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Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NY Posts: 11,086

4.0 whatsnew





4.0 headline changes:





Dockers and toolbars Freely dockable in main window or floatable (up to 16 separate dockers/toolbars)

Drag tabs from a docker to rearrange tabs, create a new docker in another location, or float windows

Create, customize, and freely dock or float toolbars for different uses Envelope editing Support for copying envelope points with the mouse

Groups of selected points act like contiguous items when moving or copying

Shift+control+drag on envelope segment (customizable) edits the envelope level within the time selection

Media Explorer preview time selection Select a portion of a media file to insert into a project

Optionally loop and/or stretch the selected portion to fit the destination area and tempo

Scroll and zoom the media peaks preview

Control+alt drag the time selection to render a new cropped file to REAPER, the desktop, or a folder

Control+alt drag the time selection to sampler plugins or other applications that support drag/drop

Media Item Properties dialog Item/Take Properties dialog stays open while you work elsewhere, follows changes in selected items

Pitch adjust and playrate fields accept values (such as "1.004") or simple operations (such as "x2")

MIDI editing Set user-definable scales and chords in the MIDI editor for drawing and editing notes

Using mouse modifiers, copy/duplicate/paste actions can create pooled (ghosted) in-project MIDI source data

Editing any pooled MIDI media item affects all media items that share the same pooled data

Un-pool shared MIDI by gluing the media item or via MIDI source properties dialog

MIDI filter improvements when displaying multiple media items in the same editor

Many new mouse modifier behaviors to paint notes and chords, edit arpeggios, etc

Mouse modifier customization Customize mouse behavior when using keyboard modifiers in 40 different contexts

In many contexts, mouse click and mouse drag can be customized separately

Assign different behaviors to the mouse when over the top or bottom half of a media item

Assign any action (including custom actions) to mouse click or double-click in most contexts

Existing/legacy mouse preferences are preserved, but user changes to mousemap settings will override

Actions to reassign default mouse action for any context

Lots of customizable choices of behavior, for example : Move/copy just the selected area of media items, or all selected media items

Edit edges/fades for all selected items, or just those whose edges line up

Adjust media item volume or pitch

Move envelope points or MIDI notes/CC just horizontally or vertically

Assign marquee selection to left-click

Assign hand-drag-scroll to right-click

Many other customizable behaviors (50 behaviors just for media items) Multichannel track monitoring/input recording/routing Allow choosing greater than 2 channels of input (inputs must be sequential, though)

Multichannel track meters

Freely route any number of track channels to other tracks, hardware outputs

Project Bay Manage, preview, search, replace project source media, media items, and FX

Manage media item groups and take comps for the project

Save/load project bay contents to create working sets of source media/FX for different purposes

Store sets of edited media items (including fades, stretch, pitch shift, etc) to use in any project

Media and FX+preset combinations can be stored, inserted, and switched in the project

ReaSurround: multi-channel surround panner with support for any number of input channels and speakers Freely position input sources and speakers in 3D space

Configurable per-channel diffusion (treat input source audio as a shaped area rather than a point)

Drag track IO button to ReaSurround to add new input sources

Render and batch-convert improvements Support for rendering project tracks and time regions to separate folders and files

Customizable wildcards provide great flexibility in naming batches of rendered/converted files

Save render presets for workflow efficiency

Take lanes and comping Take lanes remain aligned by recording pass, creating empty lanes as needed (optional)

Each recording pass gets its own take lane, even when recording overlaps existing items

Recording no longer splits existing media items into different numbers of take lanes

Save/load named comps (sets of takes from multiple media items)

A/B or cycle through saved comps to audition/compare

Theme layout support (WALTER) Per-track TCP/MCP layout support

Screensets support saving/restoring layouts

Old themes use default layouts available in Plugins/default_layouts.txt

New themes can define their own layouts

Layouts can be switched via menu, screensets/layouts dialog, or customizable actions

See: http://www-dev.reaper.fm/sdk/walter/walter.php

Time selection Default copy/cut actions respect time selection if there is one (including leading/trailing space)

Using mouse modifiers, copy/move behaviors can respect time selection if there is one

Editing behavior can be customized separately for media items, envelope points, MIDI editing

Track input FX chain support FX in the input FX chain only run when record armed, and only affect the signal coming in

Input MIDI or audio, and set recording to be MIDI or audio independent of the input format

Improved pan support Track stereo width controls and envelopes

Configurable track pan modes: balance, stereo pan (L/R + width), dual pan, and classic (3.x) balance

Transient detection and Dynamic Split improvements Separate threshold and sensitivity settings and other options

Video Many performance improvements, support for sequencing still images

Volume faders New default hardware-emulation fader taper

4.0 sub-headline changes: Always-on-top (pin) button for most windows, including FX windows

for most windows, including FX windows Automute safety feature is a global setting (rather than per-project), enabled by default

is a global setting (rather than per-project), enabled by default Crossfades: separate default settings for crossfade shapes, crossfade-on-split length

separate default settings for crossfade shapes, crossfade-on-split length DDP export support (thanks to Sergej Marsnjak)

(thanks to Sergej Marsnjak) Envelopes: configurable transition time for automatically created edge points Allows adjusting the ramp time when editing envelope segments

configurable transition time for automatically created edge points FX: combined REAPER presets and VST patches/AU presets in a single dropdown

combined REAPER presets and VST patches/AU presets in a single dropdown FX: user can save a preset as default, to be automatically set when inserting the FX

user can save a preset as default, to be automatically set when inserting the FX FX browser: option to display/change default preset without opening the FX

option to display/change default preset without opening the FX FX sidechains are draggable Drag track IO button to a plugin window to add destination track channels 3+4 and create a send

Installer (Windows): added "portable install" checkbox and more command line options "Portable install" will install REAPER with no icons, registry keys, or uninstaller

User preferences and settings for portable installs are kept separate

added "portable install" checkbox and more command line options Live FX multiprocessing now works more effectively when tracks are in folders

now works more effectively when tracks are in folders Media item fade drawing improvements , options to prevent editing fade-in/fade-out when the item is small

, options to prevent editing fade-in/fade-out when the item is small Media item selection sets can be named/saved/loaded using the screensets dialog

can be named/saved/loaded using the screensets dialog MIDI input/output: support for up to 62/64 separate input and output devices

support for up to 62/64 separate input and output devices Multichannel item improvements: allow choosing any mono/stereo pair from multichannel items

allow choosing any mono/stereo pair from multichannel items ReaVerb: huge realtime performance improvements

huge realtime performance improvements Sample rate conversion: improved sub-sample accuracy when used with project sample rate snap

improved sub-sample accuracy when used with project sample rate snap Sample rate snap (enable in the snap settings dialog), improved sample-level display

(enable in the snap settings dialog), improved sample-level display Scale finder dialog: identify scales and chords based on input notes

identify scales and chords based on input notes Splash screen: displays when unloading projects (useful for status), other improvements

displays when unloading projects (useful for status), other improvements Time selection is editable in MIDI editor

is editable in MIDI editor Track Manager: basic report-style dialog to manage track visibility and selection

basic report-style dialog to manage track visibility and selection Track and send faders can be linked to MIDI volume/pan

can be linked to MIDI volume/pan Unlooped media item editing: dragging either edge of an item pads with silence

dragging either edge of an item pads with silence Video playback CPU/RAM/performance improvements and fixes

improvements and fixes VoiceOver improvements for OSX (improves accessibility for visually impaired users)

(improves accessibility for visually impaired users) WASAPI audio support (Windows), improvements to WDM/MME/DirectSound output modes We are still expecting at least another month of beta bugfixes, but the final changelog for 4.0 will probably look a lot like this. There are many medium and small fixes that aren't in this list, because it's already over 100 lines. Last edited by schwa; 05-26-2011 at 08:31 AM . Reason: pure insubordination