable, and a problem in one can't affect the rest
  • Up to 1000 songs open at once; around 500 is comfortable on a normal computer
  • Whole setlist stays loaded, so any song starts instantly
  • One song can start while another is still playing — real crossfades, segues and medleys
  • Playlists saved as simple text files you can read and edit
  • Drag to reorder; drag in audio files, folders or whole projects
  • Search a setlist by name
  • Merge another playlist into the current one
  • Separators to divide sets, services or segments
  • Place holders for slots that aren't songs — speeches, videos, breaks
  • Colour-tinting by set block
  • Set timing: elapsed, remaining, total, and current song length
  • Export the running order as text, with keys and tempos
  • 127 assignable actions to jump to any song from a key or controller
  • Save every open song and the playlist with one command
  • Consolidate a whole show into one folder
  • Extract selected regions into separate songs — or split a whole imported set into one song each
In the guide →

Live navigation

  • Navigate a song's structure while it plays
  • Cursor and playback are separate: line up the destination, then commit
  • Move by section, measure, four measures, or grid division
  • Navigate to the previous or next region midpoint and region end — including halfway through an eight-bar section
  • Seek without dropping a beat — REALIVE waits for the musical moment
  • Seek at the end of the bar, the end of the section, or immediately
  • Seek with offset: bar 3 of verse 1 jumps to bar 3 of verse 2
  • Cycle seek modes from a single button
  • Seeks cancel if you change your mind; late seeks are ignored rather than played badly
  • Move between songs mid-performance without stopping
  • Next Section window when the upcoming section is off screen
  • Transport Info window shows exactly what's about to happen, colour-coded
  • Three-stage stop: stop here, return to start point, reset everything
In the guide →

Looping

  • Loop any section instantly, release when ready
  • Guide cues mute automatically while looping
  • Loop counts: repeat a section a set number of times
  • Infinite loops for open-ended moments
  • Contextual looping — area selection, time selection, loop points or current section
  • Loops placed on the timeline as markers, so they happen by themselves
  • Section repetition is announced, including the last time through
  • Live Looping mode locks separate songs to a common tempo
In the guide →

Click and guide cues

  • Click track built automatically from your song structure
  • Nearly 300 spoken cues in eight groups
  • English, French and Spanish, with multiple voices
  • Separate cue mixes for band and vocalists, assigned automatically
  • Count-ins: half bar, one bar, two bars, cycling, odd meters
  • Count-In function plays a click count-in before starting at the cursor position
  • Running click — a beat before the song so the band finds the tempo, or a standalone click you trigger while the song is stopped, independent of the timeline
  • Solo click for recovery: beat, measure, or freewheel with percussion still playing — solo-click beat launches a running click when triggered while stopped
  • Fade into solo click rather than cutting
  • Add your own click sounds by dropping files in a folder
  • Accent notes, click volume following velocity, division click control
  • Cues can announce the section you're seeking to
  • Cue generation refreshes without wiping your custom cues, with better collision handling
  • Global mode: click and cues live centrally, triggered by MIDI
  • Cleaner recovery switching from global click and cues back to a song's own cues
  • Cue language locked per song when a set mixes languages
In the guide →

Tempo and key

  • Change tempo live — takes effect on the next bar, on the beat
  • Tap tempo, with the display blinking at the current tempo
  • Half time, double time, fine increments
  • Tempo list showing every change in the song, editable
  • Warp, time and beat modes for how audio follows tempo changes
  • Find the tempo from a time selection
  • Time signature changes, including compound meters
  • Triplet feel conversion that does the arithmetic for you
  • Change key live, limited to a safe range
  • Formant correction so transposed vocals still sound right
  • Key changes apply to selected items only, if you want
  • Reference tones and a chord piano through the cue bus
In the guide →

Building songs

  • Conductor Track Build: markers become a playable song in about a second
  • Regions, structure display, click track and guide cues all generated
  • Marker abbreviations — type v for verse, c for chorus
  • Counts added automatically where a band needs them, skipped on repeats
  • Rebuild after edits without losing custom cues
  • Action markers that change song, loop, stop or trigger the drone
  • Stop marker in every song, movable
In the guide →

Importing

  • Import stems and have them sorted into folders automatically
  • Over 200 instrument name rules; vocals forced to mono
  • Import an Ableton Live set directly
  • Import audio from a URL, straight onto the reference track
  • Detect tempo from file or folder names
  • Consolidate all audio into the project folder
In the guide →

Audio routing

  • One routing project feeds the whole show — change an output once, every song follows
  • Scales the same way from three songs to three hundred
  • Mixer, patch list and routing matrix views
  • Dedicated Audio Routing toolbar with streamlined dropdown menus
  • Routing assignment window with presets and copy-to-clipboard
  • Outputs already in use are marked, so you don't double-assign
  • Dual mono and reverse dual mono
  • Hard limiters on the output buses
  • Effects across the whole show, not per song
  • Always-online mode for instruments and effects that must stay live between songs
  • Offline mode between songs to save CPU
In the guide →

Devices and line check

  • Line check speaks each output in turn so one person can walk the stage
  • Check everything, or click and cues only
  • Automatic audio device detection on macOS — connect or disconnect and REALIVE reacts
  • Devices you've never used are ignored
  • Recover from a dropped interface without stopping the show
  • Playback buffering tuned for fast starts or maximum stability
  • Warning before playback if the audio device is missing
In the guide →

Timecode

  • SMPTE timecode out to lighting, video or any system that follows a clock
  • Frame rate is global — change once, every song follows
  • Freewheel MTC
  • Timecode can't be assigned to an output already carrying audio
  • Included in stem renders, excluded from mixdowns
  • Set up automatically during a line check
In the guide →

Lyrics

  • Paste lyrics in and REALIVE places them against the song's sections
  • Import from RTF with colours, italics and underlining intact
  • One blank line for a new group, two for a new section — that's the whole syntax
  • Repeated sections handled once, ordered automatically
  • On-screen display showing the current line and the next
  • Adjustable anticipation so lyrics arrive before they're sung
  • Prompter view on any phone or tablet
  • Colour-code one singer's lines
  • A built-in help file, opened from the [?] button on the Add Lyrics window
  • Lyric strip: a slim single-line display for tight screen space
In the guide →

Live pitch correction

  • Auto-Tune runs in REAAT, a separate companion app
  • A plugin crash can't take your show down
  • Lowest possible latency, tuned independently of playback
  • Waves Tune Real-Time and Antares Auto-Tune, including the UAD version
  • Up to 16 channels — one per singer
  • Key, scale, speed, transition, amount and bypass controlled from REALIVE
  • Correction key follows the song key, so transposing a song retunes the singer
  • Over forty scales, from major and minor through modes to Maqams and ragas
  • Parameter changes placed anywhere on the timeline
  • Build the Auto-Tune Portable install with one action
In the guide →

Show control

  • Lighting cues fired from the song timeline, identical every night
  • Video and LED screen control via Resolume
  • Presentation software follows the song — ProPresenter, EasyWorship and similar
  • Program changes with bank select, to put a keyboard rig on the right patch
  • Continuous controller messages for anything else
  • Song number sent automatically on playback
  • 16 MIDI channels per type
  • External gear resynced when you move the playhead
In the guide →

Control

  • Run everything from the computer keyboard
  • MIDI controllers, foot pedals and control surfaces
  • Ready-made templates for common controllers
  • Automatic detection, with a window showing what's mapped to what
  • The same buttons navigate, change tempo, or change key depending on the view
  • Web remote on any phone, tablet or laptop on the network — nothing to install
  • Full control page, information page, stage view, and lyrics prompter
  • Every command assignable to any key or button
  • MIDI Learn: build a controller map by moving the controls, then use it in the Control Surface Setup window
  • MIDI Monitor: watch MIDI coming in and going out, live
In the guide →

Rendering

  • Mixdowns, stems, buses, or click and cues
  • Render several songs at once, named and numbered in setlist order
  • Respects the routing project's mutes and levels — what you hear is what you get
  • Normalisation
  • Reassemble a multi-song bounce
  • MIDI export with tempo and time signature data
In the guide →

Drone pad

  • Sustained pad tuned to the song's key
  • Ten sounds, three octaves
  • Triggered from a window, an action marker, a key, a controller or the transport
  • Follows key changes and chases through seeks and song changes
  • Fade out or stop
  • Can follow the solo click automatically
In the guide →

Interface

  • Live view built to be read from a stage
  • Performance View window for comprehensive control without working in the main REAPER interface
  • Right-click the Live/Edit View button to open Performance View
  • Edit view for normal DAW work
  • REALIVE and Ableton-style visual themes, selectable from Menu / Options / Themes
  • Custom transport bar with tempo, key, sections, timecode and setlist timing
  • Clock, timecode display and next-section indicator
  • Screen and computer kept awake during a show
  • Interface zoom
  • Windows dock where you put them
  • Nudge BPM, key, pad and sections with up/down arrows on the transport bar
  • Jump to any marker from the transport bar's Status section
In the guide →

Requirements

  • macOS and Windows
  • REAPER 7.79 or later
  • SWS, JS_API and ReaImGui extensions included
  • Control Surface Integrator included
In the guide →