Reaper 3.04

Reaper 3.04 is considered as a windows application supported to 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.

Major Features:

1. Fast, Powerful Editing
   • Drag and drop to import, arrange, and render
   • Freely mix audio, MIDI, video, still image media on any track
   • Easily move, split, glue, resize, trim, loop, time stretch, pitch shift, fade, crossfade, slip, snap to grid, without switching tools
   • Intuitive zoom, scroll, scrub, jog, tab to audio transient, MIDI navigation
   • Simple and powerful nested folder system allows group editing, routing, bussing, all in one step
   • Full automation recording, playback, and editing support for track controls and plug-ins
   • Easily manage tempo, time signature, and varispeed changes
   • Separate audio or MIDI into freely arrangeable takes and lanes for easy comping
   • Easily copy or move regions, to quickly try out alternate arrangements
2. Plug-in Support
   • Insert almost any third-party audio or MIDI plug-in: VST, VSTi, DX, DXi, AU (OSX only), JS
   • ReWire (audio and MIDI) any capable application for even more flexibility
   • Fully automatic plug-in delay compensation (PDC)
   • Sidechain any plug-in, even if the plug-in does not natively support sidechaining
   • Apply FX in real time, or non-destructively render FX output
   • Real-time network FX processing: use other local machines as an FX farm
3. 64-bit ReaPlugs Suite
   • Unlimited multiband EQ with draggable nodes
   • Graphical FFT EQ/dynamics processing
   • Technical and multiband compression
   • Flexible, open-format convolution reverb
   • Real-time pitch correction, with Elastique 2 Pro built in
   • Multitap delay, basic synthesizer, sample player, vocoder, algorithmic reverb, and more
   • Special-use plug-ins to virtualize outboard hardware, stream audio, connect to NINJAM servers, and more
   • Includes the JS audio and midi plug-in scripting engine, and hundreds of user-programmable effects
4. Intangibles
   • REAPER starts and loads fast - be ready to record in just a few seconds
   • Portable - put REAPER in your pocket and run it from a USB key or other removable media
   • Tightly coded - installer is only a few MB, updates can be installed in less than a minute
   • Rapid, efficient development - new features and optimizations are added quickly and often
   • Very active, enthusiastic, and helpful user forum, get help quickly
   • Fantastic and readable user-created manual
   • An honest business model that aims to provide the best possible user experience.

Enhancements:

• Joystick MIDI improvements (modeless config, submodes, etc)
• Allow ctrl+drag copy of selected areas of items even with very small selections
• Actions: split selected items at project markers, split selected items at grid
• Action: remove content behind selected items (shift-X by default)
• Crossfade selected items action allows time selection that is completely within both items
• Fixed bug with render dialogs render master not being restored from configuration
• ReaDelay: fixed label of delay length (from QN to 8N)
• Fixed some bugs relating to Unicode conversions when getting long UI strings
• OSX: fixed sending 1 and 2 byte messages to MIDI hardware
• Ctrl+drag (pencil mode) creates empty MIDI item if no item is selected
• SiF meters now show actual signal
• Batch rendering will no longer show save prompt/project properties if preference set
• MIDI editor: fixed sorting and mouse hit testing of overlapping notes
• MIDI editor: Undo/redo of certain actions from within editor updates cached note names
• MIDI editor: fixed scroll issues with last clicked note selection
• MIDI editor: notes are not created when dragging vertically
• MIDI editor: action to cycle through multiple items loaded in one editor (alt+N by default)
• MIDI editor: better paste edit cursor behavior with looped items
• Menu bar shows recording format, device settings, optionally free disk space including time
• Normalize as much as +120dB (up from +36dB)
• Allow resizing tracks in folder compact (not supercompact) mode
• Toolbar icons show current state for many global toggle actions
• Fixed relative filename item paste issues (when option to use relative files before fully qualified path is set)
• Disabling record arm for tracks now sends all notes off
• New JS: adpcm_simulator
• Fixed project load splash screen leak
• Better track vertical resize behaviors with varying arrange view sizes
• Fixed open performance meter causing crashes in certain instances
• VST: Support for plug-ins with Unicode filenames
• VST: UAD plug-ins always get constant blocksizes (so that they can loop without extra latency)
• VST: extra UAD mutexing on opening of UI.

Requirements:

• Windows (32-bit):  Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7 or WINE  (limited support for W98/ME).
• Windows (64-bit):  Windows XP/Vista/7 x64  (requires x64 compatible drivers and plug-ins).
• OS X: 10.4 or 10.5,  PPC or Intel  (Intel recommended).