Portable Cockos REAPER 7.40 (x64)
REAPER Portable is a powerful but sensible Windows application that lets you record, arrange, edit, and render multi-track waveform audio. It provides an extensive set of features, but is a very small and lightweight application. REAPER supports ASIO, Kernel Streaming, WaveOut, and DirectSound for playback and recording. It reads WAV, OGG, and MP3 files, and records WAV files. You can arrange any number of items in any number of tracks and use audio processing plug-ins (DirectX and Jesusonic). REAPER also supports volume, pan controls and envelopes per track, multi-layer undo/redo, and user creatable color themes.
Reaper is undoubtedly one of the most powerful and famous DAWs (Digital Audio Workstation) out there due to the numerous functions and operations it supports: synthesizing, composing, arranging tracks, editing and mixing, all wrapped in a neatly organized GUI.
All-in-one DAW
You can start a new project from scratch or you can insert your existing audio or MIDI files and enhance them with effects. The available plugins make it possible for you to add effects like reverb, delay and more, make pitch corrections, and perform a variety of other adjustments as well.
The record function comes in handy when you want to capture streams playing on your computer, whereas assigning colors to each track can help you get better visibility within the entire project.
Once you learned your way around Reaper and discovered all of its functions, you can go one step further and associate hotkeys to the actions you use the most, thus speeding up any process.
Packs an audio converter and renamer
In addition to the plethora of features already mentioned, Reaper also comes with an integrated batch converter for quickly encoding your selected tracks to WAV, AIFF, CAF, FLAC, CUE/BIN, MP3 or OGG.
You can also set up a wildcard-based pattern to ensure the generated tracks all share the same filename style, while also modifying the target sample rate, channels and resample modes to your liking. When it comes to metadata, you can either manually add new information, or you can preserve the original data when possible.
Basic features:
– Portable – supports running from USB keys or other removable media
– 64 bit audio engine
– Excellent low-latency performance
– Multiprocessor capable
– Direct multi-track recording to many formats including WAV/BWF/W64, AIFF, WavPack, FLAC, OGG, and MIDI.
– Extremely flexible routing
– Fast, tool-less editing
– Supports a wide range of hardware (nearly any audio interface, outboard hardware, many control surfaces)
– Support for VST, VSTi, DX, DXi effects
– ReaPlugs: high quality 64 bit effect suite
– Tightly coded – installer is just over 2MB
Editing features:
– Tool-less mouse interface — spend less time clicking
– Drag and drop files to instantly import them into a project
– Support for mixing any combination of file type/samplerate/bit depth on each track
– Easily split, move, and resize items
– Each item has easily manipulated fades and volume
– Tab to transient support
– Configurable and editable automatic crossfading of overlapping items
– Per-item pitch shift and time stretch
– Arbitrary item grouping
– Markers and envelopes can be moved in logical sync with editing operations
– Ripple editing – moving/deletion of items can optionally affect later items
– Multiple tempos and time signatures per project
– Ability to define and edit project via regions
– Automation envelopes
Reaper Portable Release Notes:
+ Actions: do not display extra message box when using new 'Save copy of project as (prompt with current name)' action + Audio Units: ensure MIDI events sent to plug-in are sorted + Big clock: support copying text to clipboard + Big clock: support double-clicking on region/marker color square to edit the region/marker + Click source: add setting to preserve click pitch when changing project playback rate [t=300144] + Click source: do not apply project or media item pitch shifting if click source setting to preserve pitch is enabled + Crossfade editor: add new graphical crossfade editor (thanks chmaha) + Crossfade editor: hold alt/opt key while editing crossfade intersection handle to keep left-right movement minimal + Crossfade editor: lower edge of fade start/end is mouse edit zone for crossfade width + Crossfade editor: mouse edit in combination lane is handled like an item move edit in arrange view (only one side of the crossfade moves) + Crossfade editor: support many context-specific actions and shortcut mappings (nudge, preview, align phase, etc) + Crossfade editor: add option (enabled by default) to color the entire item in the arrange view when using the crossfade editor + Crossfade editor: add theme images for navigation buttons + Crossfade editor: display signal correlation within crossfade area + Crossfade editor: support loading/saving snapshots + Crossfade editor: support locking left-hand item start time (edits are instead applied to the right-hand item in reverse) + Crossfades: allow changing either fade-in/out or crossfade shape via fade shape popup menu + Crossfades: respect preference to display crossfade handle when "offset overlapping items vertically" is enabled + Envelopes: fix envelope points possibly getting scrambled when editing point position via "set point value" dialog + Envelopes: support relative snap when moving envelope points, automation items + Joysticks: fix issues when re-enabling a joystick that was previously not found + Joysticks: update MIDI list when changing devices + Linux: add Joystick MIDI support + Localization: allow localizing MIDI note names + Localization: enhance per-control scaling to support x-position adjustment, width-shrinking, and y-growing of controls, via @id=scale,ysc=yscale,dx=moveamt + Localization: improve localization tweakability of media item properties window + Localization: support localizing ReaPlugs + Localization: fix development helper tooltip ID display for disabled controls on Windows + LV2: ensure MIDI events sent to plug-ins are sorted [t=300712] + macOS: fix inconsistencies with keyboard bindings after loading plug-ins that change locale (e.g. Kontakt7) + macOS: fix stale darkmode color of text controls in certain instances [t=300768] + Media explorer: when loading FXB/FXP, do not focus existing FX if already visible + Menu/toolbar customization window: fix flicker on Windows [t=300997] + Meters: fix mixer master gain reduction metering when master has a high channel count + MIDI: adjust item fixed-tempo setting when moving items across tracks to new timebases, auto-convert if possible + MIDI: improve behavior when importing, inserting, recording, gluing, or rendering MIDI on a track that has timebase set to time + MIDI: be a little more permissive when importing .mid files with oddly-formed MIDI track data, unterminated sysex messages + MIDI: change menu/action text to 'Time format: Measures.Beats.PPQ' from 'Time format: Measures.Beats.MIDI_ticks' + MIDI editor: omit view/editor state from undo points, reducing extra undo points in certain cases + MIDI editor: enabling 'snap relative to grid' disables absolute snapping for note-starts + MIDI editor: support relative snap for CC events + MIDI editor: improve behavior of actions to move cursor left/right by grid with 'snap to visible grid' enabled + Mouse modifiers: fix automation item double-click action binding + Mouse modifiers: exporting ReaScript to set modifiers supports updating correct toolbar in MIDI editor + Paste: fix MIDI PPQ snapping when pasting items in projects that have tempo changes + Peaks: fix dual-type peaks display when using item section/reverse (7.39 regression) + Peaks: fix peak edge drawing when using alpha < 1.0 + Peaks building: allow peaks of corrupted partial media to finish building (7.39 behavior change reverted) + Phase aligner: add new phase alignment action/dialog + Phase aligner: maximize phase correlation between media items and selected reference media items + Phase aligner: support batch processing, to phase-align multiple media items with multiple reference media items + Phase aligner: adjust grouped items when applying phase alignment + Project settings: fix save of default relative snap setting + Razor edits: add experimental option (reaper.ini areasel=2) to not merge adjacent selection regions + Razor edits: improve behavior with video items and automation lane razor edit edges + Razor edits: update toolbar when moving razor edit with ripple mouse modifier + ReaControlMIDI: improve macOS window sizing + ReaEQ: clean up UI layout, improve for localization + ReaNINJAM: add option to auto-assign remote channels/users to output channels + ReaNINJAM: add option to hide beat counter display + ReaNINJAM: allow configuration of remote output channels + ReaNINJAM: allow customizing bitrate for each local channel + ReaNINJAM: fix potential crash after first scan on macOS + ReaNINJAM: improve accessibility labels, remove various dividers from screenreader lists + ReaNINJAM: make plug-in i/o size configurable, allow configuration of output channels for metronome, local channels + ReaPlugs: allow mousewheel over most text fields to adjust value + ReaScript: add CrossfadeEditor_Show(), CrossfadeEditor_OnCommand() + ReaScript: document more RENDER_SETTINGS values + ReaScript: FX_GetNamedConfigParm() supports is_instrument + ReaScript: auto-cleanup reaper-extstate.ini if it contains many incorrectly-written lines + ReaScript: prevent writing invalid newline characters to reaper-extstate.ini via SetExtState() + ReaScript: update documentation for SetExtState() to reflect lack of support for newlines in persistent state + ReaSurroundPan: fix truncating utf-8 channel names + ReaVerb: fix issues with unicode filenames on Windows + Render window: add vertical scrollbar when used on very low resolution screens + RS5k: increase UI width + Ruler: fix potential hang in certain instances (7.19 regression) + Samplerate conversion: fix r8brain-free quality issues with playspeed changes and sub-128-sample blocksizes + Snapping: improve behavior of mouse-dependent start/end snapping (snaps to start unless in last 15% of item) + Theme: support maximum width for gain reduction meter in WALTER, as 4th coordinate of meter.vu.div + Wildcards: localize $localtime using REAPER localization rather than system locale + Wildcards: support $wildcard[<N] to limit the replacement text to N characters + Windows: remove ancient hardcoded ctrl+space playback binding (users should use global shortcuts instead)