REAPER provides a flexible but easy to use interface that is equally suited to amateurs and professionals alike. It requires no dongle, has no copy protection, and can be evaluated with full functionality.
Features of REAPER 2.44 :
- Portable - supports running from USB keys or other removable media
- 64 bit audio engine
- Excellent low-latency performance
- Stunning multiprocessor performance
- Direct multi-track recording to many formats including WAV/BWF/W64, AIFF, WavPack, FLAC, OGG, and MIDI.
- Extremely flexible routing
- 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 3MB
• 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
- See the full list of features
here.
Changes in REAPER 2.44 :
- MIDI editor: fixed markers/regions/time selection drawing when time signature changes
- Key bindings: cleaner binding saving code
- ReaFIR: bugfix when switching from precise to points mode
- Everything good from 2.43:
- New actions: split item at media cues, shrink to first or last cue (or both)
- New actions: mute/unmute, solo/unsolo (in addition to existing toggle) selected tracks
- New meta-actions: wait 0.1, 0.5, 1.0 seconds before next action
- Fixed bug in importing embedded loops when one end of the loop is hidden
- MIDI editor: display project markers and regions
- MIDI editor: actions to shorten or lengthen selected notes by one pixel or one grid unit
- MIDI editor: updates timeline when moving item
- MIDI editor show play cursor regardless of full item visibility in project
- Better shortcut matching (avoid load-time collisions between num+ and +, etc)
- Item playrates are now clamped to 0.01x/100.0x
- Added tcp_main_namebg and mcp_main_namebg theme elements
- Fixed mousewheel in docked midi editors
- ReaFIR: smoother interpolation for EQ curve
- ReaNinjam: added "Send" button to chat window for WINE users
- JS: new smaller JS DLL (compiled with MSVC, internal cleanups)
- JS: no more memcpy() page granularity issues
- VSTi: potential fix for faulty plug-ins that do not handle all-note-offs very sensibly
- Better transport sizing when using large system fonts
