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 3.6 :
- 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 3.65 :
- VST: bridged plug-in automation improvements, especially with plug-ins that dominate main thread
- VST: fixed deadlock on certain bridged plug-ins on Windows
• Envelopes:
- enable visual feedback from hidden envelopes by default
- user preference to enable writing automation to hidden envelopes
- more consistent behavior of action to add 4 envelope points at time selection
- preference for double-click to edit the envelope point (vs adding or resetting a point)
• API:
- export ApplyNudge function
- fixed GetIconThemeStruct() offsets that had changed in 3.6
• Envelope lanes:
- display envelope value in envelope lane control panel
- more consistent behavior of slider in trim/read mode
- respect user preference to not arm envelopes automatically when adding
• Nudge:
- window opens on startup if it was open when REAPER was last closed
- account for take play rate when snapping contents to grid
