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.
v6.3 [Jun 25, 2020]
Action list.
- Optionally match synonyms of common words when searching for action names ("display" matches "show", etc).
- Pull list of synonyms from langpack actionlist_synonyms section.
Track VU.
- Add metering settings submenu to track context menu as well as track VU context menu.
- Support metering RMS, RMS stereo, LUFS-M, LUFS-S.
Tracks.
- Support mono master/parent send, via single-channel entries in parent channels dropdown in track routing dialog.
Render.
- Display up to 512 vu meters, limited to the screen height.
- Iterate for increased precision when normalizing to LUFS-I.
- Master and track meters display levels after sample rate conversion, if any.
- More informative error message if target file cannot be created.
- Optimize loudness calculations.
- Separate render statistics header for clearer display when rendering many files.
- Support dithering primary and secondary render format to different bit depths.
- Support enabling LUFS-I/LUFS-M and LRA/LUFS-S statistics separately.
Automation.
- Obey grid/snap settings when using freehand draw.
- Restore 6.33 behavior when adding a single point via freehand draw.
FX.
- Add pin mapping dialog actions to clear or reset mappings.
- Correct floating window titles in various cases.
Linux.
- Fix issues with non-US numeric locales and plug-ins that reset locale.
- Improve save-as window default extension handling.
- Show multi-instance options in preferences.
Media items.
- Support entering numeric values for take volume/pan in properties window.
- Reset snap offset if right edge resized less than offset.
Metadata.
- Fix embedding CART intro/segue markers that occur at the very start of the rendered file.
- Support embedding project markers/cues as XMP when rendering (for Premiere, After Effects, etc).
- Fix invalid memory access from unknown ETCO type in ID3v2 parsing.
Project bay.
- Fix dragging automation items into project.
- Fix memory leak when running action to restore source media.
- Increase project length if needed when dragging media items from project bay.
Razor edits.
- Fix editing envelope point that occurs at the start of an automation item.
- Support stretch markers in media items that contain empty take lanes, if there is at least one audio take.
Reacomp.
- Fix legacy parameter reset when using factory default preset.
- Hide deprecated parameters if they are not being used (accessible via compatability parameter in generic UI).
Reascript.
- Add getsetmediatrackinfo support for getting/setting track VU mode.
- Add PCM_Source_buildpeaks to allow scripts to build peaks for PCM_sources.
- Prevent crash from incorrect use of PCM_Source_Destroy().
Reasurroundpan.
- Label an elevated speaker in the center of the room as "overhead", other elevated speakers as "height".
- When LFE channel is selected, allow changing input faders to gain, but disable the channel text edit box.
Actions.
- Use correct tempo when running action to insert tempo marker without opening tempo marker editor, and time signature is not x/4.
General.
- Fix logical sorting issues in region manager and elsewhere.
JSFX.
- Support linked stereo channels in channel mapper user mix mode.
Language packs.
- Improve behavior with dialog scaling and existing langpacks in render window.
Marquee zoom.
- Allow tracks to be sized smaller in order to fit on screen.
Master VU.
- Fix LUFS-S meter text readout when set to display current level rather than max or LRA.
MIDI.
- Encode gradual tempo changes on export as MIDI text messages that REAPER can interpret when reimporting (other applications will ignore these messages and import stepwise tempo changes).
Performance.
- Fix potential excessive UI CPU use/hang when closing project when edit cursor is offscreen.
Reasurround / reasurroundpan.
- Allow plugin to support higher I/O channel count than the track or media item.
Ripple editing.
- Improve behavior of actions to duplicate items within razor edit or time selection.
RS5k.
- Improve default value for minimum velocity.
Tempo markers.
- Support tempo basis other than 1/4 note (affects displayed BPM number only, not metronome or tempo envelope display).
Theme.
- Add meter_strip_h_rms image, consistently use loudness meter theme elements for tracks that are set to meter loudness.
VST3.
- Fix incorrect handling of icontextmenuitem flags.
Windows.
- Avoid potential splash screen hang when caught in an invalidate/postmessage loop.
