Cockos releases REAPER 4 (4.0.2)

Cockos has updated REAPER to version 4.02.

REAPER 4.02 improves on 4.0's mouse modifier support, adding more scrub/jog customization and marquee zoom support. REAPER now has a stack of zoom/scroll states, so you can easily cycle through recent views. The project settings dialog has also been reorganized slightly, offering a cleaner arrangement of project specific configuration. This version also offers the usual assortment of small behavior and stability fixes - see below.

Changes:

• Mouse modifiers:

  • Support draw/edit/ramp CC events when starting the edit over a CC event.

  • Added contexts for arrange view middle-click, middle-drag, edit cursor handle.

  • Many new options for marquee zoom, restore zoom, browser scroll, scrub/jog behaviors.

  • Better preservation of pre-existing user customizations.

  • Behaviors to move item edge without changing fade-in end or fade-out start time.

  • Better behavior when assigning mouse click to actions like "move item to cursor".

  • Control+right-click creates a time selection by default (as in 3.x).

• MIDI editor:

  • Fixed bad behavior when drawing over existing CC events with snap enabled.

  • Fixed horizontal zoom with mouse cursor center, when using project-synced timebase.

  • Avoid accidental time selections in ruler.

  • Support negative swing quantize.

  • Fixed possible oddness when editing CC with auto-select CC enabled.

• Project bay:

  • Use file resolving when loading retained items.

  • Show error message when move/copy file fails because the target file already exists.

  • List tracks by name.

  • Fixed drag/render-drag of multiple items on OSX.

• Envelopes:

  • Allow editing initial envelope point regardless of editing preferences.

  • Option to add transition point when recording automation while playback is stopped.

  • Clicking on an envelope point no longer seeks playback.

• MIDI:

  • Fixed stuck notes when looping.

  • Renaming one pooled take renames all pooled takes.

• Project settings:

  • Reorganization, more sensible layout hopefully.

  • Added track mixing bit depth configuration.

• Count-in: follow tempo and time signature at play start position, not prior to it.

• Directory cleanup: ignore files that are retained in project bays.

• Media explorer: added action to close media explorer.

• Nudge: actions to nudge item contents apply only to the active take (similar to slip editing).

• ReaSurround: continue to increase FX IO count when dragging IO from tracks.

• Render queue: fixed display of time-selection renders.

• Samplitude EDL: support for offsets/lengths greater than 2 billion samples.

• Scrub: avoid senseless jogs after edit cursor moves.

• Slip editing: fix for possible hang.

• Stem rendering: faster, does not process irrelevant tracks, option in prefs/rendering for old behavior.

• Volume displays: fixed display of certain gain values in default theme.

• VST: fixed preset selection when there are multiple factory presets with the same name.

• Windows Aero: keep always on top pins out of window list when REAPER non-responsive.

• Zoom: fixed display of item backgrounds with very zoomed in and long project times.

• Zoom/scroll: now has a stack of recent zoom/scrolls, added actions to restore previous/next.

REAPER (Rapid Environment for Audio Prototyping and Efficient Recording) is designed for the recording, arrangement, editing, mixing and rendering of audio.

Basic features:

• Support for an unlimited number of audio tracks.

• Audio tracks are all fully routable (multiple inputs, outputs).

• Volume, pan controls and envelopes per track.

• Supports audio processing plug-ins (DirectX, DXi, VST, VSTi, and Jesusonic) with automation, easy chain manipulation and editing.

• Pitch shifting and time stretching.

• Fast, reasonable and usable Windows-style UI, working well on both low and high resolutions or multiple monitors.

• ASIO, Kernel Streaming, WaveOut, and DirectSound support for playback and recording.

• Reads WAV, OGG, MP3 and MIDI files, records WAV and MIDI files.

• Can render to WAV, OGG, MP3 if lame is installed.

• Full SMP support (can utilize 2 or more processors).

• Multi-layer undo/redo support.

• User creatable color themes.

Advanced features:

• Unlimited send/receives per track, with configurable parameters (pre-fx, post-fx, volume/pan adjustment/envelopes, mix to mono, phase, etc.).

• Any track can act as a bus, for routing flexibility.

• Tracks can have one or more (mono or stereo) hardware sends, for analog mixing capability.

• Fully routable/FX-able folder tracks that can contain group tracks.

• Item grouping.

• Ripple editing.

• Grid/snap support with configurable options.

• Markers.

• Unlimited takes per media item.

• Auto punch-in/punch-out functionality.

• Automatic record monitoring modes.

• Selection length granularity options as well as grid snapping.

• Tempo envelope (for grid lines/snapping/ruler), play-speed envelope.

• Project consolidation/export options (for rendering all or parts of any number of tracks to WAV, etc.).

• A UI and architecture that allows you to easily cut loops of many tracks simultaneously, without having to write them to disk.

• Support for plug-in generated media (such as click tracks, etc.).

• Project tempo envelopes for variable tempos in track, grid/snapping that supports variable tempos.

• 64-bit floating point sample pipeline for high quality.

• Advanced recording and monitoring options; examples:

  • You can route multiple tracks (inputs and/or media items) into a bus, and record THAT mixed down version.

  • You can record the input signal, or record the post-FX, post-track-render signal.

  • You can switch recording sources on the fly, even while recording.

  • You can arm/disarm tracks' inputs while playing or recording.

Other features:

• Human readable, human editable, backwards and forwards compatible project file format.

• Options to build peaks for recorded files on the fly.

• Lots of control for the user to specify where recorded files go, etc., when dealing with many projects.

• Template support to make it easy to load a project template and save it as a new project when you begin.

• Input/output channel name aliasing (why view your inputs as "MOTU 896: Analog 1" when you could have them be "Vocal Mic", etc.).

• Options for automatically backing up project files to alternate paths, time-stamped versions, etc.