Portable Cockos REAPER 7.41 (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: add actions to move cursor by grid division, which preserve non-snapped grid if snapping is not enabled + Actions: fix actions to show/hide all envelopes in certain situations [t=301489] + Actions window: prevent adding action from incorrect section to custom menu/toolbar in certain instances [t=301286] + Actions window: prevent closing window when double-clicking item that is not runnable + Auto trim/split silence: respect dialog fade-in/fade-out setting regardless of project default fade settings [t=299675] + Click source: fix initial focus of modeless source properties window + Crossfade editor: add actions to load default crossfade, crossfade presets + Crossfade editor: add actions to nudge left or right item volume +/- 1 dB or 0.1 dB + Crossfade editor: add actions to set preview time to 50/100/500 ms + Crossfade editor: add actions to zoom in/out + Crossfade editor: add action to toggle ripple editing on/off + Crossfade editor: add action to toggle setting to lock left-hand item start position + Crossfade editor: add option for edits to affect all selected items regardless of timeline position, enabled by default + Crossfade editor: add option to link pre-roll/post-roll when mouse editing + Crossfade editor: after running action to set pre-roll or post-roll to mouse, restart playback only if the pre-roll changed + Crossfade editor: clamp edits to adjacent fade edges [p=2873557] + Crossfade editor: display the number of affected crossfades in the title bar + Crossfade editor: fix wonky display update when editing while playing back + Crossfade editor: improve auto-crossfade behavior when edits affect items that are not processed by the crossfade editor + Crossfade editor: mute left/right also affects grouped items + Crossfade editor: update checkboxes when reopening editor and solo/mute are enabled + Crossfade editor: update numerical pre-roll/post-roll display after running actions that change pre-roll/post-roll + JSFX/Video Processors: get_host_placement() returns track index/fx address and sets 8 bit in flag when called from FX in container + macOS: fix ReaImGui issue with transparency [p=2875068] + Media explorer: fix vertical-mode divider sizing issues [t=296197] + Menu/toolbar customization: reduce flicker on Windows + MIDI: avoid writing real-time MIDI messages when exporting to file + MIDI: fix midi peaks inaccuracies when looped items intersect tempo changes (7.39 regression) + MIDI: fix swing grid navigation on 1/2 grid size [p=2873161] + MIDI: handle importing file MIDI with incorrectly-included SPP messages + MIDI editor: better behavior when using linked project grid and swing mode changes [p=2871994] + MIDI editor: fix actions to navigate left/right by grid when snapping is disabled (7.40 regression) + MIDI editor: preserve swing setting after glue + MIDI editor: improve undo log message after note splitting + MIDI editor: use project setting for relative snap + Mouse modifiers: fix incorrect capture handling when clicking to insert take marker + Mouse modifiers: preserve fade start/end time when engaging mouse modifier to adjust edge without changing fade time + Nudge: fix nudging automation items by musical amounts [t=297915] + Pin mapper: fix incorrect initial size when using DPI scaling on Windows/Linux + Razor edits: fix handling of crossfades when stretching regions [t=301300] + Razor edits: fix stretch edits affecting other items when preference set to add warp markers + ReaEQ/ReaXcomp: support mousewheel over text fields, like other ReaPlugs + ReaScript: fix instances where GetSetProjectGrid() would not set measure-grid (mode=3) + Render: add setting to enable/disable all dither and noise shaping + Render: allow editing render metadata even if embedding metadata is not enabled + Render: fix skipped samples at start of render with certain combinations of render settings and resample modes (7.37 regression) + Render: improve various behaviors and interaction with completed render dialog when project play rate is not 1.0 [t=301133] + Render: prevent possible crash when adding rendered files to project after the source track or media item has been removed + Render: restore option to normalize to master mix + Render: see render postprocessing help for explanation of differences between 'normalize as if files play together' and 'normalize to master mix' + Render: support 'entire project' as a region in region render matrix, to enable rendering specific tracks as mono/stereo/multichannel + Render: support delaying render start for normal renders, not just queued renders + Render: support limiting to master mix, as distinct from limiting as if files play together + RPP: support LOAD_PRESET_FROM_FILE in <FX following <VST, to allow programmatic loading VST/VST3 fxp/fxb/vstpreset file + RS5k: fix undesired mode-switch when editing note start/end values + Ruler: fix quirks around double-clicking ruler, edit cursor moving + Tempo envelope: preserve beat basis when copy/pasting envelope points + Transport: fix inconsistent behavior when closing edit field via escape key + Undo: improve loop points/time selection undo messages + Windows: allow OSARA to re-enable old ctrl+space playback binding via .ini file + Windows: fix fade menu display issue on Windows XP/Vista/7 with classic system theme set