Any chance of a OSX/USB standalone?

I use reaper on a pc at home but the music college i attend uses entirely macs, and won't let us install software onto the mac network, It would be dead handy if my portable usb copy of reaper could work on a mac...

I think this is possible now... I know REAPER stores key commands, themes, extensions etc in ~library/application support/REAPER - im not sure but you *might* need to copy the contents of that folder and put them in the REAPER app itself on your memory stick. To do that you have to right click the REAPER app and choose "show package contents" and open the "Contents" folder...

I'd love to hear more about this. I dragged the Reaper.app from the .dmg to my USB stick, and the app itself seems to be working. A few questions though: - During first launch it took forever (10-15s per plugin) to check the installed plugins. Why? - During the plugin check pressing "Cancel" does not cancel the check. The check goes through and then Reaper crashes. - How do I get my prefs, keycommands, custom actions, etc? - Is it possible to use the SWS extension in the USB install? Edit: For the last two see my next post.

From the big guys themselves at reaper-irc: - Copy the folder ~/Library/Application Support/REAPER/ to your flash drive (USB mem stick). - Copy the Reaper.app to that same folder (in the flash drive). Now all the custom preferences, key commands, even SWS Extension etc should work when you run Reaper from that flash drive. Installed 3rd party plugins are ofcourse not transferred like this, they must be copied separately and the path set at Reaper preferences. Let's see what my teacher says about this when he sees me presenting my homework from a USB stick! They only have the inferior PT HD at the studio... it's not good enough for me!

Again, I am sooooo thankful the guys got rid of an OSX installer and went to "proper" OSX setups.

Nice. If this works this easily, I can certainly take a nice setup for both PC and Mac with me with no trouble. "Here's the Session and DAW for the PC" (presents USB stick) "We use Macs." "Oh ok, here you go." (presents HFS+ formatted USB stick) If relative paths for VST plugins work so they can be located on the stick as well, I'm on easy street with this rig.

1) Drag the ~/Library/Application Support/REAPER/ folder to a regular FAT formatted USB stick (that also has this and that). 2) Drag Reaper.app to that same folder on the stick. 3) Go to a recording studio that exclusively uses a PT HD system on a Mac Pro. 4) Run Reaper from the stick, and select Digidesign Core Audio Support as the output device. 5) Set block size to 128 and have a presentation on your mixdown. 6) Be cool when everybody is going through being stunned, laughing hysterically, going speechless, being afraid, getting depressed in disbelief, all at the same time. 7) Tell them how much Reaper costs, and go back to 6). Remember to spare time for showing them where to download Reaper, and show them how to enable a midi device. None of the plugins I had on the stick didn't work, although I did point Reaper to the folder with the VST's. Also, Reaper can read AU's only from the OS Library, which I didn't have access to. Bummer. But the faces... :D

Using a portable Reaper 3.75 works fine on OSX, and the VST-plugins can be transferred too. How about AU-plugins? Reaper doesn't seem to scan the app directory for AU's.

Reviving this thread because I am unable to get this to work. I have a FAT 32 formatted stick, I did exactly what was stated in the instructions above and yes, i can use REAPER from the stick BUT, I still have to have it installed on my computer. Once I uninstall Reaper from my computer and run it from the USB stick exclusively, all settings are lost. I also noticed that running reaper exclusively on the stick will not allow me to utilize custom themes/skins(I've uninstalled/reinstalled multiple times to no avail). I'm on a 2.3 G Core i5 with OS X 10.9.2. Any tips/suggestions???