REAPER v7.25 - October 14, 2024
Cow Tools
Downloads:

Windows (15MB installer)
Windows x64 (15MB installer)
Windows 11 arm64ec BETA (12MB installer)
macOS Intel (20MB DMG)
macOS 64-bit Intel (22MB DMG)
macOS Universal (26MB DMG)
Linux x86_64 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux i686 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux armv7l (11MB .tar.xz)
Linux aarch64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

• Color theme: allow theme to define empty arrange view area and empty arrange view area vertical shading colors that are identical ^.
• Envelopes: fix non-square points created on square-point-only envelopes when editing
• FX: fix parameter linking being set incorrectly when adding/removing ReaEQ/ReaXcomp bands
• FX: fix potential deadlock when toggling bypass and in automation-write mode
• Linux: fix mouse positioning bugs with certain window managers (7.23 regression)
• Media explorer: properly sort positive values in the peak or loudness column ^.
• Metronome: fix skipped beats when increasing project playback rate ^.
• Parameter modulation: fix keyboard support with more than 2 windows open at once ^.
• Project loading: fix potential lost sends when loading with certain FX ^.
• Project tabs: hide/show FX comment window when switching project tabs ^.
• ReaLimit: fix rounding when using mousewheel on controls ^.
• Recording: fix actions to add take marker at mouse position when mouse is over a currently-recording media item ^.
• Render: add option to automatically reopen render dialog modelessly after render finishes
• Render: add option to shade areas that do not contribute to LUFS-I ^.
• Render: after render, if there are not too many overs, support moving edit cursor from one over to the next
• Render: clicking on an already-selected rendered file in the list returns the display to "live" if still rendering ^.
• Render: fix marker display with certain themes
• Render: add actions to jump to first clip or loudest sample to Stats/Charts menu (for accessibility)
• Render: preserve render peaks preview time selection when switching between rendered files, resizing dialog, or reopening modelessly
• Render: rearrange buttons at bottom of render setup dialog for better space utilization
• Render: restore vu meter peak hold values when reopening render process dialog modelessly
• Render: support defining a wildcard (like $project) as the master track substitution for the $track wildcard ^.
• Render: use theme colors for render statistics listview gridlines
• Render: use theme marker/region lane background colors in render peaks display
• Render: when adding project markers/regions from render dialog, update render display and include the new markers/regions in HTML render statistics
• Render: fix possible memory leak following online render
• Wildcards: warn if the user enters a wildcard character in the directory field in the render or batch converter dialogs
• Windows: fix JSFX spacebar behavior (v7.23 regression) ^.

REAPER v7.23 - October 3, 2024
Cow Tools
Downloads:

Windows (15MB installer)
Windows x64 (15MB installer)
macOS Intel (20MB DMG)
macOS 64-bit Intel (22MB DMG)
macOS Universal (26MB DMG)
Linux x86_64 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux i686 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux armv7l (11MB .tar.xz)
Linux aarch64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

• Arrange view: improve appearance of loop indicators when grid is displayed under item with certain blend modes used ^.
• Automation: add preference to control which envelope is recorded to when pre-fx and post-fx envelopes are both armed
• Automation: fix volume/pre-fx volume envelope interactions when recording automation via envelope panel
• Automation: reset latches (if not in Latch Preview) when moving edit cursor while stopped/paused ^.
• Automation: fix issues with instant/toggle edits and latch preview mode ^.
• Automation: improve various FX behaviors when transitioning to touch state ^.
• Automation: improve latch behavior of FX bypass automation ^.
• Automation: improve take FX behavior when stopped
• Automation: reduce CPU overhead when automated FX parameters have no changes
• Automation: actions to clear track latches also clear take envelope latches
• Automation: actions to write value to currently-writing envelopes affect take envelopes
• Batch converter: fix applying fade-in/fade-out when converting mono media and applying FX
• Batch converter: improve responsiveness with very large numbers of files
• Batch converter: improve support for converting video media items imported from arrange ^.
• CLAP: fix race conditions with bypass changes initiated by plug-in ^.
• CLAP: improve behavior when reopening plugins that support resizeable UI ^.
• Click source: double-click opens source properties dialog
• Click source: add "use project metronome samples/frequencies" to presets menu
• Click source: copy click samples when saving project with media
• Custom menu editor: export menu name when writing .ReaperMenu
• Custom menu editor: importing .ReaperMenu/.ReaperMenuSet are now non-destructive, can cancel or apply changes
• Custom menu editor: importing .ReaperMenu allows importing from compatible contexts (ex: export as Main toolbar, import to Floating toolbar :
• Custom menu editor: import menu name when importing .ReaperMenu into its original context
• Custom menu editor: improve behavior when drag/dropping .ReaperMenu/.ReaperMenuSet
• Envelopes: add options in Preferences/Appearance to control envelope point size scaling ^.
• Extension API: add IsWindowTextField()
• Extension API: add PCM_SOURCE_EXT_SET_PREVIEW_LOOPCNT, available for track preview registers
• Extension API: update hwnd_info hook to allow more context for window information
• Freeze: fix freeze-to-FX issues relating to bypass automation
• FX: improve bypass behavior when toggling via Ctrl+B or clicking in chain list
• FX: improve focus behavior on Windows when clicking Remove button ^.
• FX: fix LV2, CLAP, and FX container preset display/navigation issues ^.
• Grid: fix snapping/navigating to metronome grid in certain cases ^.
• Grid: when using metronome grid and click multiplier, apply multiplier to swing grid
• Item ruler: improve display with very short media items
• Lanes: fix comping MIDI when media is not looped and pooled MIDI is disabled ^.
• Lanes: ignore preference to add whole recording when auto-punching and not adding lanes ^.
• Lanes: improve behavior when splitting comp areas with crossfade left or center ^.
• Lanes: MIDI export ignores lanes that are not playing back
• Lanes: set last clicked lane (copy/paste destination) when clicking empty space in lane header area ^.
• Localization: add option to ignore langpack-defined scaling
• Localization: add option to show unlocalized strings in menu items
• Localization: add option to show tooltips with pre-translated text on mouseover
• Localization: improve localization of docked screenset window title
• LV2: improve initial sizing of some plug-ins on Linux ^.
• LV2: optimized scanning of presets
• Media explorer: improve behavior of zoom via scrollbar and mousewheel ^.
• Metadata: avoid recursively re-encoding IXML metadata
• Metadata: encode .wav INFO metadata as 8-bit ASCII (when lossless) for compatibility with Windows Explorer
• Metadata: improve IXML encoding compliance
• Metering: fix potential stereo RMS post-fader track meter readout inaccuracy
• Metronome/click source: allow multiple simultaneous voices when playing samples
• Metronome/click source: increase maximum click pattern length to 72 beats
• Metronome/click source: restore 4x click multiplier
• Metronome/click source: support presets for click samples/frequencies
• Metronome/click source: always show editable text version of click pattern
• Metronome/click source: improve realtime audio performance when loading samples
• MIDI editor: add preference to avoid setting MIDI items on non-playing lanes visible
• MIDI editor: fix rounding inconsistencies in action to adjust MIDI event velocity
• MIDI editor: improve display of recording notes during overdub/replace recording
• MIDI editor: slightly reduce sensitivity of action to adjust MIDI note velocity to be more useful for Windows mousewheel
• Normalize: add preference for normalize actions to apply to all takes within a media item
• Normalize: add setting to adjust mono media an additional -3dB when normalizing media items, rendering, or converting
• Normalize: change action descriptions to be clearer about whether common gain is applied when using most recent settings
• Normalize: consistent wording for all normalize actions and dropdowns
• Normalize: fix item normalization when using item channel modes
• Normalize: improve precision of action to normalize media items using common gain
• Normalize: support normalizing items separately, to loudest item, or as if they were one long item
• Paste: action to paste as new takes supports pasting files from explorer/finder/etc
• Peaks: support displaying any two of spectrogram, spectral peaks and loudness graph at the same time
• Peaks: improve appearance of loudness graph when zoomed in
• Peaks: support opacity control for loudness graph
• Project bay: show media from RS5k, ReaVerb, etc in source media view, support copy/move/replace media
• Project tabs: improve play state indicator state during/after render ^.
• Project tabs: show/hide item notes windows when switching tabs ^.
• Project tabs: when a playing background project stops at end of project, do not stop playing foreground project
• Razor edits: fix snapping to media item edges ^.
• ReaScript: make EEL2 time_precise() return similar values to Lua versions on Linux
• ReaScript: add GetSetTrackGroupMembershipEx()
• ReaScript: document gfx.mouse_cap modifier key flags for all operating systems regardless of which OS the documentation is generated on
• ReaScript: improve documentation for deprecated/discouraged functions
• ReaScript: clarify that GetSelectedMediaItem(), CountSelectedMediaItems() are discouraged (and why)
• ReaScript: [Track/Take]FX_CopyTo[Track/Take]() correctly copy automation ^.
• ReaVerb: fix incorrect output with stereo impulse response, silent left channel, and very sparse right channel ^.
• Recording: improve realtime performance when initializing recording
• Recording: restore behavior of adding takes when auto-punching selected items, not adding lanes, and new recording adds media items ^.
• Region/marker manager: importing from csv (merge with existing) leaves all existing markers/regions intact ^.
• Render: add button to run actual render to file after successful dry run render
• Render: add right-click menu action to reopen render peaks dialog modelessly, to allow focus to return to project
• Render: after adding to the render queue, update render queue window if it is open
• Render: clicking render peaks display sets edit cursor in project
• Render: display cursor at mouse position when mouse is within render peaks display
• Render: display multichannel, non-rectified peaks in HTML render statistics
• Render: display project regions in HTML render statistics even if the region does not fall entirely within the bounds of the rendered file
• Render: display short-term loudness graph by default (can be disabled) and loudness/gain reduction tooltip
• Render: display timeline/ruler below render peaks display
• Render: during or after rendering, update displayed filename when changing selected file in render list
• Render: ensure final samples of rendered file are analyzed for render statistics
• Render: fix peaks display when normalizing/limiting stems to master
• Render: fix possible incorrect display of rendered file count after changing render settings ^.
• Render: fix possible incorrect sample rate used when rendering with "preserve source media sample rate if possible" enabled
• Render: fix render peaks display when user resizes render window to more than twice its original size
• Render: fix render peaks display with very short renders
• Render: fix switching peaks display by clicking in rendered file list when rendering selected tracks or media items via master
• Render: improve render peaks display on retina
• Render: include "show project markers" and "show project regions" checkboxes in HTML render statistics only if the rendered files overlap markers or regions
• Render: increase default size of render process dialog
• Render: increase resolution of loudness statistic history
• Render: launch file, show in folder, media explorer buttons respect the current selection in the rendered file list
• Render: move actions to jump to loudest or first clipping sample to render peaks display right-click menu
• Render: move options for completed render window-closing behavior from render process window to render setup window
• Render: optimize mid-render peaks drawing
• Render: right-click render peaks display to insert project marker or create project region
• Render: show project markers/regions in render peaks display
• Render: support adding rendered files to project from render process window
• Render: support changing render statistics display preferences from Preferences/Audio/Rendering
• Render: support changing render statistics preferences from render dialog
• Render: support creating time selection in render peaks display, on mouseup the time selection is created in the project
• Render: support hiding project markers/regions in HTML render statistics
• Render: support normalizing/limiting to master when rendering selected media items, using region render matrix, or any render setup that does not involve processing everything through the master track
• Render: support sorting render statistics listview
• Render: when rendering multiple files, support normalizing the loudest file and applying common gain adjustment to all files ^.
• Render: when rendering multiple files, support normalizing as if one long file
• Render: do not corrupt UTF-8 characters when truncating filename for UI controls ^.
• Ruler: add actions, ruler context menu entries to set or reset project start time or start measure
• Ruler: avoid displaying unnecessary fractional seconds in media item, media explorer rulers
• SD2: adjust media item length after reloading media with new parameters
• SD2: leave source properties dialog open after reloading media
• SD2: support saving current decoding parameters as default
• Take marker editor: do not apply the displayed position/length to the marker unless the user edited it ^.
• Text: default to OS string rendering on macOS
• Text: correct drawing of decomposed unicode glyphs in various places ^.
• Tempo map: fix editing tempo at existing time signature change when editing via transport ^.
• Tempo map: improve warning when editing a time signature marker would create a partial measure
• Tempo map: when editing time signature change position, ignore the current time signature when calculating the new position ^.
• Timecode generator: double-click opens source properties dialog
• Tooltips: fix tooltip clearing on certain mouse movements in arrange
• Tooltips: improve loudness tooltip when zoomed in to samples
• Track groups: support up to 128 groups
• Track groups: do not show full list of empty groups, limit to highest used/named group + 16
• Track groups: group window shows bullet next to groups that are in-use
• Transport: label show-transport actions as "transport (play/record/stop...)" in case the user doesn't know what a transport is
• Video: fix issues looping items with audio length discrepancies
• VST: improve performance with large numbers of automated parameters/plug-ins
• VST: ignore programs for VSTs with a single program ^.
• VST: improve TCP/MCP click behavior of gui-less bridged plug-ins ^.

REAPER v7.21 - August 24, 2024
Okey dokey!
Downloads:

Windows (15MB installer)
Windows x64 (15MB installer)
macOS Intel (20MB DMG)
macOS 64-bit Intel (22MB DMG)
macOS Universal (26MB DMG)
Linux x86_64 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux i686 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux armv7l (11MB .tar.xz)
Linux aarch64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

• Actions: actions that scroll the affected track into view only scroll if the track is entirely offscreen ^.
• Appearance: do not show vertical mouse indicator line when continuous scrolling is active
• CLAP: improve handling of plugin request to resize GUI ^.
• Click source: preserve pattern when splitting or duplicating click source items ^.
• Custom menu editor: fix refresh of UI when importing ReaperMenu or ReaperMenuSet
• Custom menu editor: prompt to save any unsaved changes before importing ReaperMenu/ReaperMenuSet
• Freeze: correctly restore lane play state when unfreezing ^.
• Lanes: add new action to move media items up to minimize lane usage, without preserving relative lane positions ^.
• Lanes: fix loop recording behavior when recording into multiple tracks at once (7.20 regression) ^.
• Localization: fix UTF-8 issues on Preferences / Editing behavior page ^.
• LV2: fix support for plug-ins that use the urn: URI scheme ^.
• LV2: fix various plug-ins (7.20 regression) ^.
• MIDI: reset color when un-pooling MIDI ^.
• OGG Vorbis: fix writing of files when invalid CBR bitrate is specified ^.
• ReaScript: fix issue with FX_GetPresetIndex() and VSTs that have no built-in presets
• Region manager: fix sorting by marker index after index has been edited ^.
• Regions: improve behavior when editing region length in samples ^.
• Render: ensure render window is entirely onscreen ^.
• Wildcards: add $lane wildcard, supported by rendering, metadata, and batch converter ^.

REAPER v7.19 - July 23, 2024
Establishing what we do most of best and finding fewer ways of doing more of it less
Downloads:

Windows (15MB installer)
Windows x64 (15MB installer)
macOS Intel (20MB DMG)
macOS 64-bit Intel (22MB DMG)
macOS Universal (26MB DMG)
Linux x86_64 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux i686 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux armv7l (11MB .tar.xz)
Linux aarch64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

• Actions: actions to up-rank/down-rank take under mouse will target comp areas if actively comping
• Actions: add actions to move time selection/loop points start/end points to cursor (preserving length)
• Actions: fix redraw of controls when clearing default-state latches in latch preview mode ^.
• Actions: improve descriptions of actions to up-rank, down-rank, or cycle through rankings for take or comp area under mouse
• Actions window: if showing command IDs, match command IDs when filtering
• Actions window: improve behavior of Find Key window, allow window to stay open on match
• Actions window: improve macOS/Linux keyboard behavior in key binding window
• Appearance: optionally display vertical line at mouse position, with various snapping options
• CLAP: support CLAP_RENDER_OFFLINE notifications ^.
• Fixed lanes: add preference for MIDI comping to create pooled copies or not
• FX browser: fix VST filesystem navigation for certain symbolic paths
• Lanes: improve interactions between take ranking and comp areas
• Linux: fix sweep-drag behavior in various managers
• Media explorer: add option to display preview position and time selection in beats for audio files, using embedded or estimated tempo
• Media explorer: clear time selection by pressing escape key while preview area is focused
• Media explorer: do not display estimated tempo for file types that will ignore estimated tempo on import
• Media explorer: do not recalculate beat grid when creating a time selection while tempo-matching to project
• Media explorer: fix action to move column to far left on macOS
• Media explorer: move setting to display preview position in fractional vs whole seconds to Show menu (from Options menu)
• Media explorer: support navigating through editable metadata columns with left/right arrow keys, in addition to up/down arrow keys
• Media explorer: when displaying preview ruler, playback position, or time selection in beats, use raw beat count rather than measures.beats (because there is no time signature context)
• Media item edge edits: ignore preference to limit edge edits to source media for all but the item being directly edited, to prevent relative edge edits from going out of sync ^.
• Media item edge edits: ignore preference to limit edge edits to source media if media item edge is already outside the source media bounds
• Metronome/click: only display deprecated click sounds/shapes (for example, "sine (soft start)") in dropdown if project is loaded with deprecated settings
• Metronome/click: add button to reset click frequencies to default
• Metronome/click: add graphical control for editing metronome pattern
• Metronome/click: support triplets, 3 over 2, 3 over 4 (click the + buttons below the pattern editor grid to set)
• Metronome/click: deprecate 4x click multiplier
• Metronome/click: support double-length click pattern when using double-speed metronome
• Metronome/click: support up to 4 different beat types/samples
• Metronome/click: add sine+square metronome sound option
• Metronome/click: automatically update metronome pattern when changing time signature
• Metronome/click: in new projects, primary click is higher-pitched than secondary click by default
• Metronome/click: preserve metronome/rhythm pattern for tempo/time signature change points, even if the point does not have "set metronome pattern" enabled
• Metronome/click: support entering click volume directly in dB
• Metronome/click: when changing time signature without changing click pattern, extend the click pattern if necessary with secondary beats
• Metronome/click: when editing time signature marker, default to compound metronome pattern for compound time signatures
• Metronome/click: always loop source for click source items by default
• Monitoring FX: improve configuration state saving after window position/visibility changes
• Notation: fix inserting notes on Windows ^.
• Notation: prevent crash when switching media items in notation view ^.
• Notation: improve hit testing at note edges ^.
• Peaks: improve drawing performance when moving items without any tempo changes
• Pin connector: fix usability issues when scrollbar is visible
• Preferences: move fixed lane comping preferences to new Editing Behavior / Fixed Lane Comping page
• Preferences: add some basic comping help text to Preferences / Editing Behavior / Fixed Lane Comping
• Razor edit: support copying locked media items and envelopes
• ReaScript: add GetSetTempoTimeSigMarkerFlag()
• ReaScript: GetSetEnvelopeInfo_String() can be used to get/set various envelope attributes (visible, armed, active, show in lane)
• Recording: do not extend recording to span time selection when recording 2 takes that do not overlap ^.
• Ruler: add "Measures.Fractions" ruler display mode
• Ruler: add checkbox to project settings dialog to base ruler markings on customized project start measure
• Ruler: add checkbox to time signature markers to reset measure grid ^.
• Ruler: add preference to reset grid labels at start of regions
• Ruler: display labels at grid reset measures if possible
• Ruler: always display whole measures as 1.1, 2.1 etc (not 1.1.00, etc) when displaying beats
• Ruler: internal improvements to ruler grid calculations
• Ruler: add "metronome" grid display, which marks every metronome click
• Ruler: when displaying samples, space labels similarly to when displaying time (space labels apart by integer seconds if possible)
• Ruler: add separate option to shade arrange view vertically when ruler does not display beats
• Ruler: automatically add a small amount of contrast to vertical grid shading colors, if the option to divide the arrange view vertically is enabled and the theme colors for odd/even track backgrounds are identical
• Ruler: support dotted note grid lengths in grid settings dialog
• Theme adjuster: improve import/export prompting
• Toolbar editor: include animation flags when copying/pasting items
• Toolbar editor: prevent pasting actions into contexts in which they are not compatible
• VST3: simplify handling of plugins that generate MIDI events ^.
• Windows: support disabling crash dump generation via unchecking option in installer

REAPER v7.17 - June 26, 2024
As before, but adjusted
Downloads:

Windows (15MB installer)
Windows x64 (15MB installer)
macOS Intel (20MB DMG)
macOS 64-bit Intel (22MB DMG)
macOS Universal (26MB DMG)
Linux x86_64 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux i686 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux armv7l (11MB .tar.xz)
Linux aarch64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

• Actions: add actions to clear or delete takes on selected tracks based on up-ranked/down-ranked state
• Actions: add actions to up-rank or down-rank take under mouse
• Actions: add actions to split media items at take markers (all takes)
• Actions: improve description of actions to change crossfade-on-split options
• Actions: improve description of actions to move loop points to time selection, move time selection to loop points ^.
• Actions: improve performance of imploding fixed lanes to takes
• Actions: move/copy contents of time selection to edit cursor now obeys edit cursor/time selection preference for new cursor position
• Actions: update description of MIDI editor save action
• Actions: update Preferences/Project/Item Fade Defaults after running actions that change options
• Actions: fix actions to crossfade media items when using free item positioning or fixed lanes ^.
• Appearance: lower default value for 'hide buttons when take height is less than X pixels' preference
• API: track previews report project position in absolute_time_s
• AU: provide track name context info for plugins that request it
• Automation: add option in Preferences/Buffering to control whether anticipative FX is used on tracks in automation write modes
• Automation: add options in Preferences/Editing Behavior/Automation to unselect all envelope points in response to various clicks
• Color theme: add separate take marker color for selected items
• Color theme: un-deprecate theme elements for unselected marker and region text
• Color theme: use previous default values as fallbacks for new marker/region theme elements if the theme does not define them ^.
• Default theme: fix margins on transport selection revealed when text very large ^.
• Default theme: fix theme transport background color when pure black ^.
• Default theme: prevent TCP track numbers clipping ^.
• Default theme: add new Default 7.0 Theme Adjuster
• Editing: fix auto-crossfading media items when trim behind edits is enabled
• Glue: preserve color, if all glued items have the same custom color
• Glue: preserve up-ranked/down-ranked status, if all glued items have the same status
• Glue: preserve take markers when gluing
• JSFX: fix load of certain preset/state for various JSFX including IX/MIDI_ and Guitar/Amp Modeler
• JSFX: fix UTF-8 support for parameter combo boxes on Windows
• Lanes: add explicit 'Do not add lanes' menu item to Options/'New recording that overlaps existing media item' submenu
• Lanes: copy source media take name to comping lane
• Lanes: fix recording into lanes when multiple files are created due to file size limit preference
• Lanes: ignore setting to automatically remove empty lanes when displaying only one lane ^.
• Lanes: optimize drawing performance when zoomed in to a track with many lanes
• Linux: improve knob appearance when using dark mode libSwell.colortheme
• Localization: support localizing modifier key names
• macOS: fix quirks with 'show last undo point in title bar' option
• Marker/region manager: extend existing option to display only take markers in active takes that are within the visible part of the media item
• Media: fix potential performance/stability issue when replacing media via drag/drop and project bay ^.
• Media import: properly handle user canceling import via multiple-item or tempo-match prompts ^.
• Media import: do not prompt to tempo-match video, image, or tempo-less MIDI files
• Media import: do not prompt to adjust tempo if tempo is guessed and file is more than 8 measures long
• Media import: when dragging in media from media explorer with suggested tempo and user asks to adjust media, do so
• Media import: add preference to prompt to adjust media or project bpm if media tempo is guessed from file length
• Media items: add action to delete all takes that are not up-ranked ^.
• Media items: add action to import media cues as take markers
• Media items: don't show locked item button when items are too small
• MIDI editor: add action to set measure grid
• MIDI editor: add action to toggle snap to key signature
• MIDI editor: filter out events with invalid timestamps when loading ^.
• MIDI editor: fix adding/editing of Port events in list editor ^.
• MIDI editor: fix displaying length for multiple selected notes with mixed time signatures ^.
• MIDI editor: fix latent response of actions to move CC events by pixel/grid
• Mouse modifiers: add media item left-click modifiers to split items with crossfade left/right/center
• Mouse modifiers: add media item mouse modifiers to split item ignoring snap
• Mouse modifiers: add modifiers to split razor edits with crossfade to inside, outside, or center
• Mouse modifiers: fix media item left-click actions being ignored when clicking on bottom half of item
• Peaks: display loudness peaks/tooltips correctly when a media item consists of a subset of channels of a multichannel file ^.
• Peaks: use new loudness peaks file format which supports per-channel loudness, previously-calculated loudness peaks may be automatically recalculated
• Pin connector/channel mapping control: support mousewheel vertical scroll if the mouse is anywhere in the grid
• Preferences: create new General/Undo tab for undo-related settings
• Preferences: create new Appearance/Ruler/Grid tab for ruler/grid-related settings
• Quantize items: fix potential crash when running action to quantize items to grid ^.
• Razor edits: default actions/behaviors that split at razor edit edges crossfade to the inside by default, rather than to the right
• ReaScript: support rendering multichannel media using RenderFileSection() ^.
• ReaVerb: improve list scrollbar behavior
• Recording: add global option for whether to record into an existing fixed lane if there is space available
• Recording: all tracks, including fixed lane tracks by default, obey project overlapping recording behavior
• Recording: fixed lane tracks can override project overlapping recording behavior
• Recording: recording into a fixed lane track with overlapping recording behavior set to 'do not add lanes' will record into an existing lane only
• Recording: respect project settings for how to handle overlapping recording when in item auto-punch record mode
• Recording: fix potential rounding error when gaplessly switching files during recording ^.
• Region/marker manager: display length for take markers
• Region/marker manager: improve display when marker color has been manually set to the default color
• Render: support multichannel media when drag/drop rendering item ^.
• Render: add render setting to preserve source media sample rate if possible ^.
• Render: update some render dialog controls when output file name changes
• Render: when rendering multiple files at once, support writing render statistics HTML per file or combined
• Retroactive MIDI recording: fix potential incorrect behavior when as multiple takes during playback
• Sends: fix multichannel downmix when receiving track has fewer channels than source send ^.
• Split: add global preference to crossfade left/right/center when splitting
• Split: add actions to change crossfade left/right/center preference, cycle through preferences
• Split: legacy actions to split (select left, force crossfade left) will ignore new global preference
• Split: hide legacy actions to split (select left, force crossfade left) in actions list; existing custom actions and scripts will still work
• Split: respect crossfade-left, crossfade-center, crossfade-right preference when splitting at grid, markers, or cues
• Split: deselect unaffected media items after actions to split at mouse
• Split: fix behavior when crossfade would extend beyond item start/end ^.
• Split: add actions to split items at time selection or razor edit, crossfading to inside, outside, or center
• Split: all actions to split at time selection (crossfading to inside, outside, or center) will split on razor edits, if any exist
• Take markers: add actions to create or delete take marker within time selection
• Take markers: avoid possible crash when editing or deleting take markers on currently-recording items
• Take markers: sync comping and source lanes after deleting take marker
• Take markers: sync source edits to take markers from source lane to comping lane
• Take markers: reverse-sync edits to take markers from comping lane back to source lane ^.
• Take markers: support copying take markers via ctrl/cmd-drag
• Take markers: support editing take marker position in take marker dialog
• Take markers: support length parameter for take markers
• Take markers: add preference for 1-5 up-rank levels (default=3), 0-1 down-rank levels (default=1)
• Take markers: when adding take markers to media items in the comping lane, update the associated media items in the source lane, as well as any other comping lane items that are synced with that source item ^.
• Takes: add 'at mouse' versions of actions to delete takes based on up-rank/down-rank marks
• Takes: actions to delete takes based on take ranking markers only consider visible take markers
• Takes: add actions to add up-ranked/down-ranked take markers at 1 second or 2 seconds before play position, if playing back
• Takes: add actions to clear up-rank/down-rank take markers
• Takes: add actions to cycle through up-rank/down-rank levels
• Takes: add actions to split at take markers
• Takes: add actions to up-rank/down-rank take or clear rankings within time selection
• Takes: add context menu for take up-rank/down-rank markers
• Takes: add default arrange_takemarker cursor
• Takes: move take markers context submenu, now adjacent to stretch markers context submenu
• Track spacers: fix removing track spacers from mixer ^.
• Undo: add option in preferences to control whether MIDI event selection creates undo points
• VST3: support IPluginFactory3::setHostContext with IRunLoop support on Linux
• Wildcards: support lower-casing all letters of the substitution (see wildcard help) ^.
• Windows: improve behavior when unable to overwrite file with UTF-8 characters ^.

REAPER v7.15 - April 17, 2024
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
Downloads:

Windows (15MB installer)
Windows x64 (15MB installer)
macOS Intel (20MB DMG)
macOS 64-bit Intel (22MB DMG)
macOS Universal (26MB DMG)
Linux x86_64 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux i686 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux armv7l (11MB .tar.xz)
Linux aarch64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

• Accessibility: improve descriptions for various FX/JSFX text edit fields
• Accessibility: improve keyboard accessibility of various sliders via pageup/down, home/end
• Accessibility: improve macOS VoiceOver keyboard focus behavior for sliders in FX, other windows
• Actions: clarify that split actions that select the left-hand item also crossfade to the left of the split point ^.
• Actions: respect global crossfade preference when running actions to split items on grid or at markers
• API: extend screenset API slightly for ReaImGui
• Color theme: fix labeling of odd vs even media item background color in theme tweaker ^.
• FLAC: display error message when attempting to record or render to an unsupported FLAC configuration (more than 8 channels, etc)
• FX: allow reordering reaper-native presets using ctrl+up/down with preset combo box focused
• FX: improve pin connector dialog default size with JSFX ^.
• FX: parse -inf user input in various ReaPlugs dB contexts
• FX: improve ReaDelay length parameter names
• Lanes: fix comp areas breaking when using multiple comping lanes ^.
• macOS: fix mousewheel support in menus on Sonoma
• macOS: improve FX plug-in resize behavior when switching monitors on recent macOS versions
• Media Explorer: improve preserving non-overwritten .mp3 metadata when adding new metadata
• Media explorer: support displaying embedded image metadata (via action or double-click on 'image' column)
• Metadata: automatically set/clear default image type when setting/clearing image metadata
• MIDI editor: improve appearance of measure start with swing grid enabled ^.
• MIDI editor: improve behavior of actions to move notes left/right by grid when using swing or non-1.0 playrate
• MIDI editor: improve keyboard navigation when using swing grid ^.
• MIDI editor: improve swing grid behavior with non-1.0 playrate
• MIDI editor: improve various grid/editing behaviors with 'ignore project tempo' enabled
• Mixer: allow moving tracks to before, within, or after an existing spacer that is before or after the track ^.
• ReaScript: do not correct reversed FX min/max parameters in SetParamNormalized ^.
• ReaScript: fix GetThingFromPoint() when mouse is over track manager and track manager is displaying no tracks ^.
• Regions: fix moving/copying regions with locked media items ^.
• Render: support preserving existing metadata (using best efforts) when rendering master mix or tracks, not just selected media items
• Splash screen: increase status granularity when scanning MIDI devices
• Take markers: do not display markers that occur before the visible item start, regardless of zoom level
• Theme: fix volume knob size in strip mixer
• Tooltips: clear media item tooltip correctly ^.
• VST: fix issues when recording automation on highly-automated plug-ins
• VST: fix support for mapping high MIDI buses to VST3 MIDI buses ^.
• VST: ignore feedback parameter change notifications from plugins while automating

REAPER v7.13 - April 2, 2024
Occam's REAPER
Downloads:

Windows (15MB installer)
Windows x64 (15MB installer)
macOS Intel (20MB DMG)
macOS 64-bit Intel (22MB DMG)
macOS Universal (26MB DMG)
Linux x86_64 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux i686 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux armv7l (11MB .tar.xz)
Linux aarch64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

• API: C/C++ header allows renaming API call names ^.
• Default theme: fix 150% MCP image glitch ^.
• Default theme: move MCP strip index divider up 1 pixel, fix selection dot z-order
• Lanes: fix applying implied fade-in/fade-out when using lane masking
• Lanes: fix fade-in/fade-out/autocrossfade behavior after running actions to crop to playing media items without preserving lanes ^.
• Lanes: fix behavior of action to automatically create comp areas when lanes are collapsed ^.
• Lanes: fix gluing media items when using lane masking
• Lanes: fix saving/restoring lane masking state in .RPP
• Lanes: prevent possible bad output when using lane masking and media items have no fade-in/fade-out ^.
• Lanes: update peaks after disabling lane masking ^.
• Media explorer: fix inconsistency in time selection display/calculation when project has negative start offset ^.
• Media items: fix display of implied fade-in/fade-out when item mix mode is 'enclosed items replace enclosing items'
• Preferences: fix search focus issues with certain REAPER extensions installed
• Render: fix render dialog statistics display when normalizing to common gain and not rendering master mix ^.
• VST: fix support for up to 128 buses ^.

REAPER v7.11 - February 10, 2024
Occam's REAPER
Downloads:

Windows (15MB installer)
Windows x64 (15MB installer)
macOS Intel (20MB DMG)
macOS 64-bit Intel (22MB DMG)
macOS Universal (26MB DMG)
Linux x86_64 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux i686 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux armv7l (11MB .tar.xz)
Linux aarch64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

• API: fix get_config_var() quirks for Playtime 1.x compatibility ^.
• Envelope window: fix macOS focus issue with MIDI learn ^.
• Razor edit: fix some razor edit actions applying to media items outside the razor edit ^.
• ReaScript: fix TakeFX_CopyToTake for containers ^.

REAPER v7.09 - January 17, 2024
Bland Ballad Band
Downloads:

Windows (15MB installer)
Windows x64 (15MB installer)
macOS Intel (20MB DMG)
macOS 64-bit Intel (22MB DMG)
macOS Universal (26MB DMG)
Linux x86_64 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux i686 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux armv7l (11MB .tar.xz)
Linux aarch64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

• Envelopes: restore looping automation item sine/parameteric LFO behavior (revert 7.08 change) ^.
• FX: improve preset navigation behavior when both user and default presets exist with the same name ^.
• Glue: fix crash when gluing empty items (7.08 regression) ^.
• Input FX: fix potential crash with record arm disabled and input FX UI open (7.0 regression)
• JSFX: report correct initial samplerate in @init when ext_noinit is used ^.
• Jump to time: if primary ruler display is samples, parse user-entered 8-digit number as samples rather than timecode ^.
• Lanes: fix pasting razor edits on grouped tracks ^.
• Lanes: set target lane for insert/paste when preference disabled to set target track when clicking in arrange view, and user clicks on the current target track
• Lanes: when naming/renaming lanes, support applying name to all lanes and/or replacing '#' with lane number
• MIDI editor: in track list, hide MIDI media items on hidden tracks when selecting other MIDI items ^.
• Razor edits: fix undo after applying razor edit to envelope ^.
• Razor edits: fix undo of region/marker edits when deleting with ripple-all enabled ^.
• Recording: support $recnumber and $recnumber[N] wildcards, resolve to 1 for the first recorded file with the same name, 2 for the second, etc
• Region manager: set undo point after setting region render channels
• Track manager: allow searching for tracks by name in collapsed folders ^.
• Video: fix reverse and section playback (7.08 regression) ^.

REAPER v7.07 - December 12, 2023
Bland Ballad Band
Downloads:

Windows (15MB installer)
Windows x64 (15MB installer)
macOS Intel (20MB DMG)
macOS 64-bit Intel (22MB DMG)
macOS Universal (26MB DMG)
Linux x86_64 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux i686 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux armv7l (11MB .tar.xz)
Linux aarch64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

• Actions: add action to move edit cursor to left edge of visible arrange view or MIDI piano roll
• Actions: add action to toggle preference to limit media item edge edits to source media content
• Actions: improve logic of GR/LUFS metering toggle actions when tracks have mixed states
• Actions window: reset/copy actions in alternate sections also reset/copy global override states
• Automation items: improve edge point shapes and loopability for sine and parametric LFO types ^.
• API: allow plug-ins to register default-global keyboard assignments via gaccel_global or gaccel_globaltext
• ARA: improve retaining edits through undo/redo
• CLAP: prevent misbehavior when preference enabled to flush FX on loop ^.
• Default theme: layout updates
• Display: improve cursor paste location indicator on free item positioning and fixed lane tracks ^.
• Dynamic split: add action to immediately dynamic split items based on most recent settings
• Editing: add preference to limit edge/crossfade edits to source media content for unlooped media items (checkbox in mouse modifiers preferences)
• Empty items: improve performance with 'stretch to fit' and large amounts of text
• FX: preserve parameter linking if applicable when copying/pasting FX
• FX containers: fix loss of pin names and parameter mappings when pasting FX ^.
• FX containers: fix behavior of single-FX-chain mode when moving FX out of container
• FX containers: fix various action support for FX in containers ^.
• FX containers: preserve mappings, parameter links, envelopes etc when moving FX to/from containers
• Lanes: improve behavior when lanes contain multiple copies of the same source media with different take envelopes ^.
• Lanes: click unsynced media item button to copy edits to a new source lane (existing behavior)
• Lanes: ctrl/cmd+click (or right-click) unsynced media item button to copy media items back to original source lane
• Lanes: alt/opt+click (or right-click) unsynced media item button to discard edits and replace with source lane media
• Lanes: improve behavior when comping looped media items with per-take automation ^.
• Lanes: action to comp into a new copy of lane automatically copies edited media items to new lane and re-comps
• Lanes: action to minimize lane usage respects track edit grouping
• Lanes: add action, menu item, mouse modifier to refresh out-of-sync comp areas
• Lanes: add actions to exit fixed lane view, show only one lane, set small lanes, or set big lanes for all fixed lane tracks in the project
• Lanes: add action to remove empty comp areas
• Lanes: add selected-tracks versions of actions to delete comp areas, delete empty comp areas, delete comp areas including media
• Lanes: add support for copying all edited media items back to source lanes, or discarding all media item edits and replacing from source lanes
• Lanes: comping button on a razor edit in the comping lane containing no items will choose a suitable source lane rather than creating an empty lane
• Lanes: delete unsynced comp areas before running action to minimize lane usage
• Lanes: fix behavior of action to select item under mouse when lanes are collapsed ^.
• Lanes: fix comping into a new copy of lane with MIDI media ^.
• Lanes: fix re-syncing multiple media items when some items have source media in the lane immediately below and some do not
• Lanes: fix some edge cases where comp areas un-sync when edges barely overlap ^.
• Lanes: respect track grouping when running action from unsynced comp area right-click menu ^.
• Lanes: support "Add comp area at time selection" when right-clicking existing comp area on track showing only one lane
• Lanes: support comping media items with "auto-stretch at tempo changes" enabled ^.
• Linux: add drag/drop preview ^.
• Linux: improve support for ini files which are symlinks ^.
• macOS: improve system memory use/free statistics in performance meter
• Markers/Regions: support importing markers with negative time positions ^.
• Metadata: clarify that MPEG 7.1C channel layout is equivalent to SMPTE 7.1
• Metadata: correct descriptions of MPEG 7.1 channel layout metadata
• Metadata: improve descriptions of channel layout metadata ^.
• MIDI editor: account for media item left/right trim when sizing to fit contents
• MIDI editor: display lane information in track list
• MIDI editor: display media item position in track list if multiple media items share the same name
• MIDI editor: display MIDI take names in Contents submenu
• MIDI editor: do not list media items in non-visible, non-playing lanes in MIDI editor track list
• MIDI editor: fix tooltip for "CC selection follows note selection" button ^.
• MIDI editor: sort media items in track list by lane
• MIDI editor: when editor follows track selection, follow lane selection as well
• MIDI editor: when switching active MIDI source, ensure the source is visible in the editor
• Normalization: retain separate target values for peak vs loudness normalization in various dialogs
• Preferences: improve help text for "automatically color" settings in Preferences / Appearance / Peaks/Waveforms
• Razor edits: add action to select media items within razor edit areas
• ReaScript: action to open ReaScript documentation defaults to Lua view
• ReaScript: add support for GetSetMediaTrackInfo("P_LANENAME:n")
• ReaScript: fix TakeFX_Show container support ^.
• ReaScript: GetSetMediaItemInfo("C_LANEPLAYS") returns -1 if media item is on a non-visible, non-playing lane on a non-fixed-lane track
• ReaScript: GetSetMediaItemInfo("I_FIXEDLANE") always returns 0 for non-fixed-lane tracks
• ReaScript: support GetSetMediaItemTakeInfo("I_TAKEFX_NCH"), to get/set the number of take FX channels ^.
• ReaSurroundPan: add 7.1 non-SMPTE channel layout ^.
• ReaSurroundPan: support up to 128 inputs
• Regions: improve description of menu item to set loop points to region ^.
• Render: respect source track render channel request when rendering via master ^.
• Toolbars: restore support for customizing both icon and tooltip
• Toolbars: restore previous tooltip behavior for various actions
• Tracks: always change track selection when clicking lane buttons, unless modifier keys are down
• Tracks: fix moving tracks above spacers when the spacer is above the first track in the project ^.
• Tracks: when preference enabled to change track selection when clicking track controls, ignore modifier keys when processing track selection
• WALTER: support setting/clearing custom controls via wildcards e.g. 'clear tcp.custom.*' or 'clear tcp.*'
• Windows: use new authenticode certificate

REAPER v7.05 - November 12, 2023
Several People Are Typing
Downloads:

Windows (15MB installer)
Windows x64 (15MB installer)
macOS Intel (20MB DMG)
macOS 64-bit Intel (22MB DMG)
macOS Universal (26MB DMG)
Linux x86_64 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux i686 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux armv7l (11MB .tar.xz)
Linux aarch64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

• Comping: fix items in source lanes occasionally displaying as grouped
• FX containers: reduce stack use for nested containers
• Lanes: fix lane delete actions

REAPER v7.03 - November 7, 2023
Several People Are Typing
Downloads:

Windows (15MB installer)
Windows x64 (15MB installer)
macOS Intel (20MB DMG)
macOS 64-bit Intel (22MB DMG)
macOS Universal (26MB DMG)
Linux x86_64 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux i686 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux armv7l (11MB .tar.xz)
Linux aarch64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

• Comp areas: actions to move comp areas up/down re-selects items after running
• Comp areas: actions to move comp areas up/down skips lanes that only have source media within the comp area fadein/fadeout
• Comp areas: actions to move comp areas up/down re-comps items if they are not already in sync
• Comp areas: fix glitch when rapidly dragging comp area from right to left ^.
• Comp areas: improve handling of unlooped media items that are longer than the media source ^.
• Comp areas: when deleting comp areas and media, avoid leaving tiny pieces behind
• Comping: actions to toggle comping set the track to fixed lanes, create a comping lane if the track has never had one; otherwise re-enable most recently used comping lane
• Comping: action to delete comp areas and re-comp ignores crossfades ^.
• Comping: action to delete media within comp areas and re-comp skips lanes with no media
• Comping: allow setting source lane by right-clicking comp area
• Comping: improve behavior when comp areas contain multiple copies of the same media ^.
• Comping: when moving comp areas up/down via buttons or actions, skip empty source lanes
• Comping: when re-enabling comping, handle edits in the comping lane that were made while comping was disabled ^.
• Envelopes: improve organization of context menu
• Envelopes: remove redundant 'Tension:' from mouseover tooltips
• Envelopes: mouseover tooltip on overlapping automation items displays both current and combined item values
• FX: actions to apply first track or take fx also bypass all take or track fx, whichever FX chain is not being rendered ^.
• FX containers: fix parameter modulation issues in certain instances ^.
• FX containers: fix possible incorrect undo state when recording new automation ^.
• FX containers: improve accessibility for nested containers by allowing left/right arrows in chain list to navigate up/down hierarchy
• Keyboard sections: avoid incorrect menu modifiers being generated when editing alternate sections
• Keyboard sections: fix temporary override behavior with modifier keys ^.
• Keyboard sections: improve behavior and default mapping of ESC when copying main action assignments
• Lanes: actions to delete comp areas have no effect if comping is disabled
• Lanes: action to reset lane names preserves comp lane identifiers, but resets comp lane numbers
• Lanes: add actions to explicitly show or hide fixed lane buttons
• Lanes: add action to delete source media within comp areas and re-comp for selected tracks
• Lanes: add menu item, action to delete all lanes except for the clicked lane
• Lanes: add preference to show/play only one lane by default
• Lanes: display lane collapse button when track is tall enough, regardless of user setting for empty space at bottom of track ^.
• Lanes: display media item re-sync buttons when lanes are collapsed ^.
• Lanes: fix behavior of toggle action to set track to fixed lanes when multiple tracks are selected with mixed states
• Lanes: fix crash when right-clicking comp lane that has no comp areas ^.
• Lanes: fix lane size changing when moving media items out of and back into fixed lane tracks ^.
• Lanes: fix occasionally pasting razor edits into the incorrect lanes ^.
• Lanes: fix pencil-drawing media items on tracks with hidden lanes when multiple lanes are playing
• Lanes: fix recording overlapping media on tracks that were formerly set to fixed lanes
• Lanes: recording behaviors are equivalent for a track that has never had lanes vs a track that was formerly in fixed lane view
• Lanes: when disabling fixed lanes, only retain hidden lane information if there are hidden media items or items on multiple lanes ^.
• Lanes: when reordering lanes, only affect other selected tracks with the same number of lanes ^.
• Lanes: when showing/playing only one lane, ignore actions that would result in no lanes or multiple lanes playing
• License import: improve wording and explanation of old license keys
• macOS: fix toolbar switching actions for various toolbars ^.
• Marquee: clear envelope selection if envelope is selected and marquee is largely outside of envelope ^.
• Menus: fix 'move to folder' menu items after customizing menu ^.
• MIDI editor: fix displaying time/value in the correct place ^.
• MIDI editor: when setting enabled, set channel for new events on mouseup rather than mousedown ^.
• Navigator: do not display items in hidden lanes ^.
• Paste: allow pasting media items onto a specific lane when pasting items on multiple tracks ^.
• Preferences: fix disabling backup preferences
• Preferences: fix setting configuration of default item fade length
• Razor edits: display vertical guidelines when creating razor edit areas
• Razor edits: improve horizontal guidelines when editing on free item positioning or fixed lane tracks
• ReaScript: gfx.getchar(65536) returns additional flag if mouse click would hit window ^.
• ReaScript: add set_action_options() for Lua/EEL2 which allows customizing behavior when re-running an already-running script
• ReaScript: fix get_action_context() for alternate keyboard sections ^.
• ReaScript: MIDIEditor_GetTake/EnumTakes() will return NULL rather than take in an invalid item ^.
• ReaScript: optimize CountSelectedMediaItems/GetSelectedMediaItem
• ReaScript: simplify script exported from mouse modifiers preferences
• ReaScript: support setting script toggle state via set_action_options()
• ReaScript: improve IDE suggestion mouse/mousewheel/scroll behavior
• ReaScript: improve IDE help auto-navigate on F1 for some functions
• Recording: add recording option to add overlapping media items in layers, replicating v6 recording option 'Add media items'
• Track reordering: add more options in Preferences/Editing Behavior/Mouse to control folder creation via drag/drop
• Track spacers: action to insert spacer after tracks skips hidden folder children ^.
• Video: support VLC 3.0.19+
• WALTER: fix loading custom images from subdirectories in certain themes ^.
• Wildcards: $hour12 resolves 12:xx as 12 rather than 00 ^.

REAPER v7.01 - October 19, 2023
Several People Are Typing
Downloads:

Windows (15MB installer)
Windows x64 (15MB installer)
macOS Intel (20MB DMG)
macOS 64-bit Intel (22MB DMG)
macOS Universal (26MB DMG)
Linux x86_64 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux i686 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux armv7l (11MB .tar.xz)
Linux aarch64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

• Actions: report toolbar button feedback for deprecated mouse modifier actions ^.
• Comp areas: fix some potential undo glitches ^.
• Comp areas: improve behavior when copying regions that contain comp areas
• FX containers: do not migrate modulation/linking to parent when pasting/moving FX ^.
• Grid: respect 'measure' grid setting when splitting item on grid, moving cursor by grid, etc ^.
• JSFX: fix performance issue with gain reduction scope resized very small ^.
• JSFX: hide loudness meter maximum value display when meter is tiny ^.
• Lanes: display comping button on razor edits in fixed lane tracks even if there is only one lane
• Lanes: do not display comping button on razor edits when fixed lanes have been hidden
• Lanes: improve behavior when moving/copying items between tracks with collapsed lanes ^.
• macOS: fix default theme font
• Parameter modulation: fix parameter linking when copying FX to tracks with existing FX ^.
• Paste: fix pasting multiple media items into empty project with setting enabled to paste into separate tracks
• ReaScript: correct GetMediaTrackInfo() parameter from "I_LANESCOLLAPSED" to "C_LANESCOLLAPSED" ^.
• ReaScript: fix setting of FX param.X.plink.effect
• ReaSurroundPan: optimize initialization process
• Super8: fix possible audio errors when recording very long loops
• Theme: fix squashed record arm buttons
• Track groups: split items on grouped tracks if most of the item is within the bounds of the selected item ^{. .}
• Track panels: correct multichannel input label/tooltip ^.
• Track panels: fix hidpi text size for lane labels and TCP embedded FX labels ^.
• Track templates: warn if FX are offline on import ^.
• Video: fix video processor editor mousewheel issue on macOS
• Visual spacers: improve behavior when adjusting track height and visual spacer height has been set to a high value ^.
• Visual spacers: prevent envelope lane height affecting spacer size when spacer size has been customized to a large value
• VST: fix undo point addition for some plug-ins when changing parameters via TCP controls/API ^.

REAPER v7.0 - October 16, 2023
Several People Are Typing
Downloads:

Windows (15MB installer)
Windows x64 (15MB installer)
macOS Intel (20MB DMG)
macOS 64-bit Intel (22MB DMG)
macOS Universal (26MB DMG)
Linux x86_64 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux i686 (12MB .tar.xz)
Linux armv7l (11MB .tar.xz)
Linux aarch64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

• Actions: add action to color all takes that share the same source media with the same color
• Actions: add action to select all media items that use the same source media
• Actions: add action to paste tracks/items at mouse position
• Actions: prevent healing an unlooped item with a copy of itself ^.
• Actions: actions to move items up/down/top/bottom will act on razor edit areas, if any exist
• Actions: add actions to apply first track or take FX to items (can be used to render ARA FX)
• Actions Window: hide actions like 'set default mouse modifier for [context] to [action]' from actions list, instead use ReaScript SetMouseModifier('context_name', keycombo, 'action_name'), deprecated actions will still work though
• Actions Window: add meta-actions to allow running (some) actions in background project tab contexts
• Actions Window: allow setting a parameter value for keys bound to MIDI CC/mousewheel actions
• Actions Window: show custom action toggle state as enabled/disabled if all component actions that report a toggle state are enabled/disabled ^.
• Actions Window: store descriptive comments about shortcuts in ReaperKeyMap/reaper-kb.ini
• Actions Window: add 'Options' button to action window
• Actions Window: add menu items to import, export, reset, clear keyboard shortcuts for the current section
• API/ReaScript: support ShowConsoleMsg() from multiple threads
• API/ReaScript: add actions to toggle console window visiblity, clear console window; console window log persists when closing/reopening window
• API/ReaScript: add CleanItemLanes(), to recalculate fixed lane arrangement and remove unused lanes at bottom of track after moving or editing media items
• API/ReaScript: add FX_GetNamedConfigParm(container_count) for getting number of FX in container
• API/ReaScript: TrackFX_/TakeFX_ APIs can access container and sub-container FX via documented addressing scheme
• API/ReaScript: preserve FXID when cutting/pasting FX, saving/loading RfxChain
• API/ReaScript: add EnumInstalledFX()
• API/ReaScript: add GetTouchedOrFocusedFX(), support addressing FX containers, deprecate GetFocusedFX2() and GetLastTouchedFX()
• API/ReaScript: add MIDIEditorFlagsForTrack(), to get/set pitchwheel range and snap settings
• API/ReaScript: add set/getNamedConfigParm container_map.add, param.X.container_map.*
• API/ReaScript: add support for GetSetMediaTrackInfo() I_NUMFIXEDLANES, I_LANESCOLLAPSED, C_LANEPLAYS, I_SPACER
• API/ReaScript: add support for GetSetMediaItemInfo() I_FIXEDLANE, B_FIXEDLANE_HIDDEN
• API/ReaScript: much faster API validation for takes and envelopes ^.
• API/ReaScript: fix gfx.drawstr() on multiline content drawing with negative Y offset ^.
• API/ReaScript: GetTrackFromPoint() also returns the fixed lane under the mouse, if applicable
• API/ReaScript: gfx.setcursor() can specify named theme cursors without specifying numeric ID
• API/ReaScript: support using full (unlocalized) action description in Get/SetMouseModifier(), example: SetMouseModifier('Media item left drag', 0, 'Move item')
• API/ReaScript: update from Lua 5.3.5 to Lua 5.4.6 (may affect existing ReaScripts) ^.
• API/ReaScript: update TakeFX/TrackFX_Get/SetPinMappings() to support more than 64 mappings
• API/ReaScript: add GetSetTrackGroupMembership() support for MEDIA_EDIT_LEAD, MEDIA_EDIT_FOLLOW
• ARA: support pooling edits by source media, so edits can automatically affect all media items that share the same source media
• ARA: support pooling or not pooling ARA edits by default (old projects will always load with edits unpooled)
• ARA: pooled edits will not be preserved when loading a project created with REAPER 7+ into an older version of REAPER (the old version will show a 'project token not recognized: ARAMOD' warning)
• ARA: display pooled edit button for media items that share ARA edits (similar to pooled MIDI behavior)
• ARA: list analyzed media files and pooled/unpooled count in FX + menu
• ARA: add actions to select media items with pooled ARA edits, remove items from edit pool, return items to edit pool
• ARA: improve stability of ARA edits when editing media items (splits, copies, cut/paste, etc)
• ARA: fix possible hang when ARA plugin analyzes media with negative start-in-source offset
• Audio: support up to 128 channels per track, 128 channels of I/O per plug-in
• Audio: allow mapping ReaRoute/loopback devices as regular channels
• Backups: add configuration for path to auto-save unsaved projects
• Backups: default to saving up to 50 timestamped projects in Backups directory for new users
• Backups: optionally save timestamped backup projects to Backups directory, auto-saved projects to AutoSaves directory
• Backups: optionally keep last X copies or X unique days of copies of timestamped backups
• Batch Converter: allow user-entered file extension if it is compatible with the format (.m4v for .mp4, etc)
• Batch Converter: correct extension handling when option enabled to overwrite source files
• CLAP Plugins: automatically scan reaper_resource_path/UserPlugins/FX for .clap plug-ins
• CLAP Plugins: fix recording automation in touch mode ^.
• Click Source: fix glitch at start of playback with take FX that use PDC ^.
• Color Theme: new Default 7.0 theme
• Color Theme: add preference/theme element for small themed indicator on selected media items
• Color Theme: add theme elements for various fixed lane display features (buttons, text, etc)
• Defaults: display media item volume knob, FX button, mute button by default
• Defaults: enable preference to record media, copy imported media to project media directory by default
• Defaults: MIDI editor defaults to one editor per project
• Defaults: default to OpenGL for video output
• Defaults: video media defaults to low-resolution audio peaks, for improved responsiveness
• Defaults: disable automatic fadein/fadeout for imported media by default
• Defaults: disable 'right-click deletes notes' MIDI editor preference by default
• Defaults: mouse-drag on crossfade intersection moves the split point left/right by default, rather than adjusting fade curves
• Defaults: use project peaks directory by default
• Defaults: ReaComp defaults to 4:1 compression ratio
• Defaults: ReaEQ adds default HPF band 5 (disabled by default)
• Defaults: ReaEQ changes default bandwidth for low/high shelf
• Defaults: built-in sliders respond to mouse click anywhere in the slider window, not just within the thumb image ^.
• Dynamic Split: properly handle leading/trailing pad when splitting grouped tracks ^.
• FX: support processing multiple plug-ins in parallel
• FX: support FX containers, sub-chains of FX with configurable input/output/processing channel sizes, configurable parameter mappings
• FX: Containers support configurable channel feedback
• FX: Containers support internal modulation of parameters, using parent modulation/automation as baseline for any container-local modulation
• FX: flush plug-in buffers when bypassing VST or CLAP plugins
• FX: always run track/track FX while playback is stopped, if the UI is visible ^.
• FX: always run input FX if the UI is visible
• FX: optionally run FX when muted if the UI is visible
• FX: fix many last-touched-parameter actions to work with per-take, input FX
• FX: show more descriptive names for track/take channels in pin connector dialog
• FX: support parameter modulation for input FX, monitor FX
• FX Oversampling: add preference to auto-disable oversampling for record arm-affected tracks
• FX Oversampling: avoid subsample delays in signal when delay compensating ^.
• FX Oversampling: fix slight errors in passthrough MIDI timing when using per-instance oversampling and latency compensation
• FX Oversampling: improve accuracy of timing information passed to plug-ins when using chain oversampling
• FX Sidechain: allow drag/drop sidechain creation to FX in containers, floating windows
• FX Sidechain: when creating sidechain via drag/drop to FX, always add/route to new track channels, reconfigure pin mappings for sidechain if FX has 4 inputs
• Grouping: add option (enabled by default) for track media item grouping to affect only items that start and end at the same time (rather than any enclosed media item)
• Grouping: improve behavior when splitting media items on grouped tracks ^.
• JSFX: add ext_gr_meter to support reporting gain reduction to the host (set to non-positive values in @init and @block)
• JSFX: make output metering pre-wet/dry/delta-solo
• JSFX: support plug-in defined compile-time configuration parameters
• JSFX/ReaScript/Video: % (modulus) operator supports 64-bit values on arm64 ^.
• Keyboard: add multiple alternate main keyboard sections, add actions to switch between them persistently or momentarily
• Lanes/Comping: support fixed-lane tracks, to arrange media items in fixed lanes
• Lanes/Comping: support setting individual lanes to play back or not play back
• Lanes/Comping: support automatically recording overlapping media to separate lanes, either layered (multiple lanes play back at once) or not (only the last recorded lane plays back)
• Lanes/Comping: v6 option for overlapping recording to create new media items is replaced by option to add lanes; playback behavior is identical to v6
• Lanes/Comping: support minimizing, maximizing, or collapsing track lanes
• Lanes/Comping: support adding lanes by dragging media to a hashed 'parking area', automatically removing empty lanes
• Lanes/Comping: support naming individual lanes, resizing lane name area
• Lanes/Comping: support reordering fixed lanes by dragging lane buttons up/down
• Lanes/Comping: support targeting a specific lane or free item position when pasting media items and razor edits
• Lanes/Comping: add many actions to support editing, manipulating, playing back, comping, and coloring items in fixed lanes
• Lanes/Comping: add mouse modifier contexts for fixed lane header buttons, fixed lane comp areas (including click/double-click contexts)
• Lanes/Comping: add many theme elements for fixed lane and comp area display
• Lanes/Comping: support recording into specific lanes or new lanes
• Lanes/Comping: add actions to explode items in lanes to tracks, implode items on tracks to lanes, optionally creating comp areas
• Lanes/Comping: existing actions to switch active take (T/shift-T by default) will switch the comp area under the mouse up or down as well
• Lanes/Comping: add import option to add multiple media on fixed lanes on a single track
• Lanes/Comping: tracks that are grouped for media/razor edits are also grouped for lane actions and edits
• Lanes/Comping: when exiting fixed lane view, lanes that are not playing are hidden; hidden lanes are restored when re-entering fixed lane view
• Lanes/Comping: create a comping lane by double-clicking or right-clicking the lane button, or clicking the comping button on a razor edit, or using arrange view mouse modifiers
• Lanes/Comping: while comping, mouse-drag in source lanes to create comp areas; comped media is copied to the comping lane
• Lanes/Comping: comp areas create editable copies of source media
• Lanes/Comping: mouse modifiers for comp areas include behaviors to change comp area source lane, limit comp areas to media item edges, move media items along with comp areas, attach comp area edges to adjacent comp area edges, create time selection including pre-roll/post-roll for previewing
• Lanes/Comping: while comping, edits to media item edges/fades/crossfades in comping lane will also affect comp areas (comp areas fades/crossfades can be individually edited this way)
• Lanes/Comping: while comping, edits that cause comping-lane media to go out of sync with source-lane media will display a re-comp button on the comping lane media
• Lanes/Comping: clicking re-comp button will copy edited media to a new source lane, to use as an alternative edit along with existing source media
• Lanes/Comping: optionally support editing source media while comping (edits immediately affect the comping lane)
• Lanes/Comping: add options to automatically create comp areas for new recording while comping
• Lanes/Comping: ensure that new recording is in the same lane for all grouped tracks ^.
• Lanes/Comping: when recording with time selection auto-punch into a new lane, optionally add the entire new recording, but comp only within the time selection ^.
• License: display license valid-through version in About/Purchase window
• Loopback: add audio loopback support (Preferences/Audio) for up to 256 channels
• Loopback: when recording from loopback MIDI/audio channels, do not compensate audio device latency
• macOS: improve menu item modifier descriptions for various menus
• macOS: optionally display last user-run action in REAPER title bar
• Media Items: allow mouse editing take markers by clicking anywhere within the text, as well as on the marker itself
• Media Items: avoid snapping to a grid point that is in a different direction from the mouse move
• Media Items: do not autoscroll when adjusting media item contents ^.
• Media Items: improve interactions between auto-crossfade project setting and crossfade preferences when trimming content behind media item edits
• Media Items: limit overlap and crossfade when splitting at time selection or razor edit ^.
• Media Items: improve multiple selection behavior when editing crossfade or shared media item edges ^.
• Media Items: limit crossfade edits consistently when moving left or right ^.
• Media Items: show tooltip when hovering over pooled MIDI button
• Media Items: store fade-in/fade-out length with greater precision in project files
• Media Items: support healing items even if one or both contains empty takes
• Media Items: support healing splits even if items do not have the same active take lane
• Media Items: when option enabled to offset overlapping media items vertically, arrange media items that start at the same time in the order they were created ^.
• Metadata: support multi-line render metadata (right-click value cell to open multi-line editor) ^.
• Metadata: support unsynchronized lyrics metadata via ID3 and VORBIS tags
• Metadata: cancel metadata edit entry box when user scrolls metadata list
• Metadata: attempt to parse XMP markers for terse display in media source properties dialog
• Meters: add per-track option to display gain reduction from VST or JSFX plug-ins that report gain reduction to the host
• Meters: add gain reduction metering preferences in Appearance/Track Control Panels
• MIDI: support up to 128 MIDI buses per track
• MIDI: add action to send explicit note-off messages for every channel/pitch combination to every MIDI output and plugin
• MIDI: improve MIDI device preferences pane
• MIDI: do not automatically re-color MIDI media items when doing pooled copy
• MIDI Devices: support up to 128 input/output devices
• MIDI Devices: add ability to create multiple native MIDI loopback devices (single audio block delay)
• MIDI Devices: allow ignoring devices to prevent them from using up device ID space
• MIDI Devices: add per-device option to not warn when unable to open device
• MIDI Editor: add option for editor selection to follow track selection in arrange view
• MIDI Editor: add option to set the channel for new events when selecting a single note or CC event (improves MPE editing support)
• MIDI Editor: support vertical zoom/scroll in CC lanes
• MIDI Editor: support pitchwheel lane semitone range, snap-to-semitone
• MIDI Editor: improve support for renaming CC lanes
• MIDI Editor: add option to prevent mouse edits of single CC events from moving past other CC events
• MIDI Editor: add preference to display empty space at top/bottom of CC lanes
• MIDI Editor: display time/value in CC lanes
• MIDI Editor: improve options to allow/disallow CC curve shapes in sustain, bank, LSB lanes
• MIDI Editor: fix deselecting CC events when clicking lane outside envelope, when preference enabled to draw/edit immediately on mouse click
• MIDI Editor: if 'show only events that pass filter' disabled, allow setting any channel for new events ^.
• MIDI Editor: remove snap-to-center for mouse edits in CC lanes (double-click a value to center it)
• MIDI Editor: when switching active MIDI item, adjust vertical scroll if all notes would be offscreen
• MIDI Editor: when using one editor per project or per track, reopen editor at the same screen location for all MIDI items that share the editor
• MIDI Quantize: automatically quantize media content start position to PPQ when quantizing MIDI ^.
• MIDI Quantize: reset quantization for unselected notes when switching from 'all notes' to 'selected notes' in quantize dialog
• MIDI Quantize: when creating new items, always snap media item position to PPQ ^.
• MIDI Quantize: improve behavior of no-chase playback modes to handle media items with non-quantized starting positions ^.
• Mouse Modifiers: add multiple arrange view mouse modifier override sections, to define new behaviors when left-mouse-dragging in arrange view
• Mouse Modifiers: set override A to marquee selection behaviors, override B to razor edit behaviors, override C to comping behaviors, override D to time selection behaviors by default (all are fully customizable though)
• Mouse Modifiers: add actions, toolbar buttons to activate/momentarily activate/toggle/clear mouse modifier overrides
• Mouse Modifiers: add menu action to export modifiers for the current context as a ReaScript ^.
• Mouse Modifiers: support user-defined custom toolbar button tooltip for arrange view override contexts
• Multiproject: if =REF markers specified in both projects, use as a manual synchronization point
• Multiproject: use project time offsets to synchronize video and playback between project tabs
• Pitch Shift/Timestretch: add multi-mono and multi-stereo options for applicable algorithms
• Pitch Shift/Timestretch: support more than 48 channels with Elastique ^.
• Preferences: add new Envelope Colors preferences page, support custom envelope colors based on envelope name
• Preferences: add new Project/Backups preferences page
• Preferences: add new Item Fade Defaults, Item Loop Defaults preferences pages
• Preferences: add new ARA preferences page
• Preferences: add new Scrub/Jog preferences page
• Preferences: add new Zoom/Scroll preferences page
• Preferences: add button to Preferences/Project to open project settings dialog
• Preferences: add preference for envelope lane height as a percentage of track height, when zooming vertically (default 50%)
• Preferences: add preference for adjusting scrub/jog volume gain
• Preferences: add preferences for default fixed lane track configuration (big/small lanes, etc)
• Preferences: add preferences for crossfade behavior for various contexts (splitting, reording, etc)
• Preferences: add preferences for track meter display defaults
• Preferences: remember last selected mouse modifier context when closing/restarting REAPER
• Project: changing autocrossfade or overlapping-recording options also sets default setting for new projects
• Project: use HMSF if set as a secondary project time unit
• Project: show play/record indicators for background tabs
• Project: add actions to reorder project tabs, actions to switch to specific or previously-selected tabs
• Raw PCM Media: add button to source properties to reload media after editing .rsrc sidecar file
• Razor Edit: copy selected part of fade-in/fade-out if any part of the fade is included in the razor edit
• Recording: display loop counter during recording
• Recording: optionally apply autocrossfade when new recording overlaps existing items and adding takes ^.
• Recording: optionally apply autocrossfade when loop-punch recording and adding takes ^.
• Recording: fix aligning takes when recording pass starts in the middle of a looped section ^.
• Recording: when loop recording, do not split recorded media even if a full loop pass was not recorded
• Render: inform user when saved render format is not available
• Render: fix persistence of preference to embed XMP markers ^.
• Render: respect preference to close render window when done, even when normalizing (but leave the window open when dry run rendering regardless of the preference)
• Render: support forcing mono/stereo/multichannel render for master mix via region render matrix
• Render: support rendering raw PCM (.sd2), including sidecar definition file
• Render: support marker/region wildcards consisting of separated name=value pairs using $marker(name)[separator] and $region(name)[separator] (see wildcard help)
• RX2: fix memory leak when exploding items
• Samplerate Conversion: update r8brain-free to v6.3
• Super8: support 1-48 channels (default 8)
• Takes: add actions to mark previous recording pass for deletion, delete takes that are marked for deletion
• Takes: avoid potential crash when editing take markers and media item source file is not available
• Tempo/Time Signature: inserting time at start of project uses initial tempo marker rather than project tempo setting ^.
• Tempo/Time Signature: if project timebase for tempo/time signature envelope is set to beats, action to insert time will preserve existing tempo/time signature changes ^.
• Toolbars: support optional animation or blinking for toolbar buttons
• Toolbars: animate ripple-edit, mouse modifier override toolbar buttons by default
• Toolbars: support up to 32 main toolbars, 16 MIDI toolbars
• Track Folders: add preference to hide tracks in a folder when the folder is fully collapsed
• Track Folders: add option for track folder collapse button to cycle child track heights between various combinations of normal-sized, small, collapsed, and hidden
• Track Folders: add action to show/hide children of selected folder tracks
• Track Folders: consistently refer to collapsed folders as 'collapsed' rather than 'compacted'
• Track Folders: add actions, menu items to move tracks to new or existing folder track
• Track Folders: gray out folder tracks in track context menu if all selected tracks are already within that folder
• Track Folders: when inserting tracks after a folder whose children are all hidden, insert after children
• Track Spacers: add support for customizable spacers between tracks
• Track Spacers: display track spacers in mixer when mixer tracks are displayed in the same order as TCP
• Track Spacers: when multiple contiguous tracks are selected, spacers will be added at the start and end of the set
• Track Spacers: support moving/copying track spacers with mouse, dragging tracks to before/after/within spacers
• Transport: add support for Measures.Beats as secondary time unit ^.
• Transport: when parsing user-input time, always treat 8-digit numbers as hhmmssff
• Video: add option to disable video per-media-item
• Video: optionally display video from background projects if current project lacks video ^.
• Video: support project setting for YUV preview/conversion gamut: BT.601 (previous versions), BT.709, BT.2020
• Video: add preference to use standard (accessible) OS editing controls for video code
• WALTER: themes can create custom controls by using 'custom tcp.custom.xyz [label] [action ID] [accessibility description] [button_image_name]' in layouts
• WALTER: custom controls can be text fields or buttons, may support .font, .color, .margin
• WALTER: add various scalars/elements/images
• WALTER: add warnings, enable via 'warnings all' or 'warnings pedantic' line (only supported when loading a non-zipped theme)
• Web Control Surface: reduce web server latency
• Windows: do not try to style-match tab-child windows ^.
• Windows: update manifest to declare UAC configuration and compatibility for new Windows 8+ features (improves support for some plug-ins)
• Zoom/Scroll: consistently support small control device moves, such as from a trackpad or trackball
• Zoom/Scroll: map shift+alt+mousewheel to 'scroll vertically one page' by default
• Zoom/Scroll: rename actions to scroll horizontally/vertically to match behavior (scrolling forward vs reversed)
• Zoom/Scroll: do not change envelope height when resizing tracks via mouse drag
• Zoom/Scroll: support vertical scroll step as percentage of track height or percentage of arrange view height
• Zoom/Scroll: add actions to toggle track zoom height to default; cycle track zoom height between minimum, default, and maximum
• Zoom/Scroll: add actions to toggle or cycle track zoom to maximum, even if maximum is not 100% of arrange view height
• Zoom/Scroll: if maximum vertical zoom preference is 100% or less, keep the focused track entirely onscreen while zooming
• Zoom/Scroll: if track height is greater than screen height, mousewheel scroll on TCP scrolls by screen height
• Zoom/Scroll: allow mouse-centered vertical zoom to target the interior of a track