Cockos REAPER v6.36 [WIN & MACOS]

REAPER 6 is a powerful but sensible Windows application that lets you record, arrange, edit, and render multi-track waveform audio. It provides an extensive set of features, but is a very small and lightweight application (the installer is less than 1 megabyte, and includes many effects and a sample project). REAPER supports ASIO, Kernel Streaming, WaveOut, and DirectSound for playback and recording.

It reads WAV, OGG, and MP3 files, and records WAV files. You can arrange any number of items in any number of tracks and use audio processing plug-ins (DirectX and Jesusonic). REAPER 5 also supports volume, pan controls and envelopes per track, multi-layer undo/redo, and user creatable color themes.

Basic features:

Portable – supports running from USB keys or other removable media
64 bit audio engine
Excellent low-latency performance
Multiprocessor capable
Direct multi-track recording to many formats including WAV/BWF/W64, AIFF, WavPack, FLAC, OGG, and MIDI.
Extremely flexible routing
Fast, tool-less editing
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 2MB

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

v6.36 -Changelog:

+ Actions list: improve the naming of various selection related actions
+ Actions list: add deselect,unselect to list of action name synonyms
+ Actions list: match synonyms when next to various non-alphanumeric characters
+ API: allow plug-in audio hooks to read/modify incoming MIDI messages from the current block
+ API: add GetThingFromPoint() which can return WALTER elements
+ API: add read-only track property to read position of WALTER elements, e.g. P_UI_RECT:tcp.mute
+ Freeze: add option in preferences/rendering to generate muted silent items from muted source items [t=255812]
+ FX browser: add menu item to duplicate JSFX
+ FX browser: add option to always search all FX when using search field [t=256322]
+ Linux: safer plug-in X11 window destruction
+ macOS: improve default focus of various windows
+ MIDI: don’t allow setting MIDI note-on velocity to zero in event properties dialog
+ Peaks: label slider “display zoom” in peaks settings window to match action names
+ Preferences: enable apply button when toggling ‘allow space key to be used for navigation’ setting [t=256970]
+ Render: automatically filter control characters from filenames on render targets [t=256971]
+ Tracks: option to disable track metering affects only selected tracks
+ Video: fix rendering at framerates lower than 1/video_cache_size [t=256901]
+ Video: update media item labels when loading user presets on a take-FX video processor [t=256861]
+ VST: improve VST3 handling of 0x90-encoded note-offs [t=256283]
+ VST: detect changes to window size on Linux bridged VST2
+ VST: fix UI idle processing for bridged VST2 on Linux
+ VST: prevent calling effEditClose twice on Windows and macOS bridged VST2 plug-ins [p=2474831]