REAPER 2.5

REAPER is a powerful but sensible Windows program that lets you record, edit, render and arrange multi-track waveform audio.
REAPER is a powerful but sensible Windows application designed for the recording, arrangement, editing, mixing and rendering of audio. REAPER provides a flexible but easy to use interface that is equally suited to amateurs and professionals alike.
REAPER versions 0.4-0.99 are freeware, but starting with version 1.0 the license will change to very reasonably priced (with amateur and professional rates/support) uncrippled nag-free shareware, supporting unexpiring full functionality in unregistered form.
Main features:
- Easy to use
Equally usable by hobby users and professionals alike. Simply drag and drop one of many kinds of files in to edit existing material, or insert a track and arm it for recording. No complex project settings or definitions are required.
- Extremely small footprint
REAPER is full featured, but its installer is barely over 1 megabyte. It starts and closes fast, and is easily installed on new systems or on portable drives.
- Fast and powerful editing facilities
Split, resize, fade/crossfade, pitch shift, timestretch, copy/paste and loop media items with ease. Ripple editing is available, too.
- Unrivaled routing capabilities
Send tracks to any number of other tracks or hardware outputs, with lots of options (pre-fx, post-fx, independent faders, mono or stereo). Not interested in advanced routing? You dont have to use it (and it certainly wont get in the way.)
- Powerful recording options
Supports pre-fx, post-fx recording, can record mixed output of multiple tracks, etc, supports switching record inputs/modes on the fly, input monitoring options (including tape-style auto input monitoring mode), supports auto-punch-in/punch-out, and more. If you want. Otherwise, it just behaves as you would expect.
- Wide open compatibility
Sane, human readable, human editable project file format. Support for reading and writing many common file formats. Support for consolidating track edits and rendering track stems, to enable easy export for other applications. EDL import/export for Samplitude and Vegas.
- MIDI support
Support for MIDI files, recording MIDI, and VSTi/DXi softsynths. MIDI can be integrated and mixed with audio.
- Customizeable user interface
User arrangeable user interface with color themes: make REAPER look how you want it to look, and arrange (or hide) elements of the user interface to suit your needs.
- Bundled Effects and 3rd party plug-in Support
Includes built in effects including a compressor, gate, FFT EQ, and some basic synthesizers, and includes many Jesusonic effects, and supports many plug-ins (including VST and DX plug-ins) with full plug-in delay compensation.
System requirements:
- Minimum system: 500mhz processor, 10MB free disk space, 800x600 in 256 colors or higher, Windows compatible sound hardware
- Recommended system: Multiple processors, >1GB free disk space, 1280x1024 in 16.7M colors, ASIO sound drivers
Version restrictions:
- 30 days trial

Enhancements:
- BIG STUFF
- Uber track control group support (shift+G defaults to show group settings, Ctrl+Alt+G shows new Track Grouping Matrix)
- REX2 file support, imported slices keep beat location if project tempo changes (todo support moving items across tempo changes, currently slices must be re-imported)
- Dynamic Split interactive beat slicing and quantization
- NEW GOODIES
- Action: detect tempo, create measure from time selection (new or current time signature, one bar or many)
- Action: extend or swap selection to next transient in selected items
- Action: move items left/right by grid
- Action: set/adjust arrange view grid size
- Action: move cursor to next/prior zero crossing (Z, shift+Z by default)
- Action: split item at prior zero crossing (alt+Z by default)
- Action: move cursor to nearest transient in selected items
- Action: adjust item rate while clearing preserve pitch
- Action: set/clear item "preserve pitch" setting
- Action: select all tracks in groups 1..32
- Action: create chromatic MIDI notes from selected items
- Shift+3/4,5/6 now map to item rate changes (10-cent, semitone), clearing preserve pitch
- JS: utility/volume_pan with parameter smoothing (for use with param modulation)
- JS: utility/phase_adjust now handles stereo (phase rotates each channel, not the stereo image)
- JS: delay_sustain effect
- JS: vca_master and vca_slave for emulating VCA-style control using audio routing
- JS: spectropaint effect (woohoo spectral painting for fun!), fixes to gfxanalyzer and gfxspectrograph
- New mute and solo button context menus with toggle/exclusive/clear options
- Add-FX dialog: remembers recent searches in dropdown list
- MIDI editor: rename current MIDI take from MIDI editor menu
- Option to disable alt key opening menus in main, midi editor, mixer windows
- Render stem actions now render pre-fader signal, new actions for old post-fader stems behavior
- Prefs/editing behavior: slider for tab-to-transient sensitivity
- Glue: glues items to project samplerate if project samplerate is set
- Routing matrix: fixed some scrollbar bugs, improved tooltips, added track grouping view
- Saving a project with copy/move that has media loaded into ReaSamplomatic and ReaVerb now copies that media to project directory
- Option in Prefs/Appearance to allow choosing track group display modes (ribbons, lines, none)
- SUBTLE IMPROVEMENTS
- Better pooling of media file resources for better RAM use (especially with lots of splits)
- Better automatic track naming, updating of UI on autoname
- Better pooling of pitch shifter resources (track-pooled to avoid excess reinitializations)
- Undo system: reduced memory use throughout (better granularity etc)
- WavPack: updated to 4.50, fixed bug in metadata reading, BWF tag read/write
- Recording volume/pan automation with ganged/grouped tracks is now supported
- Better ganged/grouped vol/pan fader behavior (relative levels not lost at extremities)
- MIDI media items no longer reset CCs at end, just pitch and notes
- ReaEQ: better deferred display updating, uses LICE bitmaps (todo: full LICE conversion)
- Removed excess ini file writing resizing midi editor CC lane
- Removing presets in preset list now cleans up the preset file more
- FIXED STUFF
- MCP: multiple track selection follows MCP track order and visibility
- Shift+Click for time selection behaves better with snap and other options
- Shift+Click for loop selection in ruler now works correctly when time+loop selections locked
- Fixed touch automation on track mutes
- Screenset window now updates shortcuts when using alternate recording section
- Prefs/Keyboard is back, has link to actions window
- Improved threadsafeness of media creation and peak cache system
- Fixed relative grid actions in midi editor showing display
- Fixed auto-add of envelope setting initial (t=0) value
- Fixed crash on JS with only outputs and opening pin manager
- Fixes for tab to transient and zero crossing detection for heavily stretched items
- Improved behavior of preference to not allow projects to override audio hardware sample rate
- Fix for ReaNINJAM problems introduced in 2.45 (ogg end of stream behavior)
- Fixed GDI leak in ReaEQ added in 2.42 (nyquist line drawing)
- Fixed GDI leak in skinned-scrollbar code
- Restore MIDI editor note row display state when reopening a project
- AU: update generic UI on factory default preset loading
- Fix for JS with only outputs crashing when plugin pin matrix opened
- Fix for preset system storing large presets (ini file line size issue)
- Fix for parameter modulation/automation reading when "run fx when stopped" is disabled
- Moved many JS fx from old_unsupported back to their authors path