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 3.14 :
- Action: show/hide all floating windows
- API: added functions for sending commands to the active MIDI editor window
- API: added register("command_id_lookup") to find extension actions
- API: added functions to retrieve track/take envelopes
- API: added MIDI_eventlist_Create, MIDI_eventlist_Destroy
- API: added GetSetTrackState, GetSetItemState, GetSetEnvelopeState
- API: fixed extension shortcut problem
- Automation: fixed action to set envelope lane fader from MIDI controller
- Automation: more consistent behavior for new envelopes picking up the fader value in non-trim mode
- Auto-crossfades: fix for some crossfades not being reset when moving multiple items across tracks
- Batch converter: new facility to convert media in bulk, optionally applying FX
- Custom menus: main MIDI menus can be customized, other improvements
- Custom menus: import/export/reset individual menus along with entire sets
- Custom toolbar: support adding extension actions to toolbar
- DX: fix for synths dropping the first MIDI note
- Live performance: FX multiprocessing optimization
- Media item resampling/pitch shift modes: not switched when switching projects
- MIDI editor: Fixed adding text/sysex events not extending source length when past end
- Peaks: fixed recording peaks interpolation accuracy and corner-case crash when recording
- Prefs/Media/MIDI: Improved behavior when all-notes-off when un-record-arming a track disabled
- Project/template file save: better detection and handling of failed disk writes
- ReaSamplomatic5000: Configurable per-instance resample mode
- Render queue: resizeable
- Track height: default for new projects can be set via File/Proj Settings/Save as default or Prefs/Projects/Default
- Track renaming: better support for tabbing through tracks when envelope panels visible
- Video: improved scrubbing support
- Video: handling of multiple items improved (later items, higher track numbers prioritized)
- Windows: Fixed font used in some dialogs for ClearType (OGG rendering, etc)
