Reaper is a complex audio program, offering all the tools you need in order to record, edit, process and mix your favorite tracks. It supports a wide range of formats and plugins and can be extended, scripted and modified.
The program has three major functions: record, produce and transform. With the record function, you can record audio and MIDI at any sample rate or bit depth. Also, it has various speeds for recording and playback with multiple takes or layers. Producing allows you to freely mix audio, MIDI, and video on any track. Moreover, you can copy and move regions to alternate arrangements while having up to 64 individually routable channels. Going further, the transform function has the option to install any third-party audio or MIDI plugin(VST, VST3, DX/DXI) and allows FX enabling in real time.
Reaper is extremely customizable. You can change colors, icons, toolbars, layouts, almost anything. Thousands of actions, alone or in sequence, can be triggered by a keystroke, toolbar button, or external controller. It's also extensible, the user is offered the possibility to develop extension in Lua, EEL, or Python.
The 5.62 version comes with major improvements. The most notable is the accessibility support, the correct grouping of items after moving within time selection and the option to add FX to master track.
To sum it up, Reaper is a complete tool for audio editing offering all the means for professional and intuitive DJing, combining top mixing and performance features.
v6.03 [Dec 4, 2019]
MIDI editor:
- do not reset velocity for new notes when editing in velocity lane, only when editing velocity on note directly or using reset mouse modifier.
- optimize CC lane drawing performance.
- fix default CC shape not persisting when reopening REAPER.
- fix first inserted CC event ignoring default curve shape in some situations.
- fix option to show note names on notes not persisting when reopening REAPER.
- fix right-click and double-click behavior in inline MIDI editor.
- fix inline editor CC lane display when also showing media item lane in normal MIDI editor.
- only draw filled CC envelope for the active channel in the active media item.
- prevent flicker when scrolling editor in synced view mode.
- refresh open editors after changing default MIDI note colormap.
- remove support for per-media-item note colormaps.
- support marquee selection even if modifier key is released before mouse.
- sync timebase to arrange view without re-centering.
- improve text display of project markers/regions.
- when modifying CC lanes, update any inline editors.
Retina/HiDPI:
- add hidpi images for generic UI sliders, track send sliders.
- improve marker/region display.
- improve transport buttons in media explorer/MIDI editor/etc.
- improve MIDI editor track list display.
- improve diamond/triangle note appearance in MIDI editor.
- improve inline MIDI editor display.
Theme:
- Theme Adjuster supports ctrl Z for und.
- add new mono button image.
- add 5.0 toolbar images to 5.0 theme.
- add additional hidpi/retina images.
FX:
- switch active plug-in before showing context menu when right clicking in FX chain.
- improve automated parameter behavior when moving items with FX automation across tracks.
ReaScript:
- add MARKER_GUID:X to get the unique identifier of a project marker or region.
- remove support for deprecated/unused MIDI support file types.
Toolbars:
- improve close button/topmost pin positioning when floating.
- improve appearance/brightness of built-in buttons.
- allow resizing toolbar when frameless and very small.
VST:
- add support for VST3 plugins that output MIDI CC data, via LegacyMIDICCOutEvent.
- replace input audio rather than summing for VST3 instruments that have sidechain input but no main input.
- add Windows HiDPI compatibility setting that affects floating plug-in UIs.
Windows:
- fix topmost pin bugs, auto-lower pinned windows while modal window is present.
- option to ignore alt-key presses affects FX chains, FX browser, Video, Media Explorer windows.
- improve Windows IAccessible support for STATE_SYSTEM_FOCUSED.
ARA:
- add per-plugin menu item to force reanalysis of media (for example, after using external editor).
macOS:
- add experimental option to support dark mode on 10.14 (in preferences/general/advanced).
Media items:
- optimize display of text notes in media items.
Mixer:
- fix incorrect track number being displayed in certain instances.
ReaSamplomatic5k:
- improve voice-reuse logic in certain voice-starved situations (old mode used on existing projects, additional hidden VST parameter).
Tempo map:
- further improve behavior of actions to insert measure from loop selection.
Tooltips:
- prevent stale tooltips from persisting when switching active windows.
Tracks:
- disable playback offset by default (disabled is equivalent to enabled with zero offset).
Und:
- improve FX parameter behavior when undoing the addition of envelopes/parameter modulation/LFO.
Web interface:
- avoid UI hangs when unable to resolve rc.reaper.fm.
