Portable Cockos REAPER 6.0
REAPER 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.
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
Whats New:
+ Defaults: enable Live FX multiprocessing by default
+ Defaults: enable track record monitoring on new tracks by default
+ Defaults: set volume envelopes to fader scaling by default
+ Dynamic split: add preset support
+ Dynamic split: overhaul and improvements to algorithm and gate handling
+ Dynamic split: retain settings after canceling the window
+ FX: allow embedding some plug-in UIs into track and mixer control panels
+ FX: support embedding UIs for ReaEQ, ReaXComp, ReaComp, ReaSurround, and graphical JSFX
+ FX: add preference to display FX list on right side of FX chain window
+ FX: add preference to display add/delete buttons above list in FX chain window
+ Import: handle WAV and AIFF (Apple Loops) files containing transient information similarly to REX files
+ MIDI editor: display and edit CC/velocity as dots and lines, CCs as linear and curved envelopes, similar to track envelopes
+ MIDI editor: add note-type buttons to default toolbar
+ MIDI editor: add option to display note length in velocity lane
+ MIDI editor: add option to move bank/program change events with notes
+ MIDI editor: add preference to automatically reduce CC events when drawing
+ MIDI editor: combine note properties and event properties into one modeless dialog
+ MIDI editor: add mouse modifiers to reset CC/velocity to default values
+ MIDI editor: make default CC event and CC lane mouse modifiers more like default envelope behaviors
+ MIDI editor: repopulate raw MIDI data display window when switching active media item
+ Main window: support positioning track control panels on right side of arrange
+ Media import: properly adjust length of imported media with embedded tempo when crossing project tempo changes
+ Media import: support adjusting media based on tempo suggested by filename
+ Media items: add new “Beats (auto-stretch at tempo changes)” timebase
+ Media items: add action to add stretch markers at project tempo changes
+ Media items: add action to recalculate automatic stretch markers at project tempo changes
+ Media items: add action to convert embedded source media transient information to transient guides
+ Media items: optionally create transient guides on import for media with embedded transient information
+ Media items: support calculating playback rate from user-supplied tempo or length in beats
+ Media items: when copy/pasting items with stretch markers, preserve the original play rate
+ Menus: very lightly refresh main file/edit/view/insert menus
+ Modal windows: remember window positions (configurable option in preferences/general/advanced to tweak behavior)
+ Mouse modifiers: add double-click behaviors to reset CC value, curvature, edit properties
+ Mouse modifiers: add preference to draw/edit CC events immediately on mouse click
+ Multiprocessing: auto-detect up to 128 threads
+ Multiprocessing: increase anticipative FX hard limit to 128 threads, live FX hard limit to 64 threads
+ Multiprocessing: remove old 4.x scheduler mode, non-event synchronization modes
+ Notation editor: support customized staff and note context menus
+ Performance: improve performance and reduce system resource consumption with large track counts
+ Performance: add option in disk settings to periodically close excess open files
+ Performance: add option to read peaks files under a certain size completely to RAM (to reduce open file count)
+ REX: add option to ignore all embedded slice and tempo information
+ ReaFIR: add context menu mode configuration
+ ReaScript: add MIDI_GetCCShape, MIDI_SetCCShape
+ ReaScript: add support for CC shapes to MIDI_Get(Set)AllEvts
+ ReaScript: add support for setting track playback offset value and attributes
+ ReaScript: add support for user-defined note and track notation data that is not displayed
+ ReaScript: fix setting MIDI meta-messages via API
+ ReaScript: add reduce_open_files() utility function for users running up against open file handle limitations
+ Render: include all options in “options and format” render presets
+ Render: optionally embed transient information into WAV or AIFF files
+ Render: support embedding tempo into AIFF files
+ Render: support rendering only selected regions in an existing region render matrix [t=193405]
+ Render: when enabled, embed exact tempo of rendered item/time
+ Resampling: added SSE2-optimized sinc calculation (from Theo Niessink)
+ Resampling: optimize and greatly improve quality of resampling for conversion between common rates
+ Routing: add track wiring view
+ Theming: new Default 6.0 theme with theme adjuster script allowing for extensive customization of the new default theme
+ Theming: layout DPI translation for HiDPI/Retina displays
+ Theming: apply main window size area theme element only on mouseover
+ Theming: improve theme rendering appearance when using custom UI scaling
+ Theming: apply advanced preference UI scaling changes immediately
+ Theming: replace tcp.dragdropchild with tcp.dragdropinfo [indent_sibling_track indent_child_track]
+ Theming: add additional 8 WALTER font slots
+ Theming: add support for midi_score_colormap, in addition to midi_note_colormap
+ Toolbars: actions to switch last focused toolbar will default to switching main toolbar
+ Toolbars: improve HiDPI/Retina support (toolbar_icons/ can have 150/ and 200/ subdirs)
+ Tracks: support positive or negative playback time offset without affecting PDC
+ Tracks: add action to bypass track playback offset
+ Tracks: add user preference for max MIDI playback speed to catch up to negative track playback offset
+ VST3: support plugins that export MIDI note names
+ Windows: HiDPI awareness and display improvements (auto-rescale more UI when running HiDPI aware)
+ Windows: improve appearance of docker, ReaPlugs, and other windows when resizing