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 3.66 :
• MIDI editor:
- action to reverse events also reverses CC, works in event list view
- actions that target a CC lane will target the top lane if no CC lane has focus
- advance edit cursor correctly after paste preserving position in measure
- better blink cursor appearance
- clicking to the left of a CC lane will set focus to that lane without deselecting notes/CC
- fixed CC events on one channel erasing events on other channels when moving CC with notes
- fixed splitting notes in looped MIDI items
- fixed step input actions when inserting X semitones below the current note
- immediately refresh event list when correcting overlapping notes/CC
- option to disable single-click selecting CC events
- paste preserving position in measure will not paste duplicates
- quantize, humanize, event properties, and filter windows stay on top of the editor
- swing grid support
- swing grid strength is set/edited by dragging handles on the upbeat grid lines [demo]
- text box for manual entry of swing strength
- when correcting overlapping notes, also correct CC events at the same time/channel
- when correcting overlapping notes/CC, always preserve the selected note/CC
- see full list
here
