REAPER 6.01: The Aristocrats Released
If you look for a powerful and best-priced DAW take a look at Reaper. Too many composers, Reaper is already the most value for the money DAW. Now with the added features, it becomes a big challenger for the DAWs available in the market. Reaper is priced at an unseen low price point. Updates are included for free when a purchase for a longer period.
The upgrade to Version 6 is free to the owners of Reaper 5.
What is new in Reaper 6
- Accessibility: fix Windows IAccessible support for TCP/MCP
- Accessibility: fix alt-key to access menus/close app from TCP/MCP
- Accessibility: add action to view routing and I/O for master track
- Arrange: optimize drawing of offline/forced offline text on small items •
- MIDI editor: fix macOS Metal Retina rendering glitch when nav lane is visible and resized
- MIDI editor: support CC envelopes for CC64 •
- MIDI playback: fix CC interpolation in certain cases •
- Media items: fix issues with very fast vertical mouse-moves of items on multiple tracks
- Mixer: fix mouse-away detection •
- Mixer: fix very-large-size display bug •
- ReaScript IDE: add checkbox to disable state watchlist
- ReaScript IDE: do not run watch window continuously after script has stopped running
- ReaScript IDE: reduce watch update frequency
- ReaScript: support get/setting media item auto-stretch timebase
- ReaSurround: improve multimonitor HiDPI issues on Windows
- ReaVerb: enable ZL/LL by default for better low-latency performance
- Theme: fix slight incorrect meter expansion
- Tooltips: improve item volume tooltip at very low values •
MIDI editor
- display and edit CC/velocity as dots and lines, CCs as linear and curved envelopes, similar to track envelopes
- add note-type buttons to default toolbar
- add option to display note length in velocity lane
- add option to move bank/program change events with notes
- add preference to automatically reduce CC events when drawing
- combine note properties and event properties into one modeless dialog
- add mouse modifiers to reset CC/velocity to default values
- make default CC event and CC lane mouse modifiers more like default envelope behaviors
- repopulate raw MIDI data display window when switching active media item
Theming
- new Default 6.0 theme with theme adjuster script allowing for extensive customization of the new default theme
- layout DPI translation for HiDPI/Retina displays
- apply main window size area theme element only on mouseover
- improve theme rendering appearance when using custom UI scaling
- apply advanced preference UI scaling changes immediately
- replace tcp.dragdropchild with tcp.dragdropinfo [indent_sibling_track indent_child_track]
- add additional 8 WALTER font slots
- add support for midi_score_colormap, in addition to midi_note_colormap
Media items
- add new “Beats (auto-stretch at tempo changes)” timebase
- add action to add stretch markers at project tempo changes
- add action to recalculate automatic stretch markers at project tempo changes
- add action to convert embedded source media transient information to transient guides
- optionally create transient guides on import for media with embedded transient information
- support calculating playback rate from user-supplied tempo or length in beats
- when copy/pasting items with stretch markers, preserve the original play rate
ReaScript
- add MIDI_GetCCShape, MIDI_SetCCShape
- add support for CC shapes to MIDI_Get(Set)AllEvts
- add support for setting track playback offset value and attributes
- add support for user-defined note and track notation data that is not displayed
- fix setting MIDI meta-messages via API
- add reduce_open_files() utility function for users running up against open file handle limitations
FX
- allow embedding some plug-in UIs into track and mixer control panels
- support embedding UIs for ReaEQ, ReaXComp, ReaComp, ReaSurround, and graphical JSFX
- add preference to display FX list on right side of FX chain window
- add preference to display add/delete buttons above list in FX chain window
macOS
- Retina display arrange, ruler, MIDI editor, etc
- use Metal display output on 10.11+ for various windows
- add options in Preferences/General/Advanced to disable Retina support, disable Retina for non-Retina theme elements
- support REX files on macOS Catalina
- work around appearance issues when user forces dark mode rendering for app (requires Metal to be enabled) •
Render
- include all options in “options and format” render presets
- optionally embed transient information into WAV or AIFF files
- support embedding tempo into AIFF files
- support rendering only selected regions in an existing region render matrix •
- when enabled, embed exact tempo of rendered item/time
Defaults
- enable Live FX multiprocessing by default
- enable track record monitoring on new tracks by default
- set volume envelopes to fader scaling by default
Dynamic split
- add preset support
- overhaul and improvements to algorithm and gate handling
- retain settings after canceling the window
Media import
- properly adjust length of imported media with embedded tempo when crossing project tempo changes
- support adjusting media based on tempo suggested by filename
Mouse modifiers
- add double-click behaviors to reset CC value, curvature, edit properties
- add preference to draw/edit CC events immediately on mouse click
Multiprocessing
- auto-detect up to 128 threads
- increase anticipative FX hard limit to 128 threads, live FX hard limit to 64 threads
- remove old 4.x scheduler mode, non-event synchronization modes
Performance
- improve performance and reduce system resource consumption with large track counts
- add option in disk settings to periodically close excess open files
- add option to read peaks files under a certain size completely to RAM (to reduce open file count)
Resampling
- added SSE2-optimized sinc calculation (from Theo Niessink)
- optimize and greatly improve quality of resampling for conversion between common rates
Toolbars
- actions to switch last focused toolbar will default to switching main toolbar
- improve HiDPI/Retina support (toolbar_icons/ can have 150/ and 200/ subdirs)
Tracks
- support positive or negative playback time offset without affecting PDC
- add action to bypass track playback offset
- add user preference for max MIDI playback speed to catch up to negative track playback offset
Windows
- HiDPI awareness and display improvements (auto-rescale more UI when running HiDPI aware)
- improve appearance of docker, ReaPlugs, and other windows when resizing
Import
- handle WAV and AIFF (Apple Loops) files containing transient information similarly to REX files
Main window
- support positioning track control panels on right side of arrange
Menus
- very lightly refresh main file/edit/view/insert menus
Modal windows
- remember window positions (configurable option in preferences/general/advanced to tweak behavior)
Notation editor
- support customized staff and note context menus
ReaFIR
- add context menu mode configuration
REX
- add option to ignore all embedded slice and tempo information
Routing
- add track wiring view
VST3
- support plugins that export MIDI note names
