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 3.1 :
- 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 3.141 :
- Action: toggle selected tracks between touch and trim/read modes (for non-motorized control surfaces)
- Anticipative FX is no longer by default disabled during rendering
- Batch converter: added right-click context menu, modeless configuration
- Custom menu: fixed Actions menu occasionally declining to be customized
- Fixed mislabeled undo/redo menu items in certain instances
- Image loading: theme images optimized for faster load (startup) time, and smaller installer
- Installer: reduced installer size on all platforms
- Media explorer: fixed import of multitrack MIDI files when importing to empty project
- MIDI editor: fixed bug when extending a looped item leftwards in the editor
- MIDI editor: avoid skipping over CC data when drawing edits quickly
- MIDI editor: actions to explicitly mute and unmute notes (in addition to existing toggle)
- MIDI editor: middle button hand-scroll
- Peaks: fixed rebuilding peaks for selected items
- Project markers: fixed transport jump-to-marker list not being refreshed
- Preferences: added new Envelopes tab, option for how to handle volume/pan trim when adding envelopes
- ReWire: per-instance options to control whether slaves can change tempo, loop region
- Scrollbars: drawing fixes
- Toolbar: merged toolbar and menu customize interfaces, no limit on custom toolbar buttons
- Toolbar: customizable tabbed floating toolbar (separate from main toolbar)
- Toolbar: added 72 more custom toolbar images
- Toolbar: optional user text over blank toolbar icon
- Toolbar: armed actions can be run by clicking anywhere in the arrange view (not just on a media item)
- Video: added support for video files that contain no video track
- Video: dont show video from stopped background projects
- Video: fixed possible hang on Windows multi-monitor setups
- Video: fixed incorrect frame display issues (rounding errors after manually moving the edit cursor)
- Video: added a preference panel to select video colorspaces
- x64: fixed bugs in recording and rendering format selection/configuration windows
