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Reaper MCP Server: Lightning Speed & Ironclad Control

Reaper MCP Server: Where every operation mirrors dominance. Unleash lightning-fast performance, bulletproof redundancy, and ironclad control. Your mission, perfected.

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About Reaper MCP Server

What is Reaper MCP Server: Lightning Speed & Ironclad Control?

Reaper MCP Server serves as a specialized middleware solution designed to bridge REAPER DAW projects with Model Context Protocol (MCP) clients like Claude Desktop. Leveraging cutting-edge tooling, this server enables AI-driven analysis of audio工程项目 with unparalleled efficiency and precision. By abstracting complex project structures into structured data formats, it empowers users to query project details through natural language interfaces while maintaining strict control over data parsing parameters.

How to Use Reaper MCP Server: Lightning Speed & Ironclad Control?

Implementation follows a three-phase workflow. First, configure Claude Desktop by specifying UV installation paths and project directories via the provided template configuration. Second, validate tool availability through the application's interface tools panel where both find_reaper_projects and parse_reaper_project should appear. Third, initiate queries by referencing specific project names while leveraging expanded tool views to audit parsed data streams. Continuous interaction reveals granular metadata ranging from track hierarchies to plugin configurations.

Reaper MCP Server Features

Key Features of Reaper MCP Server: Lightning Speed & Ironclad Control?

This architecture distinguishes itself through three core innovations: automated project discovery via recursive directory scanning, high-fidelity parsing converting RPP files into standardized JSON payloads, and real-time contextualization enabling AI-driven analysis. The dual-tool system ensures deterministic workflows where project location discovery precedes content interrogation, maintaining strict data integrity throughout the pipeline. Advanced users can audit parsing parameters in reaper_dataclasses.py for customized metadata extraction.

Use Cases of Reaper MCP Server: Lightning Speed & Ironclad Control?

Production engineers benefit from rapid project audits by querying track counts or plugin usage statistics across multiple sessions. Post-production teams gain automated metadata extraction for version tracking, while educators can demonstrate project structures through AI-mediated explanations. Notably, the server excels in large-scale workflows where analyzing hundreds of projects becomes feasible through programmatic queries, eliminating manual file inspection. Creative technologists use the parsed data to power custom DSP workflows or generate technical documentation automatically.

Reaper MCP Server FAQ

FAQ from Reaper MCP Server: Lightning Speed & Ironclad Control?

  • Why use this over native REAPER tools? The MCP integration provides AI-driven analysis capabilities unavailable in standard workflows, enabling pattern recognition and cross-project comparisons.
  • How to resolve missing tools? Verify configuration paths using file.exists() checks and ensure server processes maintain file system permissions.
  • Can this handle encrypted projects? AES-256 encrypted files require prior decryption before parsing, as the server operates on plaintext RPP structures.
  • What performance optimizations exist? Caching mechanisms in parse_reaper_project reduce redundant processing by tracking file modification timestamps.
  • Does it support multi-user environments? Current implementation prioritizes single-user workflows, though API endpoints can be extended for distributed setups.

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Reaper MCP Server

This is a simple MCP server that connects a Reaper project to an MCP client like Claude Desktop and enables you to ask questions about the project.

Tools

  • find_reaper_projects: Finds all Reaper projects in the directory you specified in the config.
  • parse_reaper_project: Parses a Reaper project and returns a JSON object.

These tools work in tandem. When you ask Claude a question about a specific Reaper project, it will use the find_reaper_projects tool to find the project, then use the parse_reaper_project tool to parse the project and answer your question. To see all data that is parsed from the project, check out the src/domains/reaper_dataclasses.py file.

Setup

  1. Configure Claude Desktop
* Follow [the instructions to configure Claude Desktop](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/quickstart/server#core-mcp-concepts) for use with a custom MCP server
* Find the sample config in `setup/claude_desktop_config.json`
* Update the following paths in the config: 
  * Your `uv` installation path
  * Your Reaper project directory
  * This server's directory
  1. Launch and Configure
* Open Claude Desktop
* Look for the hammer icon in the bottom right of your chat box
* Click the hammer icon to verify you see two Reaper tools available: 
  * `find_reaper_projects`
  * `parse_reaper_project` ![Claude Desktop Tools](./docs/claude-desktop-tools.png)
  1. Start Using
* Ask questions about your Reaper project
* Always include the name of the specific Reaper project you're asking about
* You can expand the tool boxes to see the raw project data being passed to Claude ![Claude Desktop Tools](./docs/example-question.png)

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