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 3.3 :
- 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 3.31 :
- Action: move cursor left/right to nearest media item edge
- Action window: can be docked
- Action window: options to preserve action filter, show/hide command IDs
- Arrange view: themeable divider lines between tracks and between envelope lanes
- Command line: fixed -renderproject option with some old projects
- Envelope lanes: optional horizontal grid lines
- Glue: fixed unnecessary creation of empty audio file when gluing muted MIDI items
- Grouping: support select-all-grouped preference in marquee selection
- MIDI items: editing item edges resizes source contents for unlooped in-project MIDI items
- MIDI editor: optional horizontal grid lines in CC lanes
- MIDI editor: fixes for note move/resize actions when notes hit other notes or the end of the item
- MIDI overdub loop recording: avoid extending items past the end of the loop
- MIDI playback: avoid double note-on when time signature changes result in incomplete measures
- Missing files dialog: better behavior when ignoring missed files
- Preferences: split peaks/waveforms and meters appearance preferences into their own pages
- ReaNINJAM: better paths for configuration files, session files (unprivileged user support)
- ReaStream: fixed multi-instance bug with MIDI receive
- ReaScript: safer handling of GetSetObjectState when called from audio threads
- Render: autosave on render causes saved project to be loaded by default on next run
- Render: Windows 7 taskbar progress support while rendering
- Trim behind items: preserve grouping of split items
- VST: avoid preset list flashing in some plugins
- x64: fixed JS issues (bad invsqrt, failure when using large amounts of RAM)
