REAPER | Old Versions

REAPER v6.83 - October 11, 2023
We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy
Downloads:

Changes:

CLAP: fix recording automation in touch mode ^.
CLAP: round MIDI velocity values returned from plugins ^.
Crossfades: fix grouped crossfade edits potentially coming ungrouped in certain situations ^.
Drag and drop: fix potential crash ^.
JSFX/EEL2: fix function return value passing to variadic functions on arm ^.
lv2: fix support for patches defined in manifest
macOS: fix potential metal drawing glitches when changing from retina to non-retina layouts
macOS: fix minor retina drawing errors
Marker/region manager: support importing multiple markers/regions with the same time position
Media items: improve multiple selection behavior when editing crossfade or shared media item edges ^.
MIDI editor: reset note start time when switching quantization to note end or length only ^.
MIDI editor: do not display inactive takes after switching takes ^.
MIDI editor: enable solo feature for position-in-measure and length settings in MIDI filter
MIDI editor: fix undo when editing left edge of parent item ^.
MIDI editor: improve color matching when coloring notes by track or media item
MIDI editor: various note-length setting actions now auto-extend MIDI items according to preference
Preferences: if the current color theme overrides media item coloring preferences, display the theme-set preferences (grayed out) in Preferences/Appearance/Peaks/Waveforms
Preferences: use actions window synonyms option when searching
Project metadata: do not commit metadata if user presses escape key while editing
Project tabs: improved tooltip positioning ^.
Razor edits: copy fade-in/fade-out if any part of the fade is included in the razor edit
ReaScript: properly syntax highlight Lua hex-fp numbers ^.
ReaScript: update parameter modulation window when changing parameter link settings ^.
ReaScript: preserve FXID (if unique to project) when pasting FX/importing track templates
Recent projects: if holding alt/opt when opening a recent project from menu, load with FX offline
Recording: fix take record pass related functionality when loop recording ^.
Render: improve error message when saved render format is not available ^.
Takes: do not auto-force-offline inactive takes which are surrounded by one or more empty takes
Track manager: improve resizing behavior on macOS
Track panels: improve cursor feedback when reordering tracks/making folders
Track panels: tweak folder drag destination area to be middle third of left fifth of TCP
Track reordering: improve drag and drop behavior when dragging a track in-place
Track templates: fix incorrect loading of certain track template content (e.g. some video processors) ^.
VST: order MIDI output from plugins to prioritize plugin-generated bank select messages ^.
VST: support VST3 preset paths on Linux
Windows: fix keystrokes potentially being ignored immediately after alt+mousedrag

REAPER v6.82 - August 23, 2023
Fortified with Optimism
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Accessibility: improve labels for time signature edit window
Actions: add 'unpool' / 'un-pool' as default synonyms
Actions: detect and support multi-word synonyms ^.
Actions: ignore leading/trailing non-word characters when matching synonyms ^.
API: better support for extension-created click sources and multi-project support
ARA: fix possible hang when ARA plugin analyzes media with negative start-in-source offset
Batch converter: support preserving metadata when converting from media items ^.
CLAP: fix incorrect measure start value sent to plugins ^.
FX: fix issues when per-FX PDC mode is combined with auto-bypass ^.
FX: improve performance metering responsiveness when muting tracks ^.
JSFX: support EEL2 preprocessor include()
JSFX: reduce memory use for multiple instances of plug-ins that load images ^.
Localization: fix a few missing localizations ^.
Localization: allow using semicolon as a synonym delimiter if first character of synonym list is a semicolon
LV2: non-automatable patch parameter support including atom:Path filename selection ^.
macOS: fix various retina-related display glitches (e.g. zoomed-in item labels)
macOS: optimize Metal drawing for various contexts, improving behavior for some multimonitor M2 systems ^. ^.
Metadata: snap BPM auto-detected from filename to samplerate
Metadata: support 5.0 and 6.0 WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE channel layouts ^.
MIDI editor: improve mousewheel event adjustment via action ^.
Mixer: improve click descriptions for send context menu
Mouse: envelope control panel respects preference to ignore mousewheel on all faders
Mouse: respect preference to reverse mousewheel when scrolling TCP ^.
Navigator: display items correctly in free item positioning tracks
Preferences: move preference to control track parenting when mouse-dragging to Editing Behavior/Mouse page
Project bay: display bridged status in performance column, allow filtering to match this status
Project bay: do not delete folder when un-retaining media in multiple selection ^.
Project bay: support dragging media from project bay to add-track area
Project bay: when in FX tab, filtering searches preset, developer, type
Project bay: when matching FX, allow words to be matched from different columns
Project tabs: improve display of monitoring FX button when there are many project tabs ^.
Project tabs: show full project path and info in tooltip ^.
Raw PCM media: add button to source properties dialog to reload media (after editing .rsrc definition file)
ReaScript: allow gfx_showmenu() without gfx_init() on Windows ^.
ReaScript: support EEL2 preprocessor include()
ReaScript: reduce memory use for common images ^.
ReaScript: optimize Lua table watching
Tabs: show tooltips for tabs that have truncated text
Take: fix various behaviors when reversing take via action ^.
Windows: fix UTF-8 issues in various combo boxes ^.

REAPER v6.81 - July 4, 2023
Bug Meridian
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Accessibility: improve description of default track record settings button in preferences
Accessibility: add preference to use standard (screen-reader accessible) OS editing control for video processor code
Accessibility: improve keyboard navigation of video processor presets
Actions window: add 'second/2nd' as default synonyms
Actions window: allow removing shortcut by hitting delete while shortcut list focused
API: fix inconsistent rounding for TrackFX_FormatParamValue on bypass envelopes
ARA: fix potential click at media item end when ARA plugin affects timing of output
AU: fix restoring UI size for AUv3 plugins
Command line: add batch file converter config file parameter to limit CPU core usage ^.
Custom menus/toolbars: fix adding multiple actions at once ^.
FX: when adding multiple FX at once to per-take FX, ensure the track has enough channels
Import: if media file contains tempo metadata and filename also suggests a tempo, prefer the metadata tempo
Import: when tempo-matching, respect tempo embedded in metadata even if the resulting file length is a fractional number of beats ^.
Linux: multiple-instance checking automatically detects and ignores separate installs
macOS: improve multiple-instance checking (option in preferences/general, automatically detect separate installs)
Media items: improve precision when mouse-editing take markers
Metadata: attempt to resolve embedded image file relative to project path
MIDI: allow entering text events of any length ^.
MIDI: fix potential skipped or doubled MIDI notes when splitting by channel ^.
MIDI: fix re-importing MIDI that was exported from REAPER with linear tempo changes ^.
ReaSurroundPan: support manually entering non-normalized envelope point values ^.
Save as: when using trim and stretch markers, better handle corner cases ^.
Silence removal: fix behavior when processing multiple media items on the same track ^.
Track icons: improve cross-platform compatibility with subdirectory resolution ^.
Video: improve UI for audio preferences in video source properties dialog

REAPER v6.80 - May 27, 2023
soy loco por los cornballs
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions: add action to set snap offset for item under mouse to mouse position
Arrange: improve auto-scroll behavior when adjusting scrollbars
Audio Units: possible fix for occasional crash when loading plug-in state ^.
Automation items: support toggling automation items following project default behavior without changing other settings ^.
CLAP: do not apply plugin PDC/latency to MIDI events if the plugin produces MIDI output ^.
CLAP: fix interpolating parameter values in first buffer block after playback start ^.
CLAP: prevent adding duplicate parameter change events to event queue
CLAP: support enumerated parameters with arbitrary range ^.
CLAP: add clap_get_reaper_context() API
Command line: support passing reascript on command line, for example: 'reaper.exe projectfile.rpp scriptfile.lua'
Command line: support inserting media or running reascripts in already-running REAPER instance, for example: 'reaper.exe -nonewinst media.wav scriptfile.lua'
Customize menu/toolbar: display full action description in menu/toolbar entry context menu
FX: improve anticipative FX scheduling to improve performance with slow media disks
FX: improve performance of anticipative FX multiprocessing on folder tracks that use PDC ^.
FX: improve performance of anticipative FX multiprocessing in various other routing contexts
Handscroll/zoom: improve various behaviors ^.
Linux: fix context menu in video output when OpenGL is used
Localization: fix UTF-8 text in auto-trim/split dialog ^.
macOS: add option in prefs/buffering/advanced to view or change open-file limit
macOS: support controlling existing instance of REAPER via command line (parity with other OSes)
Media explorer: do not interrupt project peak building when closing media explorer ^.
Metadata: support LRC channel configuration in WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE metadata ^.
MIDI: fix import of .mid files containing unused bytes after the end of the MIDI data
MIDI: support entering blank string for default name for in-project MIDI media items
Mixer: if preference disabled to change track selection when clicking track control panel buttons, do not change track selection when clicking master track meter in the mixer
MP3: fix off-by-one-sample initial latency when decoding ^.
MP3: make end of file peaks display consistent with other types
ReaControlMIDI: support loading sysex message from file ^.
ReaScript: improve Lua documentation for some third-party functions ^.
ReaScript: improve documentation for Track/TakeFX_GetPreset() ^.
Regions: add action to select/unselect all regions for rendering
Render: flush FX when normalizing audio during video render ^.
Render: resolve '..' in render file name ^.
Render: support $directory, $directory2, etc wildcards, representing the project directory parent (parent's parent, etc) on disk
Searching: fix incorrect matching of latin-1 characters in various filter fields ^.
Takes: changing active take via mouse affects grouped media items and tracks even if those tracks are hidden ^.
Track panels: add preference to use shift key to control whether drag and drop of track panel creates a folder
Video: fix typo in blitter feedback preset
VST: do not apply PDC to MIDI if the plugin generates MIDI events, even if the plugin does not process MIDI input
VST: fix bridged VST3 initial sizing on Windows ^.
Windows: re-support 2GB+ ReaperThemeZip and ReaperConfigZip files (6.57+ regression) ^.

REAPER v6.79 - April 23, 2023
regular scheduled assembly
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

API: allow renaming FX via TrackFX_SetNamedConfigParm(renamed_name), also support FX_GetNamedConfigParm(original_name) ^.
API: fix Take/TrackFX_GetNamedConfigParm(fx_type) for CLAP plugins
API: improve responsiveness of MIDI_EnumSelEvts() etc with MIDI listview open ^.
API: update UI in response to setting various send parameters ^.
ARA: mark project dirty when the plugin informs REAPER that the audio modifications have changed
FX: avoid audio-thread reset of FX when moving between chains with different oversampling settings
FX: improve behavior with certain FX and parameter changes when in automation-read mode ^.
FX: rename-FX window uses modal window positioning preference
FX: fix possible crash when oversampling used with classic per-FX PDC ^.
FX: include saved chains in Browser, All Plugins view
Hardware outputs: improve quality when muting/unmuting tracks that have hardware outputs
IDEs: improve syntax highlighting around EEL2 preprocessor-text
JSFX: effects can now check reaper_version and max_nch from their preprocessor
JSFX: fix loading JSFX from subdirectory of project Effects directory ^.
JSFX: fix project state for high numbers of sliders with very large values
JSFX: fix state encoding of more than 64 sliders with no preset name set
macOS: improve selection-related performance of list views with many visible items (Media Explorer, MIDI Event List, Project Bay, etc)
macOS: work around Ventura multimonitor issue by deferring initialization of windows until after applicationDidFinishLaunching: completes
Media Explorer: add actions to edit metadata tags
Menus: allow customization of MIDI CC lane context menu prior to first display ^.
MIDI: add preference for media item name wildcard format for in-project MIDI items
MIDI: handle text meta-messages (like track title) when importing type 1 MIDI files that do not contain a tempo track ^.
MIDI epxort: allow configuring PPQN when exporting project MIDI
MIDI export: avoid creating non-standard .mid files with high PPQN divisions
MIDI import: prevent hang when importing corrupt midi files
MIDI import: fix possible off-by-one-tick timing of event at end of track ^.
Multimonitor: improve behavior of floating windows opening to secondary monitors
Multimonitor: improve behavior when repositioning offscreen windows
Notation: improve PDF export support for latin-1 characters in lyrics, etc ^.
Pencil drawing: fix potential unsafe memory access when drawing new MIDI items
Pin connector window: improve scrollbar behavior
ReaScript: EEL ReaScripts can now check reaper_version from their preprocessor
ReaVerb: fix gain issues with resampling of certain impulse response files ^.
Recording: improve record pass logic and $recpass wildcard ^. ^.
Render: fix embedding performer, songwriter, ISRC metadata in CUE files ^.
Routing window: improve display of new destination channels in menu ^.
Sends: add options to have sends, hardware outputs unaffected by mute/solo
Sends: apply mute fades to post-fader sends when muting/unmuting tracks
Subprojects: fix potential crash when pasting subproject and copy media on paste is enabled ^.
Super8: add optional per-channel fadeout of configurable loop-length multiple ^.
Super8: avoid small glitch when stopping the last channel
Super8: fix incorrect behavior when the same CC is used to record multiple channels ^.
Super8: improve quality and performance of reverse function ^.
Super8: use quadratic fades when starting/stopping playback (previously exponential)
Take envelopes: improve matching logic when copying envelopes from take to take via drag and drop
Terminology: update various pre-FX labels to be 'Pre-Fader (Pre-FX)'
Tooltips: improve behavior with inactive windows ^.
Tooltips: improve behavior with toolbars and inactive application
Track grouping: support changing group color in track grouping parameters dialog
Track grouping: support removing track from all other groups in track grouping parameters dialog
Track grouping matrix: only display tooltips when mouse is over a meaningful area
Track metering: when using pre-fader metering, show meters for muted/unsoloed tracks
Undo: restore saving of project extension state in undo, extensions should be updated to only include undo-relevant state in these config blocks ^. ^.
Vertical zoom: fix (yet again) zooming logic for certain themes
Video: effects can now check reaper_version from their preprocessor
VST: add compatibility setting to ignore VST3 setDirty calls
VST: fix compatibility with VST3 plugins that report track context, like Console 1 ^.
VST: fix for VST3 that respond to query requests as mono ^.
Web interfaces: more_me supports track names that end in spaces ^.
Windows: x64 installer now installs drivers for both x64 and x86 if ReaRoute enabled

REAPER v6.78 - March 14, 2023
something round here at various times
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Accessibility: improve description of render postprocessing (normalize/limit/fade)
Actions: add action to maximize height of selected items in free item positioning mode
Actions: fix time selection sometimes being cleared when running action to set tempo from selection ^.
FX: enable actions for last tweaked parameter for non-track FX
FX: show built-in VST/AU/LV2 preset names in FX browser/project bay ^.
FX: fix loading of REAPER presets for VST shell plug-ins in FX browser/Project Bay ^.
FX: show video processors in project bay
FX: show video processor presets in FX browser
MIDI: auto-name new MIDI items similarly to new audio media items, without "untitled MIDI item"
MIDI: snap edge edits to start/end points of non-looping but pooled MIDI items
MIDI editor: improve performance when removing MIDI items/switching editor contexts ^.
MIDI editor: fix window position saving when maximized/zoomed on Linux/macOS
MIDI editor: screensets include maximized/zoomed window state
MIDI editor: when restoring screensets, obey preference for opening all project or all track MIDI
Project tabs: doubleclick empty area in tab list to create new tab ^.
Render: $marker wildcard matches the first marker within the rendered time range, or latest marker before the start ^.
Render: display correct file length in render statistics chart when using custom project playrate ^.
Render: display peaks for the file that is selected in render statistics list view
Render: fix displaying extra rows in render statistics when using secondary render format and rendering multiple files ^.
Snap: do not snap to phantom loop points of non-looping items ^.
Track panels: improve tooltips for FX bypass button with no FX
Vertical zoom: fix issues with themes that have duplicate common heights defined ^.
VST: change 12/14/16 channel mode priority to default to 6.75 behavior ^.
Windows: fix keyboard focus on various rename windows

REAPER v6.76 - February 28, 2023
take me down to parallax city where the back moves slow and the front moves quickly
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Accessibility: improve tab ordering of various child windows
Actions: preserve precision when modifying MIDI CC events via meta-actions
Actions: prevent healing an unlooped media item with a copy of itself ^.
API: fix return value for Take/TrackFX_GetNamedConfigParm fx_type on video processors
Appearance: improve many small text/control alignment issues
Appearance: fix theme rendering bugs with overlay images
Audio Units: prevent rebuild of parameter list during render ^.
Automation: add Options/Preserve trailing values when recording automation ^.
Automation: improve behavior when recording and looping
Automation: improve performance when writing mute automation
Automation items: add preference to record to existing non-selected automation items
Automation items: various fixes related to recording to automation items
Automation items: when recording automation creates new items, create smaller items if they intersect existing items ^.
Automation items: correctly handle start offsets when inserting/removing time in/from project via action or region move ^.
Automation items: improve end-of-automation item chasing logic ^.
Automation items: improve glue/draw behavior when in automation item-only envelope mode ^.
Automation items: simplify description of 'always record to automation items' option
Automation items: when moving, obey media item snap start/end option ^.
Automation items: when using trim-behind to split automation items, obey pool-on-split setting ^.
Automation items: fix possibly incorrect results when using AI-only mode, chase non-FX envelopes to AIs ^.
CLAP: fix saving of pin mappings in configuration, other bugs
CLAP: support build multichannel routing action
Editing: fix copying grouped media items on hidden tracks ^.
Fades: add preference to not create fades larger than X pixels when splitting (pre-6.69 behavior) ^.
FX: improve behavior when the audio device asynchronously changes samplerate while loading a project
FX: improve locking behavior when rescanning VST3/AU parameters
FX: update arrange/envelope panel UI after plug-in changes parameter count/info
IDEs: improve indentation behavior when copying/pasting multiple lines ^.
IDEs: improve shift+click selection logic ^.
Linux: fix cursor blinking in single-line edit controls and comboboxes
Linux: fix hit testing/focus issues with some window managers when using back-to-back modal dialogs
Linux: improve focus issues when opening modal windows via click/doubleclick
Linux: improve keyboard behavior in MIDI editor grid/etc comboboxes
Linux: make listview right-click behavior match macOS/Windows
Lyrics.lua: support UTF-8 text editing
macOS: allow numpad enter to close various modeless windows ^.
macOS: improve behavior of enter/return keys in non-REAPER FX plug-in windows ^. ^.
Media item properties: improve behavior of enter/return key (applies and closes if not docked, use shift modifier to only apply)
Media item properties: improve tab order
MIDI: do not chase NRPN when seeking or splitting
MIDI: fix incorrect extension of non-looped MIDI item in overdub mode ^.
MIDI: fix potential issue with sorting (and CC reset) when using input monitoring and media ^.
MIDI: global option to not chase MIDI note-ons also prevents chasing of MIDI CC/PC/pitch ^.
MIDI: when disabling note chasing via option, fix cases where note starting exactly at edit cursor may not get played
MIDI: fixed looped item detection when splitting MIDI items ^.
MIDI: add preference to disable CC/PC chasing when splitting MIDI items
MIDI editor: improve mousewheel behavior with fast moves ^.
MIDI editor: rename named notes/drum map action for consistency with menu items
MIDI editor: when extending item by adjusting loop point, set item length to match tick-rounded source length ^.
MIDI editor: overhaul screenset behavior ^.
Mouse: improve precision of mouse gestures and mousewheel when bound to actions
MusicXML: fix gracenote export ^.
MusicXML: fix import of tempo and gracenotes
Notation editor: improve handscroll behavior
Notation editor: improve mousewheel scroll behavior ^.
Notation editor: improve scroll calculation logic ^.
Performance: avoid audio underruns in background projects when reordering project via region move
Project bay: fix issues with the occasional dynamically generated menu item performing the wrong action
ReaScript: add GetSetProjectInfo_String() RECORD_FORMAT APPLYFX_FORMAT OPENCOPY_CFGIDX ^.
ReaScript: add SendMIDIMessageToHardware()
ReaScript: fix Ctrl+A-Z return values for gfx_getchar() on macOS ^.
ReaSynth: fix text field behavior with automated parameters ^.
Render: allow resizing render process/statistics window
Ripple editing: when inserting time in project via action, avoid adding redundant tempo markers ^.
RPL import: support importing multiple .rpl files at once via file browser
RPL import: improve user interface when duplicates are present
Solo: alt+clicking solo buttons on soloed tracks now toggles solo type, improve solo menu behavior ^.
Take implosion: allow items to be imploded into multiple overlapping items ^.
Take implosion: improve slight-overlap detection logic
Take markers: fix drawing glitch with vertical scroll ^.
Transport: improve time readout/status readout cross-platform alignment (updates default theme)
Undo: don't include tcp/mcp fx/send list offsets in undo state
Undo: exclude registered project extension state from undo ^.
Undo: fix latent undo changes being added when inserting new tracks ^.
Undo: undo points are now added for snap items actions ^.
Undo: fix incorrect reset of group override on undo/redo ^.
Vertical zoom: overhaul, allow more fractional zoom state
Vertical zoom: add preference for maximum vertical zoom
Vertical zoom: add new and default actions for mousewheel zoom that do not snap to theme-defined sizes
VST3: support 7.1.4, 9.1.4, and 9.1.6 speaker layouts (for FabFilter etc)
VST3: fix detection of Surge XT (and other VST3 with sidechain inputs) as instrument
VST3: respond to MIDI PC/Learn on plug-ins that have no MIDI input buses
Windows: fix return key behavior on various buttons including Preferences

REAPER v6.74 - February 2, 2023
Bing!
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Accessibility: improve descriptions of ReaEQ/ReaPitch/ReaDelay enabled buttons
Accessibility: improve ordering of controls in GetUserInputs() API
Accessibility: set description for FX active (bypass) checkbox
Accessibility: improve keyboard navigation/screen reader behavior for sends in track routing menu
Accessibility: improve screen reader behavior for hardware output list in track routing menu
Accessibility: add higher-contrast default I-Beam (time selection) cursor
Actions: add action to play/stop (move edit cursor on stop)
Actions: respect group-disable setting in action to duplicate items ^.
Actions: improve description of action to glue items to match menu description ^.
Actions window: add join/heal, during/while as default synonyms
Actions window: update toggle states in response to actions ^.
Actions window: when sorting by command ID, sort by identifier string ^.
API: add midi editor play cursor preview override API for PlayTime
API: avoid performance issues due to old SWS versions flooding with calls to RefreshToolbar()
API: SetMouseModifier(ctx,-1,-1) will reset all modifiers to default for that context; SetMouseModifier(-1,-1,-1) will reset all modifiers to default for all contexts
API: add GetInputActivityLevel()
API: add support for audio control signal x2/y2 parameters in FX_GetNamedConfigParm() ^.
Audio Units: fixed bridged plug-in parameter unit names and tail time change detection
Audio Units: respond to kAudioUnitProperty_ParameterList to update parameter list at plug-in request
Audio Units: support custom string displays for parameters ^.
CLAP: fix default path list on Windows ^.
CLAP: support text_to_value to improve manual editing of envelope point parameters
Defaults: change snap-to-nearby-media-items to by default only snap to items on the same track as the current item
Dynamic split: respect track edit grouping when splitting grouped items
Envelope point editor: fix disappearing shapes after editing tempo/mute envelopes
Filtering: fix matching of accented characters at start of search filter
Filtering: support matching Unicode Latin Extended-A characters when searching for unaccented characters
Freeze: when freezing, preserve MIDI-only receives ^.
Freeze: when freezing to mono/stereo, preserve audio sidechain receives ^.
FX chain window: add menu item to cut FX including automation
FX chain window: improve list focus behavior when renaming instance
Grouping: reset automatic track grouping to default when creating new project
Group manager: fix redundant refreshes
IDEs: improve international keyboard support
IDEs: improve home-key behavior (thanks Giorgos Vougioukas)
IDEs: fix inconsistency in column indicators, improve behavior of Ctrl+End (thanks Giorgos Vougioukas)
IDEs: improve autocomplete behavior when using EEL2 namespaces ^.
IDEs: improve behavior of panes and undo/redo ^.
IDEs: smarter selection of suggested items on initial mousemove ^.
IDEs: suggest list does not respond to mouse movement when inactive ^.
IDEs: fix loss of X position when scrolling vertically in some instances ^.
JSFX: add mem_multiply_sum(), mem_insert_shuffle(), get_host_placement() [jss=mem_multiply_sum] [jss=get_host_placement]
JSFX: improve gfx_getchar() to return discrete unicode values when available [jss=gfx_getchar]
JSFX: extend slider_automate() to allow for touch recording [jss=slider_automate]
JSFX: if 'tags: instrument' is present in header, treat as an instrument [sdk=js/js.php#tags]
JSFX: improve manual editing of envelope points for parameters that have named values
JSFX: per-sample and per-automated-block performance optimizations
JSFX: support log/exp-scaled sliders for controls, specify :log or :log=offset after step size [sdk=js/js.php#slider_shaping]
JSFX: support polynomial-scaled fader scaling, default is square, specify :sqr for x^2 or :sqr=3 after step size
JSFX: support up to 256 sliders per FX, longer parameter names, very long lines ^.
JSFX: throttle calls to gfx_showmenu() to prevent accidental annoyance ^.
JSFX: support EEL2 preprocessing [sdk=js/preproc.php]
JSFX: update Super8, channel mixer to use preprocessor
Localization: improve support for various loudness-related displays
LV2: do not unload plug-in bundles on macOS or Linux ^.
LV2: fix potential crash on macOS UI destruction ^.
LV2: improve manual editing of envelope points for parameters that are named enums
macOS: fix ampersand drawing in tooltips ^.
macOS: improve compatibility of 'Open source file' mouse modifier dragging ^.
Media explorer: add action to calculate peak volume for all media (will skip files that have already been calculated)
Media explorer: do not allow shortcuts panel to be resized to exactly zero ^.
Media explorer: fix action to open file in explorer with certain paths ^.
Media explorer: fix button appearance on Linux when using DPI scaling
Media explorer: improve handling of RfxChain and FX preset files ^.
Media explorer: support editing metadata via right-click menu for .mid files ^.
Media item properties: improve start-in-source display in certain stretch marker scenarios ^.
Media items: always account for media item label drawn above item when calculating vertical offset for overlapping items ^.
Media items: fix potentially-dropped MIDI events at end of item ^.
Menu/toolbar editor: increase width of listview columns ^.
MIDI: when trimming items due to split, chase CC/pitch/etc
MIDI list editor: fix mousewheel action bindings ^.
Mixer: add Cut menu items to FX context menu
Mouse modifiers: fix potential crash when deleting track via user-assigned action from media item click/razor edit click
Mouse modifiers: fix support for binding actions with small ID numbers to click/doubleclick contexts
Notation editor: fix UI quirks when the piano roll is set to project synchronized time base ^.
Notation editor: improve layout when resizing, make limits affected by size ^.
Paste: improve behavior when pasting .RfxChain/.fxb/.vstpreset files into track or item context
Preferences: add setting in Preferences/Seeking to seek playback when clicking on media items
Preferences: fix searching when starting from a preferences page that is added by an extension ^.
Project load: always show details of unrecognized project tokens
Razor edits: add action to enclose media items in separate razor edit areas for each selected media item, rather than a single razor edit enclosing all selected media items
Razor edits: add mouse modifiers to move razor edits without contents horizontally/vertically/on one axis only
Razor edits: add option to move edit cursor on razor edit change
Razor edits: fix adjusting media item length when using timebase beats (position only) ^.
Razor edits: fix envelope cut/paste (6.72 regression)
Razor edits: fix some behaviors when pasting razor edit areas to master track ^.
Razor edits: fix action to move razor edit areas up/down/forward/back without contents for master track ^.
Razor edits: fix restoring master track razor edits on project load
Razor edits: fix undo for razor edits on master track envelopes ^.
Razor edits: handle master track in action to move nearest razor edit edge to cursor ^.
Razor edits: improve behavior when "overlap and crossfade media when finalizing razor edits" enabled ^.
Razor edits: only copy fade-in/fade-out if the start/end of the media item is included in the razor edit
Razor edits: prevent moving razor edit areas to tempo envelope when using mouse modifier to move razor edit area ignoring envelope type ^.
Razor edits: support cut/copy/paste on project play rate envelope ^.
ReaEQ: correct label for band bandwidth parameter
ReaScript: add EEL2 mem_multiply_sum(), mem_insert_shuffle() [jss=mem_multiply_sum]
ReaScript: extend gfx.getchar() to return discrete unicode values when available
ReaScript: support EEL2 preprocessing [sdk=js/preproc.php]
Recording: fix $recpass000 wildcard when used in the middle of the filename ^.
Recording: fix potential extra count-in measure being added with round-to-measure checked ^.
Recording: improve behavior with MIDI replace recording mode
Render: display render statistics as list view in render progress window
Render: improve tab order around output format configuration
Render: support $takemarker(name) and $takemarker(name)[separator] wildcards ^.
Render: swap order of close and back buttons after successful render
Render: update dialog when changing render region selection ^.
Render: support wildcard case conversion for Unicode Latin Supplemental and Latin Extended-A accented characters ^.
Routing window: display track parent name in routing dialog title
Routing matrix/track wiring: show if signal is present on audio/MIDI inputs
Routing matrix: improve record input selection indication on multichannel record inputs
Timestretch: add new ReaReaRea mode that uses randomized overlapped windows and project resampling mode ^.
Timestretch: improve ordering of modes menu
Tooltips: prevent tooltips from occuring when window is inactive ^.
Track grouping: items on edit-grouped tracks follow mouse-click take selection changes ^.
Track grouping: prevent grouping razor edits on master track ^.
Track grouping manager: fix Unicode characters in group names on Windows
Track manager: fix visibility of collapsed child tracks when filtering ^.
Track manager: fix gridline display when hiding columns on Windows ^.
Undo: consolidate undo points when inserting multiple FX via action ^.
Video: add get_host_placement()
Video: support EEL2 preprocessing [sdk=js/preproc.php]
Virtual MIDI keyboard: fix entering center note via keyboard
Virtual MIDI keyboard: improve keyboard navigation
Virtual MIDI keyboard: remove space from note names
VST: add compatibility setting to pass channel silence flags to VST3 plug-ins ^.
VST: detect VST2 shell plug-in synth status using same logic as non-shell plug-ins
VST: improve multiprocessing performance with UADx plug-ins
VST: re-map automation by parameter ID if parameters change due to restartComponent
Windows: improve ASIO channel defaults, remember channel configuration per device
Windows: do not allow setting default ASCII keybindings to global, require manual remap first ^.

REAPER v6.73 - December 24, 2022
Paperclip Maximizer v1.1
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions window: fix synonym search matching at end of string (e.g. colour$)
Actions window: searching matches various accented characters against their non-accented equivalents ^.
Actions window: refresh after script or plug-in action added
Audio devices: fix input/output audio channel aliasing when only removing highest I/O ^.
Click source: fix hang on invalid tempo entry ^.
Grouping: fix items on the same track being treated as grouped for edge edits ^.
Grouping: improve grouped edge editing behaviors ^.
Grouping: improve some corner case behaviors when track media/razor edit groups are used in addition to automatically grouping selected tracks
Grouping: respect FIPM position when applying track edit grouping to edge edits ^.
IDEs: improve international keyboard support on Windows
Linux: fix support for {} and other keys in various text fields ^.
macOS: fix support for {} and other keys in various text fields
Master VU: fix setting red threshold dB ^.
Media explorer: avoid temporary freeze when accidentally doing a tiny drag from file list or playback preview area
Media explorer: faster searching of exact words
Media explorer: searching matches various accented characters against their non-accented equivalents
Media items: improve display performance when media items have many take markers outside the visible bounds of the item ^.
Peak building: fix 6.72 regression where peaks would fail to complete building for some media ^.
Razor edits: fix deleting areas on master track envelopes with ripple-all-tracks enabled ^.
Razor edits: fix grouped preview on FIPM tracks
Razor edits: fix pasting envelope areas to master track
ReaControlMIDI: label "GP Slider 1" as "CC 16+48 (GP 1)", etc ^.
ReaScript: add MEDIA_EDIT_LEAD/MEDIA_EDIT_FOLLOW to documentation for GetSetTrackGroupMembership, etc
ReaScript: improve gfx.getchar() international keyboard support
Render: improve speed of writing outfile.render_stats.html when rendering many regions at once ^.
Routing: improve display of parent send channel dropdowns
Split items: when creating fade-in/fade-out, limit generated fade length to 25% of arrange view width

REAPER v6.72 - December 19, 2022
Paperclip Maximizer v1.0
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions: add action to view envelopes for last touched track/item
Actions: deselect unaffected items when running action to split items ^.
Actions: improve description of action to force item spectrogram display ^.
API: add FX NamedConfigParm chain_oversample_shift, chain_pdc_mode, instance_oversample_shift, force_auto_bypass
ARA: verify that pitch/tempo analysis is available before querying ^.
Automation items: fix behavior of action to split items without changing selection
Batch converter: support multi-mono conversion, to split stereo or multichannel audio to multiple mono output files
Batch converter: support $chid wildcard, replaced by channel number or description (C, L, R, LFE, etc)
Batch converter: when splitting multichannel audio, append .c1, .c2, etc to output filenames unless $chid wildcard is supplied
CLAP: quantize stepped parameters before updating plugin ^.
Custom actions editor: improve support for very long action names on Windows
Free item positioning: allow editing FIPM position and height for multiple selected/grouped items at once
FX: add additional descriptions to auto-bypass-related compatibility settings
FX: chain window options for FX instance oversampling always show/apply for selected FX
FX: rename per-plugin-instance auto-bypass option to 'Force auto-bypass'
FX: slight reorganization of chain window menu
Grouping: add new Group Manager window
Grouping: support track media/razor edit groups, including leader/follower groups
Grouping: add and modify track media/razor edit groups via grouping matrix, track group manager, and track group settings dialog
Grouping: media item edits on group-leader tracks will affect media items on all group-follower tracks, as if the media items were grouped
Grouping: actions that split selected media items respect track edit grouping regardless of media item length/overlap
Grouping: razor edits on group-leader tracks will be mirrored on all group-follower tracks
Grouping: don't open "grouping for selected tracks" dialog if no tracks are selected
Grouping: enable "selecting one item selects group" by default for new projects
Grouping: fix media item deselection with regular item groups ^. ^.
Grouping: increase size of media item group display border
Grouping: allow edge editing of offscreen grouped items
Grouping: mouse-copy affects grouped items regardless of item selection
Grouping: mouse modifier to toggle item selection respects grouping when selecting or deselecting ^.
Grouping: right-click in grouping matrix opens group settings dialog for already-selected tracks, rather than auto-selecting tracks
Grouping: when setting/unsetting free item positioning, also modify grouped tracks
Grouping: prevent editing item if any grouped item is locked
Grouping: when "automatically group selected tracks for media/razor editing" and "mouse click/edit in arrange view changes track selection" both enabled, clicking on selected track will not deselect other tracks
Grouping: add actions and toolbar/TCP context menu options to automatically group all tracks, or selected tracks, for media/razor editing
Grouping: add actions to create track media/razor editing group from selected tracks, or remove selected tracks from group
Grouping: add actions to enable/disable individual track groups
Grouping: add buttons to track group settings dialog to open track group manager and grouping matrix
Grouping: add razor edit left-click mouse modifier to remove one area ignoring track grouping
Grouping: add theme element for auto-grouped track indicators
Grouping: support customizing track group colors
Grouping matrix: add option to show/hide flags in matrix
JSFX: fix potential editor crash when switching tabs
Localization: add some missing menu/toolbar names to language pack template ^.
Master VU: fix RMS stereo loudness readout when RMS window length has been customized
Media explorer: fix possible noise at end of time selection playback ^.
Media items: add preference to arrange overlapping media items in the order they were created ^.
Media items: double-click on item volume knob affects all selected items
Media items: fix free item positioning resize behavior ^.
Mouse modifiers: add left-click modifiers to select item and move edit cursor ignoring grouping
Mouse modifiers: add media item left-click modifier to toggle item selection ignoring grouping ^.
Mouse modifiers: set default media item shift+alt (shift+opt) click behavior to create razor edit area (useful when using track media/razor edit grouping)
Mouse modifiers: adjust item contents and left or right edge affect all selected/grouped items with edges that align
Mouse modifiers: edit item fade-in/fade-out with relative edge grouping only affects selected items, not grouped items (same behavior as item edge editing)
Normalize: remove arbitrary +60dB ceiling on normalization adjustment when rendering or batch converting ^.
Notation editor: fix custom note notation action description ^.
Peaks building: fix potential spectral peaks calculation crash on memory allocation failure ^.
Razor edits: fix editing with ripple-all-tracks enabled ^.
Razor edits: fix some behaviors with "ripple-all affects tempo envelope" enabled ^.
Razor edits: fix behavior when moving razor edits on similar envelopes on contiguous tracks ^.
Razor edits: support razor edits on master track envelopes (except tempo envelope)
ReaScript: allow passing small integer values as KbdSectionInfo parameter to APIs as shorthand to access section by ID ^.
ReaScript: improve GetActionShortcutDesc Lua signature ^.
ReaScript: improve JSFX name matching in TrackFX_AddByName() ^. ^.
ReaScript: support GetSetTrackGroupMembership() with "MEDIA_EDIT_LEAD" and "MEDIA_EDIT_FOLLOW"
Region/Marker Manager: fix display glitch when resizing
Region manager: when not displaying track dropdown list nested by folder, indent tracks in folders
Render: fix minor memory leak after rendering
Render: large WAV file behavior for new users defaults to auto wav/RF64 rather than auto wav/wave64
Routing/Grouping/Render matrix: dynamically adjust margins to fit text
Routing/Grouping/Render matrix: improve appearance of folder expand/collapse icons
Routing diagram: fix some hardware input/output UI quirks
Routing diagram: increase width of UI in response to localization
Tooltips: fix incorrect channel labels for mono-sourced sends/hardware outputs ^.
Track/Region/Group Managers: always select row on click
Track/Region/Group Managers: only open dropdown lists and dialogs on double-click
Track/Region/Group Managers: support resetting custom colors to default
Track/Region/Group Managers: support setting items to random colors
Track/Region/Group Managers: decrease margins for ease of use when docked
Track/Region/Group Managers: prevent re-sorting list while editing
Track Group Manager: add menu actions to add/remove selected tracks (note, action is incompatible with option to select tracks when selecting group)
Track Group Manager: add option to display track dropdown list nested by folders
Track Group Manager: add columns to show/hide groups in TCP and mixer
Track Group Manager: add option to add/remove child tracks when adding/removing folder track to group
Track Manager: add column to display track group membership, double-click to open track group settings dialog
Track Manager: add column to expand/collapse folders
Track Manager: add option to show/hide/group child tracks when showing/hiding/grouping folder track
Transport: use time signature when estimating tempo from time selection for tooltip
Video: increase maximum parameter count to 40
Video: support scrollbar for processor knob bank
Video: use hidpi/retina drawing for processor knobs
VST: fix VST2-to-VST3 state migration
VST: remove VST3 input bus silenceFlags support (added in 6.71) due to poor plug-in support (REAPER feature to auto-bypass on silence is unaffected) ^. ^.

REAPER v6.71 - November 28, 2022
Old in the Body, Not in the Mind
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

API: process hook functions for actions that are executed via WM_COMMAND or KBD_OnMainActionEx
Batch converter: attempt to preserve original image metadata if possible
Batch converter: do not override user-added metadata when preserving source metadata
Batch converter: maintain converter-specific metadata rather than using project metadata
CLAP: add support for CLAP plugins
CLAP: support "cockos.reaper_extension", which returns a reaper_plugin_info_t structure for REAPER API access (see reaper_plugin.h)
FLAC: fix occasional failure when embedding image metadata in rendered FLAC file
FX: add project setting to auto-bypass plug-ins that report tail length, with user-defined silence threshold
FX: add per-instance setting to auto-bypass plug-in (uses automatic tail detection if plug-in does not report tail length)
FX: add compatibility setting to force automatic tail detection, allowing plug-ins to opt-in to project auto-bypass
FX browser: improve configuration for hiding duplicate plug-ins of different types
FX browser: when hiding duplicates, ignore trailing channel counts
JSFX: add ext_tail_size in order to support auto-bypass
JSFX: update many built-in FX to support auto-bypass
Linux: improve keyboard handling for plug-ins
Localization: support localizing layout category names, wiring diagram labels, etc ^.
Localization: support longer action names in action dialog/custom actions editor
Localization: fix UTF-8 in time-signature marker editor combo box on Windows
macOS: fix various incorrectly displayed keyboard shortcuts in menus ^.
Media explorer: greatly improve search speed with large databases ^.
Media import: ignore numbers that look like sample rates (e.g. "48k") when attempting to interpret tempo from filename
Media items: arrange overlapping items by the order the items were added to the track ^.
Metadata: fix possible mislabeling of generic metadata in source properties dialog and media explorer
Metadata: optionally include metadata in render and batch converter presets
Metadata: support embedding ID3 tags in .aiff files
Metadata: support displaying embedded metadata images (cover art, etc) in MP3, FLAC, WAV, AIFF source properties dialog
MIDI: fix recording of multiple takes via retroactive record ^.
Preferences: add rendering option to disable auto-bypass when using offline render/apply FX/etc
Project bay: add FX menu item to toggle auto-bypass
ReaPlugs: support silence-processing optimizations
ReaScript: improve get_action_context() (see documentation)
ReaScript: add GetEnvelopeUIState()
ReaScript: add GetSetProjectInfo_String MARKER_INDEX_FROM_GUID: support ^.
ReaScript: add param.X.[learn|lfo|acs|plink|mod] to [Track|Take]FX_[Get|Set]NamedConfigParm capabilities
ReaScript: add VIDEO_CODE and vst_chunk/vst_chunk_program/clap_chunk to [Track|Take]FX_[Get|Set]NamedConfigParm capabilities
ReaScript: add SetTrackUI[Volume/Pan/Width/Mute/Solo/RecArm/InputMonitor/Polarity] with grouping options and fewer side effects than their CSurf_ equivalents
ReaScript: add support for numerous keyboard/action-related APIs that were previously C-only
ReaScript: allow accessing envelopes for FX parameters that have modulation but no envelope points
ReaScript: extend SetProjectMarkerByIndex2 to allow deferred re-sort of project markers ^.
ReaScript: update InsertMedia/InsertMediaSection to support modifying RS5k on arbitrary track index, improve docs
ReaVerb: fix deconvolution tail trimming
ReaVerb: support deconvolution of more than 2 channels ^. ^.
Render: do not automatically set render source to render matrix when opening region manager ^.
RS5k: fix undo state issues via RS5k manager script ^.
Sends: optimize processing when sends are effectively inactive
Video: fix resource leak in WMF colorspace conversion ^.
Video: make action to clear cache/re-render frames asynchronous from decoding ^.
Video: restore 6.69 and earlier behavior of _0 in gfx_evalrect() ^.
VST: do not use VST3 bus silenceFlags if buggy compatibility mode is set
VST: activate/deactivate VST3 busses on the fly in response to pin mapper changes
VST: move more of PDC buffer initialization to playback start
WAV: prioritize displaying higher-confidence text from embedded cue data ^.
WAV: support reading/writing BW64 files (ADM metadata is ignored)
Web interface: fix fancier.html record armed track detection with a single track ^.

REAPER v6.70 - November 15, 2022
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions: add various actions to render multichannel (parent send only) stems
Custom action editor: increase column width for long action names ^.
Envelopes: improve redraw of envelope panel and track panel knobs with touch automation
Localization: support localizing menu/toolbar names, metronome dotted strings ^.
macOS: improve behavior when reordering treeview items by dragging
Metadata: fix possible mislabeling of generic metadata in source properties dialog and media explorer
Mouse modifiers: sort list of contexts by name [twtr=1583750824177856512]
MP3: fix corruption of embedded chapter metadata when mp3 media goes offline ^.
Razor edits: when duplicating razor edit area, ignore preference to crossfade on finalizing razor edits ^.
Razor edits: fix crash when pasting over a grouped item
Razor edits: fix splitting on multiple razor edits on the same media item
ReaScript: improve behavior with Track/TakeFX_AddByName() for JSFX ^.
ReaScript: support RENDER_TARGETS_EX in EEL2/Lua ^.
Render: add option to render only track channels that are sent to parent
Render: avoid creating paths for rendered files when dry-run rendering ^.
Video: add action to clear cache/re-render frames ^.
Video: fix potential resource leak in WMF encoder
Video: improve gfx_evalrect, adding _slice, _slices, _slice_size, _span variables
Video: fix VLC defaulting to RGB colorspace before first frame is decoded

REAPER v6.69 - October 24, 2022
The REAPER person's REAPER people
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

API: add support for GetSetProjectInfo_String("RENDER_TARGETS_EX"), which returns the list double-null separated ("RENDER_TARGETS" is semicolon-separated)
Batch converter: fix support for <METADATA <TAG when using -batchconvert from command line
Fades/crossfades: limit automatically created fade length to half the width of the arrange view rather than 50 pixels
FX: Improve handling of stepped parameters when displayed in TCP/mixer ^.
Loopback device: allow configuring up to 512 channels of loopback via rearoute_loopback= key in reaper.ini
Media explorer: fix Windows UTF-8 issues with path combo box text ^.
Media explorer: if media does not contain embedded tempo, display tempo implied by media or selection length
Media explorer: shift+mousewheel horizontally scrolls waveform preview when zoomed in (shift+drag hand-scrolls)
Media import: add option to copy media to project directory on paste of items/tracks ^.
MIDI: fix incorrect start time on retroactive record ^.
Notation editor: fix caption for "Enter Text" dialog
Pan: fix linear-taper mode when gain compensation applied and pan law is not +0dB ^.
Preferences: move import-related options from Media to Media/Import
Project settings: add configuration for default track channel count, parent send channel count
Razor edit: fix deleting razor edit areas with ripple-all-tracks enabled ^.
ReaEQ: improve analyzer update when automating/modulating global gain ^.
ReaFIR: improve subtract mode behavior with very quiet noise profiles ^.
ReaFIR: fix analysis quality when in 'reduce artifacts' mode
ReaFIR: correct input vs output analysis gain offset
ReaPlugs: improve spectrum analyzer smoothing to ensure that local peaks are accurately displayed
ReaScript: drag/drop from FX browser to gfx windows will send filenames of @fx:fx_ident to gfx.getdropfile() ^.
ReaScript: fix return value for CalcMediaSrcLoudness()
ReaScript: fix TrackFX_AddByName with only VST2-UID specified
Region/Marker Manager: add option to display take markers that are outside the visible part of the media item ^. ^.
Render: add option to write outfile.render_stats.html for each rendered file ^.
Render: support rendering stems pre-fader from render dialog
Routing: allow arbitrary channel counts for parent send ^.
Video: fix gfx_fillrect() alpha channel writing corner case ^.
VST: hold down control/command key during startup to suppress scanning new/updated VST plugins

REAPER v6.68 - September 22, 2022
LUFStep
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

API: expose realloc_cmd_register_buf/realloc_cmd_clear to C/C++ API ^.
Control surfaces: send notifications when FX bypass parameters are automated
FLAC: fix occasional fail when embedding image metadata in rendered FLAC file
CPU metering: fix incorrect performance meter FX total CPU use readout in percentage mode (6.67 regression) ^.
CPU metering: fix incorrect display when using per-instance FX oversampling
Media explorer: improve undo behavior when inserting samples into RS5k ^.
Media explorer: preserve cached user-overridden metadata when loading filesystem cache that was created in an older version of REAPER ^.
Media explorer: when creating database from folder via context menu, name the database "DB: " by default, for consistency
Media item fades: when not using relative edge edit mouse modifier, edit selected item fades only if the fade start and end both line up with the edited item
Metadata: fix deadlink to XMP metadata specification
MIDI editor: support CC shapes when playing back unsynchronized from project transport ^.
MIDI editor: support CC shapes when scrubbing
Notation editor: more drawing corner case fixes ^.
Pan: fix stereo pan calculation at narrow pans with certain pan laws (6.65 regression) ^.
Project load: display more descriptive warning messages when non-automatable parameter has automation ^.
Project load: slightly improve warning message when project elements are not recognized
Razor edits: improve reassignment of item groups after split and delete in certain scenarios
Razor edits: preserve item grouping when cutting or deleting razor edits with ripple-all-tracks enabled
ReaScript: add support to SetRegionRenderMatrix() to force number of rendered channels
ReaSurroundPan: do not include channel number when automatically naming channels from receives ^.
Render: after user-cancelled render, render statistics actions and API functions return nothing

REAPER v6.67 - September 7, 2022
Barbie's Dream DAW
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions: add action to build selected item peaks if necessary
Actions: respect preferences to trim media behind items, or auto-crossfade, when running action "move to media source preferred position" ^.
AIFF: support reading ID3 metadata embedded in .aif files ^.
Batch converter: add dropdown to choose how many CPU cores to use
Custom action editor: allow longer action names to display when window is resized large ^.
Filenames: allow more than 10,000 similarly named filenames to be generated
FX CPU Metering: improve full accounting of CPU use (from oversampling, bypass envelope, etc)
Glue: ensure per-take FX are reinitialized prior to glue ^.
JSFX: allow reading #dbg_desc from code ^.
JSFX: fix timing of MIDI Arpeggiator ^.
Linux: fix right-doubleclick behavior in MIDI editor keys ^.
Linux: fix doubleclick in track area going to correct context ^.
Localization: add a few missing localized strings ^.
Localization: fix langpack definition for new media import page help text
Localization: improve appearance of envelope window with width scaling ^.
Localization: improve auto-sizing/scaling for controls embedded in various file open/save dialogs ^.
Localization: improve control auto-resizing on Windows when used with dialog scaling ^.
Localization: improve macOS handling of strings that have a key prefix for Windows ^.
Localization: support media explorer size units
macOS: improve mouse hit testing/cursor testing consistency on retina displays/subpixel input devices
Media explorer: enable metadata editing menu items for .aif ^.
Media explorer: fix incoherent file size display for certain sizes ^.
MIDI: add actions to insert retroactively recorded MIDI
MIDI: fix incorrect ordering of certain notes in MIDI_GetRecentInputEvent
MIDI: improve MIDI replace recording corner cases
MIDI: when recording new MIDI items, show all CC data in one lane ^.
MIDI: update arrange view when changing CC lanes in MIDI editor ^.
Peak building: avoid full peakbuild rescan when inserting media
Peak building: optimize for very large projects ^.
Performance meter: add option to show FX CPU as worst-block (for diagnosing problematic realtime plug-ins)
Performance meter: display track media CPU use (includes resampling, take FX, timestretch, etc)
Project bay: add option to disable grouping similar FX in FX tab
Project bay: add option to show track numbers in track column
Project bay: add performance column to FX tab
Project bay: avoid unnecessary metadata cache flushing
Project bay: display idle status for FX when applicable
Project bay: preserve selection when changing FX online/bypass, presets
Project bay: default new folders to expanded
Project metadata: support sorting metadata list by category
Razor edits: fix media item mouse modifier to extend razor edits to item ^.
ReaScript IDE: improve handling of maximize state/docking/etc ^.
ReaSurroundPan: fix influence of height speakers in Auro 11.1 and 13.1 setups
Region manager: add option to add/remove child tracks to render list when adding/removing parent
Region manager: option to display track dropdown list nested by folder is disabled by default
Region manager: support sorting by "Info" column
Region manager: when not displaying track dropdown list nested by folder, indent tracks in folders
Region render matrix: support forcing individual track+region combinations to mono/stereo/multichannel render by right-clicking in region render matrix
Region render matrix: support selecting regions (for rendering selected regions) via click on region number or context menu
Region render matrix: simplify context menu
Region render matrix: recalculate scrollbar size/position when expanding/collapsing tracks or when region names change ^.
Render: add button to display rendered file in Media Explorer
Render: don't automatically replace .mp4 extension when setting video or audio encoder to "none" ^.
Render: fix embedding markers when rendering selected media items and project has customized start offset ^.
Routing/Grouping/Region render matrix: remove "view mode" options from context menu, because dropdown is always available
Routing/Grouping/Region render matrix: improve appearance with very long track/group/region names ^.
Routing/Grouping matrix: improve appearance of folder expand/collapse icons
SD2/PCM/RAW: support reading preferred file position from resource file (after importing .sd2 file, run "move to media source preferred position" to move imported files to their position in the original project)
Spectral edits: fix hit testing of the bottom edge of the last channel ^.
Spectral edits: increase the size of edge/corner hit test regions slightly
User prompts: use OK/Cancel for various proceed/cancel prompts rather than Yes/No ^.
Video: fix re-enabling DirectShow media reading on Windows using dshow_depr ^.
Video: fix video FX when applied to MIDI files that have a playrate greater than 1.0 ^.
Virtual MIDI keyboard: highlight notes being played by armed track inputs
VST: fix VST2 to VST3 migration state conversion
VST: fix VST2 to VST3 migration mapping for plug-ins with non-alphanumeric characters in their names ^.
VST: fix incorrect parameter changes being sent to bridged VST3 in certain instances
VST: avoid crashing reaper when a bridged VST3 crashes ^.
VST: do not show default preset name of 'Program 1' for plug-ins that do not have multiple programs
VST: improve locking behavior when loading presets ^.
Windows: fix shortcut creation for DX plug-ins ^.
WMF: use .m4a extension when rendering audio-only MPEG-4 files

REAPER v6.66 - August 17, 2022
I have people skills!!
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

FX: fix UI glitches when showing offline FX in chain view (6.65 regression) ^.
Linux: improve behavior of listview clicks to listview images and manager fields
Linux: improve listview column alignment to match other platforms
Master metering: fix RMS stereo loudness readout when RMS window length has been customized
Media: support Sound Designer II audio files (add .sd2 extension so REAPER can identify the file)
Media: when loading .sd2 files on macOS, copy resource fork to plain file "mediafile.sd2.rsrc" for portability to non-macOS systems
Media: import files with .L/.R/.pcm/.raw extensions as raw PCM audio
Media: when importing raw PCM audio (including .sd2), use best-guess audio parameters and warn with instructions about how to fix incorrect playback
MIDI: fix stuck notes when using replace recording ^. ^.
Notation editor: fix various drawing glitches ^.
Notation editor: improve hit testing of dynamics/custom notation ^.
Preferences: move media/video and media/import preferences to separate pages
Project settings: fix enabling/disabling pan law gain compensation in project settings advanced tab (6.65 regression) ^.
Render: fix applying render fades when project start time is negative and also applying brickwall limiter ^.
Render: improve behavior of option to automatically increment rendered file name ^.
Routing/grouping matrix: improve appearance of folder expand/collapse icons

REAPER v6.65 - August 12, 2022
I have people skills!!
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Audio Units: fix support for AUv3 musical time/tempo/transport state callbacks
Automation items: fix behavior of action to split automation items without changing selection
Configuration files: fix various issues for FX shortcut/safemode/etc settings on plug-ins/themes with odd filenames
Envelope window: improve appearance of scrollbars with retina displays
FX: add option to use space key to start/stop transport in plug-in text edit fields ^.
FX: add oversample options to floating FX window context menu
FX: fix generic UI when last parameter is an enum
FX: improve syncing displayed value in generic UI ^.
FX: optimize performance with many docked-but-invisible FX chains ^.
FX: when changing compatibility settings, update all matching FX instances
FX: encode envelopes name in project file, for use when loading with FX offline ^.
FX browser: allow configuring defaults per-plugin of want-all-keyboard, TCP/MCP embedding, and oversampling
FX browser: move compatibility settings to submenu
Grouping Matrix: right-click in grouping matrix opens group settings dialog for already-selected tracks, rather than auto-selecting tracks
Linux: improve behavior of text edit fields with control-key shortcuts
macOS: support decoding .rx2 files on native Apple Silicon
Media: sort Insert Media file description/extension dropdown list in alphabetical order
Media items: fix flickering when moving media items across tracks and "automatically display affected envelopes" is enabled
Media Explorer: support typing in preview volume
MIDI Editor: actions to move edit cursor by grid respect snap settings
Mouse modifiers: add razor edit mouse modifier to move or tilt envelope (fine adjustment)
Pan: explicitly support sine taper, linear taper, and hybrid taper pan functions ^.
Pan: special case -3dB and -6dB pan laws to be exactly equivalent to constant power (-3.01..dB) and constant gain (-6.02..dB); preserve existing settings in existing projects
Pan: fix implementation of hybrid taper pan law when applying gain compensation
Pan: document ReaScript/API settings for pan law flags
Pan: simplify pan law preferences
Pan: fix pan function evaluation when playback is stopped ^.
Pan: improve calculation of hybrid taper pan law with certain manually entered pan laws (thanks ErBird) ^.
Pan: only list deprecated pan mode in pan law dialog if the project already has pan mode set that way
Razor edits: ignore razor edit areas on envelopes when running action to crossfade media items ^.
ReaGate: implement string-to-parameter conversion for threshold
ReaLimit: fix continuous automation recording ^.
Region/Marker Manager: fix display glitch when resizing window
Render: add post-render button to display rendered file in Media Explorer
Routing/Grouping/Render Matrix: dynamically adjust margins to fit text
Routing/Grouping/Render Matrix: add context-specific help, accessible via the (?) button
Theme: fix 3 small issues ^.
Theme: fix mixer send knob 150%-scaled image
VST: fix return value for IContextInfoProvider::setContextInfoValue
VST: add IContextInfoProvider3 support
VST: support IComponentHandler2::setDirty ^.
VST: improve space key behavior with various plug-ins (e.g. Softube)
WALTER: fix h (height) variable in tcp.fxembed context ^.
Windows: improve alt-key behavior relating to menu activation and cursor updating

REAPER v6.64 - July 13, 2022
Eight, eight, I forget what eight was for
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Batch converter: allow window to be resized to a smaller minimum height
GIF: fix memory leak when decoding files that have per-frame color maps
GIF: reduce memory use when decoding gif files with many frames
Help menu: sort documentation menu by filename ^.
JSFX: set undo point after calling set_pinmapper_flags()
JSFX: sstillwell/randomizer supports 0x90 velocity=0 note-offs ^.
JSFX: support automating and undo for user mix volume sliders in channel mapper plugin ^.
Master track: fix loudness meter readout tooltip
Media explorer: add loudness column, loudness calculation
Media explorer: add option to normalize preview volume to -12LU (adjusted for mono media if needed) if loudness has been calculated
Media explorer: add separate actions to calculate peak volume, loudness, or dry run statistics
Normalization: respect take channel mode when normalizing media items to target loudness ^.
ReaScript: add CalcMediaSrcLoudness function
Region manager: sort take markers in project time order
Region manager: support selecting marker/region by name by typing in list view on Windows ^.
Render: add menu item/action to display HTML render statistics with file paths hidden ^.
Render: display project title and author in HTML render statistics, if they are set
Render: display RMS-RA (RMS-based dynamic range) measurement when LRA (LUFS-based dynamic range) is not calculated
Render: if no render file name is saved with the project, command line and queued renders use the project name as the output filename ^.
Render: re-enable bounds dropdown if needed after loading render preset ^.
Render: simplify loudness statistic preferences
Render: improve render statistics calculation CPU usage
Render: support fade-in/fade-out length, shapes
Resampling: fix r8brain-free hang when used with invalid samplerates ^.
Theme: improve rounding for knob stacks ^.
Wave64: fix writing of floating point Wave64 files that lack channel ordering information (6.62 regression)
Windows: restore 6.61 alt-key behavior (to be revisited) ^.

REAPER v6.62 - July 1, 2022
I'm told it is pronounced "chaos"
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions window: update shortcut list when editing an existing shortcut
Automation: improve behavior when using write mode auto-reset at loop/end of project ^.
Batch converter: when preserving existing metadata, also attempt to convert to metadata schemes the target file format can accept ^.
FX: clearer description in FX I/O context menu of whether plug-in delay is compensated or not ^.
FX: improve parameter link behavior (midi CC and loading project, or linking with invalid parameters) ^.
FX: ensure FX parameter modulation/linking are preserved after undo after loading FX chains via external drag/drop ^.
Linux: auto-apply values entered into JSFX text fields
Linux: fix support for Shift+Space
Linux: improve submenu activation usability ^.
macOS/Linux: cleanup internal thread management, avoid potentially incorrect pthread_join calls
Media explorer: add support for column width/order presets (in column header right-click menu)
Media explorer: add actions to load column presets
Normalization: prevent media from going offline during normalization even if user switches focus away from REAPER ^.
Notation editor: fix occasional missing naturals ^.
Pan: fix UI glitches when changing pan mode ^.
Project markers: add menu item to select marker in Region/Marker Manager; display selected markers slightly differently in ruler
Razor edits: fix trim action when multiple razor edits exist on the same media item or automation item ^.
Razor edits: fix editing when partial measures exist in project ^.
ReaControlMIDI: fix incorrect parsing of leading 0s as octal ^.
ReaEQ: avoid tiny and unmeasureable changes to configuration state on load/save ^.
ReaEQ: improve realtime performance immediately following configuration load
ReaVerb: add text to indicate which file to browse for when deconvolving on macOS ^.
Render: add support for rendering between project markers
Render: improve speed of offline render with muted/unsoloed tracks ^.
Render: save/restore tail length with render presets ^.
Spectral edits: add mouse modifier to create new edits
VST: fix sample accurate parameter changes with bridged VST3 plug-ins
VST: round VST2 VstTimeInfo::samplePos to nearest sample ^.
WAV: allow writing FP with extensible multichannel speaker configuration
WAV: when writing non-PCM files, include extension size to conform to spec and prevent SOX from warning
Windows: avoid creating filenames that start with a space character ^.
Windows: improve behavior of space bar in edit controls (including plugin-created controls)
Windows: improve alt-key behavior relating to menu activation

REAPER v6.61 - June 17, 2022
Hot Carolina REAPER
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions: fix potential crash when running action to normalize selected items with no items selected
Drawing: various drawing integer overflow fixes with non-sensical values ^.
Envelopes: fix pencil-drawing take envelopes on stretched media items in certain situations ^.
FX: ensure FX parameter modulation/linking are preserved after undo after loading FX chains ^.
FX browser: include LV2i in Instruments list ^.
Master track: fix loudness meter readout tooltip label in mixer
Media explorer: add a hidden accessible text field for pitch detection output
MIDI: fix exporting type 1 MIDI that has both embedded cues and key signature changes ^.
MIDI: fix key signature export ^.
ReaSamploMatic5000: add Media Explorer options to set a MIDI note or channel to assign when inserting media into sampler, incrementing if inserting on new track
ReaSamploMatic5000: add Media Explorer option to assign MIDI note based on detected pitch when inserting media into sampler
ReaSamploMatic5000: when inserting into sampler and detecting pitch, assign sampler pitch start rather than note start (so the sample can be played at different pitches, correctly tuned)
ReaSamplomatic5000: add pitch detection
ReaSamplomatic5000: display note names for pitch offset
ReaSamplomatic5000: if sample detected pitch is out of range of pitch start parameter, add octaves to note start parameter as needed ^.
ReaSamplomatic5000: support sorting sample list by detected pitch
ReaSamplomatic5000: support typing in sample pitch
ReaSamploMatic5000: when inserting media from media explorer into an existing sampler instance, obey preferences to apply volume/pitch adjustment
ReaScript: fix Track/TakeFX_AddByName() matching existing instances when using FX-type prefix ^.
Recording: fix pre-fx/pre-fader output recording when live FX multiprocessing is disabled
Render: always display one momentary, one short-term, and one integrated render statistic in render dialog
Render: fully cancel render queue when user clicks "cancel all" ^.
Render: make clearer in preferences that either LUFS or RMS, both not both, will be calculated/displayed for a given period (momentary, short-term, or integrated)
Spectral edits: fix incomplete loading of certain complex shapes
Spectral edits: prevent resizing regions into entirely negative space
Spectral edits: when inserting a new edit, select the edit by default
Theme: hit test vol/pan/width labels last even when they are above other controls ^.
Undo: do not process deferred undo points if in the middle of a mouse edit
Video: fix some WMF decoding issues that were un-fixed by a different WMF decoding fix in v6.60
Video: hopefully improve WMF compatibility further
Video: fix performance/stability issues when using AVFoundation decoding on a track that does not use media buffering ^.
VST: improve initial size behavior with plug-ins that adjust size when UI opens (Kee Bass)
Windows: improve appearance of checked bitmap menu items (fades, note head shapes, etc)

REAPER v6.60 - June 8, 2022
Hot Carolina REAPER
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

API: extend hwnd_info hook API to allow disabling global hotkeys for a particular context
Crossfade editor: fix grouped item editing behavior when editor is open ^.
Envelopes: fix incorrect envelope edit when moving media items across tracks with ripple-all enabled and moving envelope points with media items ^.
FX: allow resizing FX windows beyond screen size on Windows
FX: improve automation-recording behavior with PDC when set to stop at end of time selection ^.
Grouping: when splitting grouped items, group all items that start at effectively the same time as the split point, rather than items that start after the split point ^.
macOS: disable automatic key equivalent localization on macOS 12.0+
Media explorer: new user-added columns default to "custom" rather than "read-only" ^.
MIDI: fix looped playback issues with partial blocks and multiple simultaneous note-ons
MIDI: if notation option "key signature changes affect all tracks" is enabled, embed key signature changes when exporting type 1 MIDI files ^.
Mouse modifiers: fix enabling/disabling snap modifier during drag while creating marquee or razor edit area ^.
ReaFIR: clamp manually-edited point gain to graph range ^.
ReaPlugs: improve end-of-touch automation support when tweaking sliders with keyboard/mousewheel
Recording: add per-track setting to record track output pre-FX or post-FX/pre-fader
Render: fix HTML render charts when files/markers/regions contain some special characters ^.
Render: slight memory use improvement when resampling during render
Splash: improve status messages when loading FX ^.
Splash: add option to skip splash screen animations on startup
Video: optimize opening of extra pooled audio decoders (do not try decode modes that previously failed)
Video: improve video preview display when using various edit modes ^. ^.
Video: improve WMF decoding compatibility ^.
Video: work around WMF bug when decoding certain files, by falling back to other decoders ^.
VST: automatically end touch automation recording if configuration window is closed
VST: improve plug-in scanning process (especially macOS NI plug-ins)
WALTER: using front for mcp.extmixer now brings extmixer background higher in the Z-order
Windows: fix issue when rapidly clicking new project tab toolbar button ^.

REAPER v6.59 - May 30, 2022
There Will Be REAPER Cushions
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions: add actions to move/copy contents of time selection to edit cursor ^.
Batch converter: add menu item to display converted file properties
Click source: fix saving default shape setting
Color theme: apply mute/inactive/locked theme overlay to outer margins of media item background images
Free item positioning: do not normalize media item heights when cut/copy/pasting to FIPM track ^.
FX: allow setting FX instance oversampling for multiple items at once in chain view ^.
FX: prevent unintended drag/drop of FX when quickly clicking on multiple track FX buttons in a row
Linux: fix crash on startup when loading docked FX ^.
macOS: fix appearance of modal windows when switching to/from dark mode ^.
macOS: when using default system output device, detect device changes (e.g. from plugging in headphones) ^.
Media explorer: add actions to sort file list by specific columns
Media explorer: display favorite state during searches ^.
Media explorer: support adding user-defined tags (any plain text, like "Instrument" or "Quality")
Media explorer: user-defined tags will be cached locally and can be written to media files for some media types
Metronome: correctly use default-project samples when creating a new project and previous project had samples set
MIDI editor: add undo points when changing time selection via alt+right drag ^.
Opus: when rendering, ensure user-entered bitrate is in range ^.
Opus: improve final packet rounding to minimize padding when encoding ^.
Opus: support encoding floating-point values greater than +0dB
Opus: use smaller default frame size when encoding
Performance: reduce audio thread interruptions when moving/copying contents of project regions
Razor edits: add mouse modifiers to select razor edit area and time together, in track, media item, and media item edge contexts
Razor edits: handle mouse modifier mapped to "no action" by passing through to underlying context
Razor edits: more precise peaks drawing at razor edit edges during mouse edits
ReaInsert: slight thread scheduling optimization
ReaScript: support GetMediaFileMetadata(src, "Generic:BPM") to get any existing BPM metadata
ReaVerb: fix channel tool total channel count configuration state save/restore ^.
Recent projects: add option to control whether projects are added to recent list when loading
Recent projects: add option to disable 'Save copy of project' being added to recent list
Recent projects: add option to have old project removed from recent list when using 'Save new version of project'
Render: when rendering MPEG-4, use .mp4/.m4v/.m4a extensions by default depending on whether audio/video streams exist (can be changed in render dialog if desired)
Render: improve normalization speed when rendering audio-only MPEG-4
Resampling: prevent excess RAM use when resampling during recording/render/bounce when output is mp3, opus, or MPEG-4/WMF ^.
Routing matrix: fix macOS resize drawing glitch
Save-as: convert/trim will now convert .m4a files ^.
Startup: detect when an incomplete upgrade/install occurred and warn user ^.
Theme: fix minor sidebar issue in default theme ^.
Theme: restore old display behavior of pre-version 5 themes with transparent media item background images ^.
Theme: update theme tweaker description for shared theme color ^.
Theme: fix corner case of parsing .] in WALTER ^.
Theme: treat 'scalar==vector' in WALTER comparisons as 'scalar==vector{0}' rather than 'scalar==0' ^.
Track routing window: fix display issues with UTF-8 localizations ^.
Video: allow encoding video-only m4v/mov when using AVFoundation
Video: fix potential use-after-free memory error when using video processors and multiple copies of the same source
Video: improve ffmpeg bitrate controls for various codecs
Video: support passing ffmpeg command line options directly when rendering
Video: simplify WMF encoding settings
VST: add option to allow multiple plug-ins with the same VST3 UID16 ^.
Windows: add projects to system-wide recent documents list on save

REAPER v6.58 - May 18, 2022
Now With More Phlogiston
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Auto-save: improve error messages ^.
Drag and drop: fix color of insert-new-track indicator text ^.
IDEs: use 6.53-style sorting for watch lists ^.
JSFX: update classic volume adjustment JSFX to use a step size of 0.1dB
LV2: support compatibility setting to ignore state-change notifications ^.
Media explorer: fix My Computer view when localized ^.
Media items: allow clicking item notes and item properties buttons on locked items
MIDI editor: fix mouse modifier to delete touched notes when moving mouse very slowly ^.
Performance: reduce redraws when moving mouse over envelope lanes
Razor edits: fix potential display flickering after certain actions/zoom/scroll ^.
Razor edits: fix potential incorrect drawing when zoomed in very far
Razor edits: add undo points when clearing selections
Razor edits: prevent selections from being lost when loading a project with missing media
ReaFIR: fix inconsistent processing of first block of audio
ReaScript: make Lua handling of unspecified Optional const char* parameters consistent with EEL2, other data types ^.
Render: support rendering region matrix via master ^.
Render: fix normalizing render when rendering video with WMF
Render: if render bounds set to "selected regions" and no regions are selected, render all regions
Render: improve render speed when rendering stems or regions via master ^.
Render: always display one momentary loudness measurement and one short-term loudness measurement in HTML charts
Render: optionally display project regions/markers in HTML charts
Render: remove option to render to .wmv or .wma files; there's no reason to use these file formats as containers for modern codecs ^.
Video: decode mono audio to stereo when using WMF
Video: fix various video decoding issues when using WMF ^.
Video: fix rendering embedded AAC 4-channel audio when using WMF
Video: fix rendering video with certain colorspace/size combinations when using WMF ^.
Video: support embedding multichannel audio in MP4 video when using WMF
Video: support rendering video-only or audio-only mp4 when using WMF
Video: improve error message when AVFoundation encoder fails to initialize
Video: support rendering multichannel AAC when using AVFoundation
VST: avoid duplicate entries when multiple instances of a VST3 UID16 are found with different filename parts ^.
VST: support scanning Windows .vst3 bundles that have the system filesystem attribute set ^.

REAPER v6.57 - May 7, 2022
Big Pasta
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Appearance: add separate preferences for drawing labels above media items, and hiding media item labels, at specific media item heights
Appearance: do not draw media item labels above the item if the item would be smaller than the label
Drag and drop: improve preview display when dragging to insert-new-track area ^.
Drawing: improve drawing performance with thousands of very small items (6.54 performance regression) ^.
FX: zero out PDC-compensated FX delay samples ^.
FX: show combined oversample rate in chain view when both chain and instance oversampling are used
FX browser: allow removing LV2-created categories ^.
lv2: support URL encoded filesystem specifications ^.
macOS: add gen_vol*_dark and gen_pan*_dark theme elements for macOS dark mode ^.
macOS: fix horizontal mouse drag on mixer send controls ^.
Media explorer: do not try to copy directories via drag/drop ^.
Media items: actions to activate previous/next/etc take do not affect locked media items
Media items: allow opening and editing per-take FX on locked media items, but not alt/opt+click to delete all FX
Media items: allow vertical autoscroll when moving/copying items using certain customized mouse modifiers ^.
Media items: fix take marker display with certain zoom settings ^.
Media items: improve interaction between item height preferences when using free item positioning ^.
MIDI editor: improve behavior of mouse modifier to delete all touched notes when moving the mouse quickly
MIDI editor: support loading raw sysex from file in sysex edit window
MIDI editor: use fixed-width font for sysex edit window
Notation editor: improve positioning of accidentals in chords ^.
Opus: ensure all samples are flushed to file when rendering at sample rates other than 48k
Peaks: fix various sample-level view glitches ^.
Performance: reduce realtime CPU use when repositioning edit cursor with playback stopped ^.
Performance: improve recovery from media buffering underruns when using heavy per-item processing
Preferences: include more information/help in video decoder details window
Razor edits: fix editing bug when razor edit contains MIDI items in project with timebase time and partial measures ^.
Razor edits: simplify display of pre-edited razor edit areas ^.
Razor edits: add mouse modifiers to move areas disabling or temporarily enabling ripple edit
Razor edits: fix mouse-position-dependent snapping ^.
ReaScript: increase precision of razor edit start/end position as returned by GetSetMediaTrackInfo("P_RAZOREDITS") ^.
Recent projects: add option to display customized project title (set in Project Settings/Notes) in recent projects menu and prompt ^.
Recent projects: add option to display either file part or full path in list
Render: fix issues with peaks and dither when channel counts are conformed by output (e.g. multichannel forced to stereo by CD or DDP render)
Render: respect option to add rendered files to project when preference enabled to return to render settings window after render ^.
Render: support rendering to mp3 (as primary or secondary output) when processing at sample rates higher than 48k
Render: when rendering selected regions, if no regions are selected, render all regions
Render: improve error message details
Theme: add theme elements for inactive takes, applied separately from elements for muted/not-soloed tracks/items
Timestretch: add new Rrreeaaa (polyphase synthesis) stretching mode, useful for artistic stretches
Undo: improve undo behavior for actions/scripts that did not previously set the correct undo flags
Video: support native decoding and rendering of .wma, .wmv, and mpeg-4 audio/video via Windows Media Foundation
Video: support embedding FLAC audio in WMF-encoded MP4/M4V (Windows 10 and later)
Video: improve performance when using video-only or audio-only media
Video: support encoding audio-only or video-only files with ffmpeg
Video: update Grid of Videos preset
Video: deprecate DirectShow video decode mode, must be manually re-enabled in preferences
VST3: clear all parameter info on kParamTitlesChanged ^.
WALTER: allow specifying mcp.extmixer and master.mcp.extmixer to front command

REAPER v6.56 - April 25, 2022
Banjo Telemark
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Media items: allow autoscroll when moving/copying items using certain customized mouse modifiers ^.
Media items: allow copying per-take FX from locked media items
Media items: do not allow opening, deleting, or copying to per-take FX of locked media items
Render: fix stereo/multichannel metering (6.55 regression) ^.
RF64: fix duplicate display of embedded cues ^.

REAPER v6.54 - April 19, 2022
Banjo Telemark
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions: account for reverse volume grouping when running action to adjust track volume ^.
Actions: add actions to move media items to/from hidden child track
ARA: update API to version 2.1, with ARM support
Audio Units: improve resizing behavior of AUv3 plug-ins
Audio Units: fix potential AUv3 crash when plug-in outputs MIDI events on Monterey
Audio Units: call AudioUnitUninitialize() when unloading
Batch converter: update display immediately after removing all files
Batch converter: fix in-place conversion for non-boot macOS volumes ^.
Free item positioning: fix minor time selection display issue ^.
Free item positioning: glued items inherit FIPM y-positioning
Free item positioning: improve interaction between free item size edits and mouse modifiers (remove hardcoded behaviors of some modifier keys)
Free item positioning: when recording in free item positioning mode, only adjust existing item y-positions if necessary
FX: add per-FX instance and per-FX chain oversampling options (if both chain and instance are set, the higher of the two is used)
FX: change Add-FX window pane configuration (horizontal vs vertical layout) via context menu, don't change configuration on double-clicking the divider
FX: improve value editing and default values for wet/bypass/delta envelopes
FX: when opening FX chain for a track that has no FX, by default show the Add-FX window rather than the empty FX chain window (option in Preferences/Plug-Ins)
Import: add option in Preferences/Media to target the top part of a track to insert new track(s) to receive the media
Import: on drag-import, offer to replace media source only if snapped start position of imported media is within an existing media item ^.
Logical sorting: improve sort order of various characters in Media Explorer and other windows (underscore, hyphen, number, UTF-8, alpha) ^.
Media buffering: update playback more promptly (bypass some media buffering) when changing item takes, mute states
Media explorer: add action to delete file with prompting
Media explorer: fix updating database metadata when database is not on the local filesystem
Media items: replace "show overlapping items in lanes" option with "offset overlapping items vertically"
Media items: add preferences for item vertical overlap percentage and opacity
Media items: add preference for minimum height to display peaks
Media items: change default item mix behavior to "items always mix", existing projects and user default project settings are unaffected
Media items: don't display cursor feedback when mouse is over controls of locked items
Media items: update mouse click prioritization to prefer opaque unselected items over transparent selected items (prevent clicking controls that are behind other items)
Media items: improve interaction between preferences to show/hide free item positioning, show/hide media item labels at certain track heights
Media items: locked items do not autocrossfade with unlocked items
Media items: prevent editing take envelopes when item is locked
Menus/Actions: update menus and actions to refer to "takes" instead of "take lanes", to avoid ambiguity
Metadata: support WAVEEXT channel layout tag "L R C LFE Ls Rs" instead of "L R C LFE Lsd Rsd" ^.
MIDI editor: fix editing left edge of notes, inserting new CC events, some other behaviors when editing looped item with start offset ^. ^.
MIDI editor: fix note velocity sweep-editing when moving the mouse quickly ^.
MIDI editor: reload custom .ReaScale function when opening a new project
MIDI editor: restore grid type properly in quantize window when quantizing with swing ^.
MIDI inline editor: improve action window targeting behavior ^.
Projects: support loading multiple projects in recovery mode ^.
Projects: master hardware outputs are saved with project default settings
Razor edits: add click-context mouse modifiers to move areas up or down without contents
Razor edits: improve stretch-editing automation items in ripple-edit mode ^.
Razor edits: razor edits on free item positioning lanes snap to item tops/bottoms, do not necessarily span the entire track height
Razor edits: add "razor edits affect all track envelopes", separate from "move envelope points with media items"
Razor edits: fix incorrect group selection edge highlight when razor editing
Razor edits: fix behavior when stretching right edge of razor edit with ripple edit enabled and automation items later on the track ^.
Razor edits: fix flickering display after running action to cut selected area of items ^.
ReaControlMIDI: increase length of sysex dump displayed in log from 1k to 8k bytes
ReaEQ: expose global gain as an automatable parameter
ReaInsert: do not allow processing if FX oversampling is used
ReaScript: add GetSetMediaTrackInfo("I_FREEMODE"), deprecate GetSetMediaTrackInfo("B_FREEMODE")
ReaScript: add GetSetMediaTrackInfo("P_RAZOREDITS_EXT"), to get/set free item positioning bounds
ReaScript: fix GetThingFromPoint handling of hidden envelopes ^.
ReaScript: fix reaper.AddRemoveReaScript() on Windows when script path contains forward slashes ^.
ReaSurroundPan: fix action to set input names from sending tracks when FX pin mapping has been customized ^.
ReaSurroundPan: improve display when configuration changes so that inactive channels/speakers are displayed in the list
ReaSurroundPan: when inserting as take FX, increase FX output pin count to match track channel count if needed ^.
Recording: respect option to always add takes to new recording when looping
Recording: when preference enabled to add recorded media at each loop, defer adding media during mouse editing ^.
Render: display graph of loudness values of rendered file in HTML statistics view
Render: apply PDC to rendered output when master track FX is set to ignore PDC or hardware-output-PDC
Reverse items: improve behavior of reverse items as new take with audioless video items ^.
Super8: allow up to 500ms of RDC
Tempo envelope: context menu action to insert point respects default point shape (linear or square, curved shapes are not allowed on tempo envelopes)
Tempo envelope: don't snap to beats when editing points if project snap is disabled
Tempo envelope: warn if user enters time signature numerators/denominators out of range ^.
Theme: add theme overlay color, blend mode for muted/unsoloed/inactive or locked media items and tracks
Track manager: display track channel count
Tracks/media items/razor edits: many internal changes to support future media item lane functionality
Video: fix behavior when enabling/disabling audio on all project video sources
Windows: add additional uninstall information to system

REAPER v6.53 - March 29, 2022
Banjo Telemark
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions window: improve warning messages when a key is mapped to an action that no longer exists
API: FX_SetParam/FX_SetParamNormalized do not send notifications when called from audio threads
Batch converter: fix reading output file format when running from command line ^.
Envelope window: make checkbox controls keyboard accessible
Freeze: fix freezing multiple tracks with non-overlapping media items and certain render preferences ^.
Freeze: when unfreezing an edited track, prompt user whether they would like to transform the frozen items
macOS: improve command shortcut display when the same menu item exists in multiple places ^.
macOS: improve keyboard focus behavior when focused window is disabled
macOS: improve return-key behavior for plug-in text entry fields
Media explorer: add themeable colors for media explorer grid/markers, pitch detection text
Media explorer: make toolbar keyboard accessible (tab to toolbar, left/right/space)
Media explorer: use media item background color for preview peaks background
Media explorer: prevent crash when previewing .rpp without proxy built (6.52 regression)
Metadata: support embedding images in ogg, opus files when rendering or converting
Metronome settings: improve accessibility of hardware outputs button
MIDI editor: fix behavior when drawing notes and humanize window is open ^.
MIDI inline editor: add missing actions to action list ^.
MIDI inline editor: fix marquee drawing bugs when mapped to left-drag
Peaks: fix building of peaks for section/reversed items (6.52 regression) ^.
Peaks: fix spectrogram calculation errors (6.52 regression) ^.
Peaks: improve quality of zoomed-out spectrogram display
ReaScript: add Main_SaveProjectEx, to save project or track template with a specific filename and options ^.
ReaSurroundPan: account for channel mapping when running action to set input names/colors from sending tracks ^.
Recording: improve behavior of note-ons sent during count-in (6.48 behavior restored) ^.
Subprojects: do not show project notes when rendering a project proxy
Tempo markers: respect mouse modifier when set to "no action" ^.

REAPER v6.52 - March 23, 2022
Banjo Telemark
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions window: match UK spellings of various words when searching
Automation items: when looping in latch mode, ensure there is an automation item to record into ^.
Batch converter: add option to force single-threaded processing
Batch converter: fix minimum window size when Windows display scaling is used ^.
Custom menus: fix menu after reset to default on macOS
FLAC: update to libflac 1.3.4
FX: fix display of ReaLearn UI on macOS
JSFX: fix channel mapper/downmixer text alignment on non-retina macOS displays
macOS: improve default extension behavior of save dialog on newer macOS systems ^.
Media Explorer: add option, toolbar button to display detected pitch while previewing files
Media Explorer: add actions, option to adjust pitch by +/- 1 cent
Media Explorer: support toolbar/menu feedback for actions to set pitch to X semitones
Media Explorer: shift+drag applies the previously selected pitch knob behavior (rather than always applying either continuous or semitone changes)
Media Explorer: improve transition smoothness when adjusting preview pitch via actions
Media Explorer: add preference to preview .RPP files
Media Explorer: add preference to suppress auto-render of proxy when previewing .RPP files ^.
Media Explorer: when renaming .RPP file, also rename matching .RPP-PROX file ^.
Media Explorer: fix context menu issues when media explorer is opened via keystroke
MIDI editor: add actions, menu items to load/unload .ReaScale files
MIDI peaks: fix under-draw issue in continuous scrolling [twtr=1499242508328443904]
Notation editor: action to identify chords considers all notes playing, not just notes that start at the target time position ^.
Notation editor: allow user-provided chords (from .ReaScale files) to override default chord names ^.
Notation editor: don't show track/measure settings menu on left-click ^.
Notation editor: treat click on measure start area as a click on the first beat of the measure, even if there is a key signature or time signature change
Opus: fix memory leak when writing files and resampling
PCM: extremely minor tweaks to rounding when writing PCM in all formats
PCM: improve LSB rounding when writing 24-bit and (17-23)/24-bit encodings of WavPack/FLAC ^.
PCM: fix incorrect truncation when writing 16-bit WavPack files ^.
Peaks building: display remaining file statistics rather than remaining items
Peaks building: improve behavior when reordering tracks/items
Peaks building: improve multiprocessing use (4 or more cores when available)
Peaks building: optimize spectral peaks/spectrogram calculation
Project settings: add dropdown menu to support setting/resetting project start offset and project start measure
ReaFIR: add automatable parameter to adjust gain of EQ/threshold/noise profile curve
ReaPlugs: show longer, more descriptive parameter names
Render: add action to re-display statistics from most recent render in web browser
Render: add option to display/not display RMS in render statistics
Render: add option to automatically return to render setup window when render is finished ^.
Render: enable "save settings" button when changing render tail setting
Render: ensure progress bar and stats are updated after rendering very short regions
Render: gray out add-metadata button when "embed metadata" is unchecked
Render: greatly improve render speed when rendering many regions at once
Render: avoid extra work relating to updating status in dock on macOS
Text drawing: fix cropped glyphs for some fonts/italics combinations ^.
Theming: in themes that overlap controls and track icons, draw track icons below controls
Wildcards: support $channels wildcard in render, batch converter, and bounce
Windows: add legacy_filebrowse=1 .ini file option to use old file browsing open/save API for accessibility purposes

REAPER v6.50 - March 3, 2022
People say nothing is impossible, but we do nothing every day
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

API: allow accelerators to hook keyboard for more windows including mixer, navigator, etc ^.
Batch converter: support converting multiple files in parallel, utilizing multiple CPUs
Batch converter: improve responsiveness and RAM usage when converting a large file list
Batch converter: display the number of files and directories in the file list
Batch converter: display progress bar if conversion takes more than a short time
Batch converter: add when adding directory to file list, prompt to include subdirectories as well
Batch converter: add option to use source subdirectory structure to create output directories
Batch converter: add option to overwrite original files
Batch converter: add option to suppress notification when finished
Batch converter: add "save settings" button (does not save file list)
Batch converter: reorganize controls to separate settings that are not included in presets
Batch converter: include dither, noise shaping settings with presets
Batch converter: add preset menu item to clear all converter settings
Batch converter: add context menu actions to fit file list columns to screen, open input or output path, display input media properties
Batch converter: after canceled conversion, convert and remove buttons offer to affect only converted/not-yet-converted files, or all files
Batch converter: change default output file pattern to "$source-converted"
Batch converter: delete incomplete output file on user cancel
Batch converter: don't embed project-specific metadata
Batch converter: preserve very long metadata correctly
Batch converter: support $track, $tracknumber, $itemnumber wildcards, which will resolve to the project state at the time the media item was added to the file list ^.
Batch converter: update $samplerate wildcard correctly when changing sample rate
Batch converter: allow FX to change processing channel count via pin connector dialog or JSFX channel mapper/downmixer
Batch converter: fix lost FX tail setting when closing/reopening dialog
Defaults: set default master track pan mode to stereo balance for new projects
Defaults: save/load master track pan law, pan mode with default project settings
FX: allow JSFX channel mapper/downmixer to change monitoring FX processing channel count
FX: improve behavior of FX drag/drop and TrackFX_CopyToTrack() etc when copying FX to a later slot on the same chain ^.
FX: fix incorrect project save/load of parameter modulation and linking when applied to ReaPlugs (6.48 regression)
Media: improve zoomed-in peaks performance, especially on compressed media
Media: improve performance when using large block sizes and small media buffer settings
Media explorer: fix peaks display build restarting when seeking with output routed to a track ^.
Media explorer: improve seek behavior when autoplay, start-on-bar, and tempo matching are all enabled
Media explorer: refresh display correctly after completing search ^.
MIDI: do not remove duplicate note on/off events on import ^.
MIDI: send note-off for active notes when seeking ^.
MIDI: fix incorrect event duplication when exploding certain MIDI content by channel ^.
MIDI: improve tick-to-sample rounding
Mouse modifiers: display and group media item lower half actions similarly to media item actions in preferences dropdown
ReaScript/JSFX: fix displaying strings containing multiple newlines in a row ^.
Render: ensure peaks display is fully updated for each rendered region
Render: fix enabling/disabling render loudness statistics from completed render dialog
Undo: ensure undo point is created after running action to remove content behind items ^.
VST: report channel index namespace context to plugins ^.
VST: fix some misbehaving UI sizing plugins ^.

REAPER v6.48 - February 20, 2022
People say nothing is impossible, but we do nothing every day
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions window: fix issue with SWS cycle action editor on macOS/Linux (Windows will require sws update) ^.
Custom actions: fix adding actions to custom action via keyboard
Custom menus: fix support for more than 32 submenus per menu
Custom menus: fix support for more than 1024 menu items per menu
Custom menus: in customize menus/toolbars window, leave OK button enabled even if there have been no changes ^.
FX envelopes: copy/move envelopes correctly between instances of ReaSurroundPan with different configurations ^.
JSFX: channel_mapper uses dropdown instead of +/- buttons to set number of channels
Knobs: improve vertical alignment of wet/dry knobs
macOS: disable input event throttling by default
macOS: fix ExecProcess() handle leakage ^.
macOS: fix knob background drawing after switching to/from dark-mode
macOS: fix Metal issue where an occluded window would end up stale on M1/macOS 12
Media explorer: cancel metadata edit if file list is scrolled
Media explorer: prevent unnecessary scroll-to-left when browsing
Media item properties: update volume/pan slider on double-click ^.
Media item ruler: always label item start and end if possible ^.
Media items: fix possible incorrect calculation when running action to clear and recalculate auto-stretch at project tempo changes
Media items: fix possible stretch marker corruption when applying auto-stretch at tempo changes ^.
Media items: recalculate auto-stretch markers when undoing tempo envelope edits ^.
Media items: set default normalization mode to peak for new users
OSC: send track width when in balance pan mode ^.
Preferences: search function also searches mouseover help text
ReaLimit: rename "link" control to "constant gain"
ReaLimit: set default threshold and ceiling both to 0dB
ReaScript: do not run scripts from cwd rather than reascript path ^.
ReaScript: IDEs allow changing font name via ide_font_face= in reaper.ini
Render: fix persistence of preference to embed XMP markers ^.
Render: fix rendering to mp3 when sample rate is set higher than 48k ^.
Render: support jumping to loudest sample in project after render (including dry run render)
Takes: fix theme preference to display colored bar on active take when empty, not-displayed take lanes exist ^.
VST: set ChannelContext channel index context correctly for track 1 ^.
VST: fix various UI sizing quirks

REAPER v6.47 - February 11, 2022
In favor of any flan-related tagline
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions: improve performance with large numbers of custom actions
Actions: increase maximum number of custom actions/reascripts
Actions: improve sizing behavior of actions window with langpack-adjusted button sizes
CPU metering: add option (FX chain and performance meter menus) to view CPU utilization as 1.0c = one core fully utilized
Envelopes: do not select following envelope point when deleting via mouse click ^.
Glue: improve handling of fades that overlap with other items ^.
JSFX: fix Volume Adjustment plugin smoothing the first playback block ^.
macOS: improve performance of bridged plug-ins
macOS: refresh various controls when switching to/from dark mode ^.
macOS: run media/anticipative FX worker threads in realtime/audio workgroup if Time Critical priority is set (may be useful for M1 Pro CPUs)
macOS: fix Cmd+A in metadata edit, explorer, and track manager fields
Markers: fix importing markers from .csv when marker names contain quotation marks ^.
Media explorer: add customizable toolbar
Media explorer: move "insert media", "auto-play", "start on bar" controls to default toolbar
Media explorer: actions to tempo match half-speed or double-speed act as toggles
Media explorer: action to show media properties will display properties for last selected item if there is no current preview media
Media explorer: add action to show/hide toolbar
Media explorer: add optional media information box
Media item properties: double-click always resets take volume to unity or pan to center
Media item properties: prevent normalize button from creating multiple windows
Media items: add action to calculate loudness of selected items not including FX or track settings
Media items: don't display render window VU meters when calculating loudness of selected items via dry run render
Menus/Toolbars: replace Save/Close buttons with OK/Cancel/Apply
Metadata: support encoding of very long/complex metadata strings in projects ^.
MIDI: handle splits and edge adjustments properly when MIDI items span partial measures ^.
MIDI editor: move edit cursor on actions to navigate to previous/next note
MIDI editor: improve non-synchronized playback behavior when changing project tempo
MIDI learn: revert to pre-6.37 behavior of allowing targeting non-visible FX parameters ^.
Notation editor: fix scrub mouse mapping ^.
Playback: disable monitor signal fade-out on stop when preferences are configured to play FX tails on stop
Project bay: fix display of shell VST3 plug-ins loaded by UID16 ^.
Razor edits: display envelope value when editing, in addition to % change ^.
Razor edits: fix inadvertently setting envelope point shape to linear on toggle envelopes ^.
ReaScript: add midi_init() which allows re-initialization of single MIDI devices
ReaScript: improve GetMediaFileMetadata() support for long strings
ReaScript: MIDI_GetEvt/Note/CC/TextSysexEvt with negative event index now return false
ReaScript: support longer input to GetSetProjectInfo_String("RENDER_METADATA") ^.
Render: add checkbox to only normalize files that are too loud ^.
Render: add menu items (under render dialog stats button) to change which render statistics are displayed
Render: allow trailing spaces in directory names on macOS/Linux ^.
Render: fix reset of normalization mode/channel count when undoing certain actions (6.43 regression) ^.
Render: preserve very long metadata when rendering ^.
Resampling: fix incorrect processing at end of item in r8brain free mode ^.
Theme: improve display of 4 digit track numbers when using default theme
Undo: fix undo of markers edited in ripple all and various nudge actions ^.
Video: add project_timeoffs variable
Video: fix incorrect restart of peaks building when editing project during peaks build ^.
Video: improve text overlay preset (can also display timecode, add fit background to text parameter, change defaults)
Volume readouts: better distinguish between values very close to 0dB and 0dB exactly
WALTER: add trackidx (0 is master, 1 is first track, <0 is unknown/invalid), ntracks (<0 if invalid) for track contexts
Windows: fix signing of 32-bit executables and include git revision in win32 build
Windows: prevent opening multiple "set media item playback rate" dialogs
Windows: output usage help to stdout (if available) as well as displaying in a popup window

REAPER v6.46 - January 19, 2022
The Gang Makes a DAW
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Automation: fix potential incorrect automation when envelopes disabled outside of automation items ^.
Batch converter: fix normalization (6.44 regression) ^.
Batch converter: resolve item-related wildcards properly when converting a media item that originated in a different project ^.
Control surfaces: fix OSC control of FX wet/dry knob ^.
FX: add actions to clear delta solo for all FX on selected tracks or all FX in the project
Import: add cancel button to multiple media item import dialog
JSFX: fix set_pin_mapping() high-bit issue
macOS: fix arrow key keyboard navigation issues for various windows (6.43 regression)
macOS: fix keyboard focus after closing transport selection/bpm edit boxes
macOS: improve appearance of routing matrix in dark mode and default theme
Media items: fix adjusting media to tempo suggested by filename or metadata when inserting via action
Media items: add actions to normalize items to common gain, or separately, using most recent settings
Media items: show warning or error (depending on context) when some items could not be normalized
Metadata: add ASWG dialogue projection level field
Metadata: add OGG, Opus to displayed list of render formats that support Vorbis metadata
Metronome: fix count-in issue at 180bpm 3/4 ^.
MIDI: add actions to reload track support data (bank/program files, notation, etc) for individual MIDI items or all items in the project ^.
MIDI editor: improve scroll behavior when adjusting zoom ^.
MIDI editor: improve zoom to content action behavior ^.
MIDI inline editor: improve default note view sizing
mp3: close .reapindex files when media is set offline ^.
ReaScript: Lua built-in print() function output is visible using DebugView on Windows ^.
ReaScript: fix incorrect fuzzy matching in TrackFX_AddByName() etc ^.
ReaScript: improve gfx_blit() documentation ^.
RS5k: fix incorrect resampling at end of sample (most obvious with r8brain free)
Theme: fix layout actions for single-character layout names ^.
Tracks: if tracks are removed while renaming a track in TCP/MCP, close edit field
VST: do not allow scanning root directories on macOS/linux (revert 6.44 change) ^.
WavPack: fix incorrect truncation in 16-bit mode ^.
Windows: fix DirectX plug-in preset menu
Windows: fix new VST path addition on 64-bit

REAPER v6.44 - January 7, 2022
The Gang Makes a DAW
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions: add "erase" as a default synonym for delete/clear/remove
Actions: do not warn on program startup if too many custom actions exist (only warn when creating)
Control surfaces: fix CSURF_EXT_SETSENDVOLUME notifications when in write mode and fader-scaled envelopes
Custom action editor: fix entering certain characters on macOS ^.
Glue: if format supports BWF, write start offset when exploding multichannel audio to new files ^.
JSFX: fix memory bounds checking on aarch64/armv7l ^.
JSFX: fix gfx_showmenu() related issues (deadlock when undo point added, possible crash when MCP embedded) ^.
JSFX: if REAPER has an external editor configured for .jsfx, use for open in external editor button
JSFX: improve 32-bit x86 implementation (consistent rounding with other architectures)
JSFX: scripts can write to #dbg_desc to write debug messages visible on main plug-in UI ^.
JSFX: show code sections in IDE right-click menu
JSFX: show context information about built-in variables in IDE
JSFX: do not allow export_buffer_to_project() to be called from @slider ^.
JSFX: allow override of refresh rate using options:gfx_hz=60 etc
JSFX: add options:gfx_idle to allow @gfx section to run when UI is closed (detectable via gfx_ext_flags having 2 set)
JSFX: add options:gfx_idle_only to allow UI-less plug-ins to run @gfx code at idle
Keyboard: fix various cross-platform key aliasing corner cases
Linux: prevent closing windows via close button when a popup menu is open ^.
macOS: add per-theme option to not use themed window colors when in dark-mode (enabled by default theme)
macOS: improve performance of Live FX multiprocessing, especially on M1 systems
Media explorer: improve selection behavior after navigating with arrow keys on Windows
Media items: add option to close item notes window on enter key
Media items: save item notes when closing item notes window via action
Media items: add support for various loudness measurements (LUFS, etc) when normalizing media items
Media items: when normalizing multiple items to an integrated loudness value, support either normalizing each item separately or normalizing the combined (sequential) output of all items
Metadata: fix setting XMP marker metadata ^.
MIDI editor: add action to insert note at edit cursor without advancing
Pan: fix manual entry of pan values when preference is set to display pan in dB ^.
Projects: improve behavior relating to project notes flags and loading projects in REAPER 6.38 and earlier ^.
Projects: on new project without saved project settings, set recording/render format to 24-bit wav
Razor edits: do not delete/cut/copy razor edits when cursor focus is on track control panels
ReaEQ: add Parallel Band Pass filter mode ^.
ReaScript: add CalculateNormalization function
ReaScript: do not apply render-config changes when calling GetSetProjectInfo in get mode on rendering configuration ^.
ReaScript: do not defer indefinitely when calling reaper.defer() with no parameters from Lua ^.
ReaScript: properly support passing binary-safe strings to extension-registered functions ^.
ReaSurroundPan: correct 9.1.4 speaker arrangement, add 9.1.6 ^.
ReaSynth: fix extra sine oscillator when portamento is used ^.
ReaSynth: fix stuck note when portamento is used in certain instances
Render: ensure final master render peaks are displayed after normalizing
Render: fix files left open when normalization/limiting is interrupted ^.
Render: fix render peaks display when normalizing and negative project start time offset exists ^.
Render: fix saving of presets with normalize enabled affecting old presets ^.
Super8: fix recording glitches that could occur during looped project-synchronized playback ^.
Super8: support exporting media into project via MIDI CC when UI is not open
VST: scan %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Common\VST3 on Windows
Windows: fix listview drawing glitches when editing values and scrolling ^.
Windows: support very long pathnames (note: for shell browsing/etc to work with these, the LongPathsEnabled registry key must be set)
Windows: improve display responsiveness of progress bars

REAPER v6.43 - December 21, 2021
Everything is Broken
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (15MB installer)

macOS Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (21MB DMG)

macOS Universal (25MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions: warn when command ID exhaustion occurs due to too many custom actions or ReaScripts
Actions: when adding/editing key bindings, put new binding at front of list
Actions: add "open" as a synonym for display/view/show
ARA: update SDK to version 2.00, with ARM support
Batch converter: include more types of metadata when "preserve metadata" enabled
Batch converter: retain display column widths when reopening
Batch converter: support video normalization/limiting
Big Clock: improve font size for HMSF view on Linux ^.
Big Clock: when display is too long to fit in window, left-justify
CAF: support reading/writing .caf (Core Audio Format) media files
Command line: support loading .RfxChain/.fxb/.fxp/.vstpreset files to new tracks
Command line: support render normalizing and brickwall limiting from command line interface
FLAC: support decoding additional sample bit depths ^.
FX: allow dragging/pasting .fxp/.fxb/.vstpreset/.RfxChain files into chain window, to create new FX instances or change preset of existing instances
FX: when dragging .RfxChain files from OS, auto-create new tracks if necessary, replace existing FX if alt key held
JSFX: produce parse error on unknown number suffixes or incomplete hexadecimal strings (also affects ReaScript and video processors)
JSFX: fix default focus of plug-in UIs on Linux ^.
JSFX: fix get/set_pin_mapping() behavior on ARM systems ^.
JSFX: fix win32 pow() issue with older non-Intel processors ^.
Linux: improve special-key binding mode focus behavior
Linux: fix moving non-native plug-in windows from docked to undocked FX chains, etc
Linux: improve handling of numeric keypad control key shortcuts (note: may require manually re-binding non-keypad control key shortcuts, which were previously improperly encoded)
LV2: fix loading of plug-ins that have duplicate rdf "seeAlso" links ^.
macOS: now distributed in three flavors: Universal (x86_64/ARM64), x86_64 optimized for macOS 10.14 and earlier, and i386
macOS: dark mode appearance tweaks for render status and media item fade menus ^.
macOS: fix dark mode default behavior on Monterey ^.
macOS: fix text label appearance after dark mode/light mode change on Catalina-Monterey
macOS: fix possible crash on exit when previously failed to load a VST3
macOS: fix video display issues when retina is disabled in preferences ^.
macOS: improve special-key binding mode focus behavior
macOS: improve cross-OS up/down/home/end key mapping compatibility
macOS: improve handling of numpad enter key
macOS: improve keyboard behavior in nudge window
macOS: improve video colorspace conversion support on arm64
macOS: improve keyboard shortcut descriptions in menus for various keys ^.
Media explorer: add action to focus search field, Ctrl+F/Cmd+F by default
Media explorer: add action to reset preview pitch
Media explorer: add configurable preview crossfade
Media explorer: add pitch/rate knob behavior options to options menu
Media explorer: always search in enabled metadata fields regardless of whether searching a database or file folder
Media explorer: add option to read file metadata if not already cached when searching file folders
Media explorer: display metadata for files during search, even if searching in metadata is disabled
Media explorer: fix possible crash after updating peak volume metadata ^.
Media explorer: force browser to refresh after completing search ^.
Media explorer: support editing some metadata for .RPP files
Media explorer: support running custom actions from customized menus
Media explorer: when dragging media into project, respect media explorer setting to preserve pitch when changing rate or tempo-matching
Media items: multiple notes windows can be open at the same time
Media items: action to open item notes acts on all selected media items, closes notes windows if they are already open
Media items: support resizing item notes window
Media items: support word wrap in media item notes
Media items: word wrap text display within empty item if set, don't scale text below default size
Menus: preserve consistent keyboard shortcut display when multiple shortcuts assigned ^.
Metadata: first tab of project metadata dialog lists only elements that are supported by multiple schemes, rather than every known element
Metadata: include link to official specification for various schemes on file metadata dialog
Metadata: rename "Title" category to "Main"
Metadata: support ASWG metadata
Metadata: support CAF channel layout metadata
Metadata: support displaying and embedding BEXT version 2 metadata
Metadata: support renaming presets
Metadata: support sorting project metadata dialog by description, value, or key
MIDI notation and inline editor: support custom actions/reascripts in customized context menus ^.
Notation editor: prevent unnecessary scrolling after some actions
Notation editor: snap to key when inserting note at mouse cursor ^.
Peak building: improve UI responsiveness while building peaks
Peak building: improve peak building speed using background threads
Peaks: fix crash when using spectral peaks/spectrogram on a media file which is recording in another tab
Performance: avoid interrupting audio when removing tracks with open send windows
Project bay: fix creating folder in automation items tab ^.
Projects: hold shift to open recent project in new project tab
Project save: improve validation of saved project size to prevent poor behavior with Google Drive
Razor edits: add option in Preferences/Project/Media Item Defaults to overlap and crossfade when finalizing razor edits
Razor edits: rename "Move envelope points with razor edits" preference to "Razor edits affect all track envelopes"
Razor edits: scroll view to new cursor position after cut/copy/paste
Razor edits: add preference to always trim content behind razor edits to Preferences/Project/Media Item Defaults
Razor edits: improve behavior of overlapping razor edits on a single track when "razor edits affect all track envelopes" enabled
Razor edits: fix behavior when auto-creating new tracks during razor edit ^.
Razor edits: fix fade drawing glitch when media items and razor edits are offscreen left ^.
ReaPlugs: fix filter positioning on samplerate change for ReaDelay and ReaVerbate ^.
ReaPlugs: fix sidechain filter issue in ReaGate and ReaComp (introduced in 6.37)
ReaScript: add bandpass type to TrackFX_SetEQParam, etc
ReaScript: Envelope_GetParentTrack/Take always return index/index2 in Lua
ReaScript: Fix GetUserFileNameForRead() when called with forward slashes on Windows ^.
ReaScript: GetEnvelopePointEx/GetEnvelopePoint/Envelope_Evaluate always return all output parameters in Lua
ReaScript: improve ident strings for VST plug-ins (include VST2 and VST3 IDs)
ReaScript: Lua functions do not type-check parameters which are output-only
ReaScript: make output-only parameters optional in EEL2 when possible
ReaScript: ReaLimit supports Track/TakeFX_Get/SetNamedConfigParm for THRESHOLD, CEILING, TRUEPEAK
ReaScript: save/load script and "P_EXT:" extension data for the master track ^.
ReaScript: TimeMap_curFrameRate() always returns dropFrame in Lua
ReaScript: Track/TakeFX_GetPinMappings/IOSize always return all outputs in Lua
ReaSurroundPan: add 9.1.4 speaker setup
Region/marker manager: improve import of regions in H:M:S:F format ^.
Render: add option to automatically write peak/loudness statistics into rendered file metadata
Render: fix rendering video using ffmpeg with mp3 audio encoding
Render: handle resampler latency properly at end of file when applying dither or using secondary render format
Render: optionally save render output directory with presets
Render: support embedding WAVFORMAT_EXTENSIBLE and CAF channel layout tags in render metadata ^.
Render: support normalizing/limiting video files
Ruler: increase tick mark resolution to prevent potential skipped gridlines when using 1/32 triplets
Samplerate conversion: add r8brain free mode (courtesy Aleksey Vaneev of Voxengo)
Samplerate conversion: reorder and rename various modes
Samplerate conversion: improve dynamic varispeed playback quality
Scrub: improve ballistics
Scrub: improve samplerate conversion quality, other behaviors
Take FX: correct pin mapper help text to clarify that take FX can receive audio from any take channel, but not track channels
Time: fix display of very large values in sample scale
Tracks: rename track playback offset setting to media playback offset ^.
Video: add OpenGL display output support for Windows and Linux
Video: fix audio encoding with ffmpeg 4.4
Video: add input_match() and input_matchi() helpers for video processors
Video: allow setting take section/reverse in media item properties for video files with no audio or audio disabled ^.
Video: improve synchronization behavior with output display offset and project varispeed ^.
VST: keep full VST3 GUID in reaper-vstplugins.ini and reaper-vstshells.ini
VST: hide and allow re-scan of shell-plugin instances which previously failed to scan
WAV: display WAVFORMAT_EXTENSIBLE channel assignments in media source properties
Wildcards: support start time, tempo, time signature wildcards in filenames when consolidating or gluing
Windows: catch more cases where disk writes fail at end of file due to disk error/full
Windows: fix assigning key bindings for some keyboard layouts/extended keys ^.
Windows: support global overrides for media keyboard keys
Windows: support separate key bindings for NumPad Home/End/etc (falling back to non-NumPad bindings)
Windows: workaround wine bug with NM_CUSTOMDRAW on checkboxes (includes actual check in CDDS_PREPAINT)
Zoom: add preference to center vertical zoom on top of view (does not scroll), remove preference to center on top visible track (which scrolls)

REAPER v6.42 - November 16, 2021
Right Click Everything
Downloads:

Windows (13MB installer)

Windows x64 (14MB installer)

macOS Intel (18MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (15MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

macOS ARM64 (12MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Config export: encode .zip files with UTF-8 filename encoding for third party unzippers ^.
Media explorer: display .RPP start tempo rather than project tempo setting ^.
MusicXML export: improve encoding of .mxl with UTF-8 filenames
Notation editor: avoid vertical scrolling when inserting note via action ^.
Project settingss: fix project notes edit box on macOS ^.
Video: support loading FFmpeg/VLC on Windows when path contains UTF-8 characters

REAPER v6.40 - October 30, 2021
Fully Fungible
Downloads:

Windows (13MB installer)

Windows x64 (14MB installer)

macOS Intel (18MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (15MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

macOS ARM64 (12MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Metronome: avoid possible crash when adjusting metronome settings with empty take lanes in the project

REAPER v6.39 - October 29, 2021
Fully Fungible
Downloads:

Windows (13MB installer)

Windows x64 (14MB installer)

macOS Intel (18MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (15MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

macOS ARM64 (12MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Automation: fix editing automation items for FX parameters with inverted range ^.
Command line: support both -template and filename arguments ^.
FX browser: include more JSFX in Cockos category when not showing JSFX descriptions
JSFX: greater precision for $e and $phi
Linux: fix fullscreen behavior (6.37 regression) ^.
Linux: improve main window fullscreen behavior for owned windows
Linux: make initial focus of various windows (e.g. performance meter) match that of macOS/Windows
Media explorer: add action to rename file
Media explorer: display metadata for .RPP (REAPER project) files
Media explorer: fix restarting playback from non-zero position when changing playback rate ^.
Media explorer: respect project option to preserve pitch when changing rate in new items when importing media via action with no rate adjustment set
Media explorer: update display after setting/unsetting files as favorites
Media explorer: improve restoring focus state when navigating folders
Metronome: add actions to set metronome speed to 1x, 2x, 4x
Metronome: support 2x or 4x click speed multiplier
Metronome: update click source peaks display when updating metronome settings or click source properties
MIDI: send all-sound-off messages in addition to all-notes-off
Mouse modifiers: add modifier to adjust fade-in/fade-out curve with relative edge edit ^.
Opus: update to opus-1.3.1, opusfile 0.12
Project: add title field in Project Settings/Info dialog, accessible to render, metadata, etc wildcards as $title
Project notes: support optional word wrap
Razor edits: fix occasional incorrect group selection edge highlight when razor editing
Razor edits: add preference to always trim content behind razor edits to Preferences/Project/Media Item Defaults
ReaControlMIDI: send all-sound-off messages when clicking all notes off button, show all-sound-off messages when logging all-notes-off
ReaPlugs: ReaSynth/ReaSynDr/ReaVoice/RS5k respond to all-sound-off messages
ReaScript: add MIDI_GetRecentInputEvent() for enumerating recent MIDI input events
ReaScript: deprecate GetSetProjectAuthor, use GetSetProjectInfo_String(PROJECT_AUTHOR) instead
ReaScript: add support for GetSetProjectInfo_String(RECORD_PATH_SECONDARY)
ReaScript: MIDI_SetAllEvts() allows setting program change/channel pressure with 3-byte encoding
ReaVerb: add Convolve mode to Channel Tool
ReaVerb: Channel Tool supports forcing the total channel count of impulse response
ReaVerb: support setting channel offset directly when adding an IR file item
ReaVerb: support drag/drop of impulse file into plugin
Render: improve support for non-ascii filename characters in HTML render statistics display
Routing windows: improve size/position of channel selection boxes ^.
Subprojects: write =START time to rendered file as BWF preferred start position
Theme: fix button margin issues with gen_ images and DPI scaling ^.
Theme: improve mixer meter positioning ^.
Theme adjuster: fix macOS-arm64 retina drawing
Theme adjuster: improve usability on vertically-constrained displays ^.
Track meters: exclude all-sound-off from MIDI activity indicators
Track meters: add option to measure LUFS on first two channels only
VST3: fix MIDI data passthrough ^.
Web interface: improve non-Apple mobile-web-app-capable meta tags for various pages
Windows: fix drag and drop with experimental multimonitor aware v2 hidpi mode ^.
Windows: ignore alt-key mouseup when using alt+mousewheel in arrange view ^.
Windows: installer now always installs JSFX library

REAPER v6.38 - October 17, 2021
Engruntling users since 2005
Downloads:

Windows (13MB installer)

Windows x64 (14MB installer)

macOS Intel (18MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (15MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

macOS ARM64 (12MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Loudness Meter: add options for writing automation inverted and selecting single output value
macOS: improve textfield behavior with certain key mappings in menu items ^.
Media explorer: separate multichannel peaks display by one pixel
ReaComp/ReaGate: perform extra validation on multichannel mode configuration state
ReaEQ: fix UI update issues when loading presets on Windows
ReaEQ: update graph display when resizing and analysis is disabled ^.
ReaScript: fix potential crash when hit testing over TCP mono button ^.
ReaScript: fix TakeFX_GetParamFromIdent ^.
ReaScript: hit test functions now detect master.tcp.mono etc
ReaVerb: fix incorrect processing on very sparse non-mono signals (e.g. click sources) ^.
ReaVerb: fix reverb generator crash with zero-width (6.37 regression) ^.
ReaXcomp: fix UI update issues when loading presets on Windows
Render: localize "dry run" text
Theme: add mcp_fxembed scalar to WALTER ^.

REAPER v6.37 - October 12, 2021
Engruntling users since 2005
Downloads:

Windows (13MB installer)

Windows x64 (14MB installer)

macOS Intel (18MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (15MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

macOS ARM64 (12MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions: duplicate selected items obeys item grouping, creates new groups when originals are grouped ^.
Actions: fix quirks with 'Expand selected track height, minimize others' action and mouse mapping ^.
Actions: update solo button after MIDI CC solo state action ^.
Actions: fix some soft-takeover corner cases for midi CC actions
API: improve resolution and remove center-snap logic from CSurf_OnPanChange*() and CSurf_OnWidthChange*()
Audio Units: preserve input audio for instrument plugins (same behavior as VST and LV2 instrument plugins)
Audio Units: fix creating shortcuts to renamed plug-ins via FX browser
Audio Units: support IO menu in pin connector dialog
Automation items: fix possible hang on linux/i686 ^.
Batch converter: add brickwall limiter option
Batch converter: prevent occasional incomplete normalization with very short files ^.
Envelopes: add advanced project preference (default enabled) to prevent bezier envelope segments from being affected by preceding/following non-bezier points
Envelopes: correct invalid envelope point shape data when loading project (protect against buggy scripts or extensions)
Envelopes: fix potential odd behavior when editing FX parameter envelopes with inverted range ^.
FX: support delta solo (difference between dry and wet signal) for VST, LV2, AU, JSFX
FX: enable delta solo via alt+click or right-click on wet/dry knob, or I/O menu in pin connector dialog
FX: add action to toggle delta solo for last focused fx
FX: show FX shortcut actions in action list even when FX is not available
FX: fix "only when selected/focused/visible" preference when using controller soft takeover ^.
FX browser: display error when FX shortcut creation fails
FX browser: improve behavior adding to folders when using search
FX browser: scan for new LV2 plug-ins when refreshing list via F5 ^.
FX pin connector: change track channel count via dropdown, rather than +/- buttons
FX pin connector: support changing plug-in channel count, mulit-mono, multi-stereo configuration for ReaFX that support it
FX pin connector: support configuring requested VST3 bus size
JSFX: fix loudness meter peak value display for certain channel counts ^.
JSFX: improve Oscilloscope scrolling smoothness
JSFX: increase Oscilloscope maximum view length to 5s
JSFX: Loudness Meter integrated values (LUFS-I, LRA, RMS-I) only update when playing back
JSFX: support regular peak (in addition to true peak) metering in Loudness Meter
JSFX: update Flanger preset ^.
Linux: allow mousewheel to scroll menus/combobox lists
Linux: improve appearance of menus and list/tree views ^.
LV2: fix creating shortcuts to plug-ins via FX browser/script ^.
LV2: improve support for localized plug-ins, use LANGUAGE environment variable to choose language for plug-in, parameter, and preset names ^.
LV2: notify UIs when time:beatsPerMinute or core:freeWheeling parameter changes occur
LV2: support pin connector dialog I/O menu option to zero out unmapped channels
macOS: fix Big Sur save dialog behavior when exporting to project types other than .RPP ^.
Media explorer: inform user if maximum number of user-customized metadata columns has been added ^.
Media explorer: localize dialog to add user metadata column
Media explorer: remember original playback start position when stopping (not pausing) preview, restart playback from that position
Media explorer: when selecting new media, if both autoplay and show peaks for selected media are disabled, previous playback will continue
MIDI: reset CC/pitch on playback stop is now enabled by default
MIDI: fix processing sysex messages when the terminating byte is a standalone packet ^.
MIDI editor: add custom note order/visiblity mode (ctrl+drag note key in named notes view)
MIDI editor: do not quantize behavior of "drawing or selecting a note sets new note length" preference ^.
MIDI editor: import/export of note names includes custom-view ordering information if set
MIDI editor: obey option for Preferences/Keyboard/alt key to main menu on Windows
Pan: improve rounding behavior when adjusted via control surfaces/actions
Project bay: read source file attributes from cache if possible, to improve loading time for bays that contain many retained files
Razor edit: allow pressing copy modifier key after mousedown, but before initial mouse move ^.
Razor edit: fix envelope edits affecting automation items incorrectly ^.
ReaComp: support up to 64 channels, optional multi-mono and multi-stereo modes
ReaEQ: support various channel metering options
ReaEQ: support up to 64 channels
ReaEQ: update display after resizing when not processing audio
ReaFIR: support up to 64 channels, optional multi-mono and multi-stereo modes
ReaFIR: support various channel metering options
ReaGate: support up to 64 channels, optional multi-mono and multi-stereo modes
ReaPlugs: most built-in plug-ins now support multichannel/multi-mono/multi-stereo modes
ReaLimit: add new program-dependent brickwall limiter plugin
ReaLimit: support embedded UI
ReaLimit: support up to 64 channels, optional multi-mono and multi-stereo modes
ReaScript: add MIDIEditor_EnumTakes()
ReaScript: add TakeFX/TrackFX_GetParamIdent/GetParamFromIdent
ReaScript: ensure envelope point shape input is valid
ReaScript: for Lua, make final string parameter to various Get functions that return strings optional
ReaScript: MIDIEditor_GetTake and MIDIEditor_EnumTakes return nil if the MIDI editor is empty
ReaScript: Track/TakeFX_GetNamedConfigParm() can retrieve fx_name, fx_type, fx_ident
ReaSurround: update I/O size immediately when changing speaker configurations while bypassed
ReaVerb: add Channel Tool to allow combining multiple files by channel
ReaVerb: support up to 64 channel impulses
ReaVerb: load channel count configuration from presets
ReaVerb: reverse impulse modifier can apply to all channels or single channel
ReaXcomp: support up to 64 channels, optional multi-mono and multi-stereo modes
Recording: improve recording behavior with time selection autopunch and PDC ^.
Render: add brickwall limiter option
Render: add support for renaming render presets
Render: display gain reduction in render peaks display when limiting
Render: fix peaks display with very short files
Render: report rendered file length, full file path in HTML render statistics
Theme: fix display of 200% layouts on retina displays
Track panels: improve behavior of FX parameter knobs for toggle parameters
Transport: fix issues with docked/undocked transport and screensets ^.
Video: fix gfx_deltablit documentation ^.
VST: fix initializing pin connector when plugin I/O increases
VST: improve hard-reset behavior when used with plugins that only support soft-reset
VST: improve naming of unnamed programs
VST: improve program handling when loading state for plugins that support chunks (e.g. Maize Sample Player)
VST: improve support for VST2 plug-ins that do not support effGetProgramNameIndexed
VST: run preset loading synchronously with audio processing
VU meters: don't show clip indicators for not-soloed tracks ^.
VU meters: consistent rounding and clip indicator behavior across all peak metering
VU meters: display overs if record-input signal is >= +0dB, or playback signal is > +0dB
VU meters: improve appearance when using DPI-mapping ^.
VU meters: fix RMS calculation with certain sample rates ^.

REAPER v6.36 - September 3, 2021
Sometimes science is more art than science
Downloads:

Windows (13MB installer)

Windows x64 (14MB installer)

macOS Intel (18MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (15MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

macOS ARM64 (12MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

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 ^.
FX browser: add menu item to duplicate JSFX
FX browser: add option to always search all FX when using search field ^.
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 ^.
Render: automatically filter control characters from filenames on render targets ^.
Tracks: option to disable track metering affects only selected tracks
Video: fix rendering at framerates lower than 1/video_cache_size ^.
Video: update media item labels when loading user presets on a take-FX video processor ^.
VST: improve VST3 handling of 0x90-encoded note-offs ^.
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 ^.

REAPER v6.35 - August 25, 2021
Sometimes science is more art than science
Downloads:

Windows (13MB installer)

Windows x64 (14MB installer)

macOS Intel (18MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (15MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

macOS ARM64 (12MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Action list: optionally match synonyms of common words when searching for action names ("display" matches "show", etc)
Action list: pull list of synonyms from langpack actionlist_synonyms section
Actions: use correct tempo when running action to insert tempo marker without opening tempo marker editor, and time signature is not x/4 ^.
Automation: obey grid/snap settings when using freehand draw
Automation: restore 6.33 behavior when adding a single point via freehand draw ^.
FX: add pin mapping dialog actions to clear or reset mappings
FX: correct floating window titles in various cases ^.
General: fix logical sorting issues in region manager and elsewhere ^.
JSFX: support linked stereo channels in channel mapper user mix mode
Language packs: improve behavior with dialog scaling and existing langpacks in render window ^.
Linux: fix issues with non-US numeric locales and plug-ins that reset locale
Linux: improve save-as window default extension handling ^.
Linux: show multi-instance options in preferences ^.
Marquee zoom: allow tracks to be sized smaller in order to fit on screen ^.
Master VU: fix LUFS-S meter text readout when set to display current level rather than max or LRA ^.
Media items: support entering numeric values for take volume/pan in properties window
Media items: reset snap offset if right edge resized less than offset ^.
Metadata: fix embedding CART intro/segue markers that occur at the very start of the rendered file
Metadata: support embedding project markers/cues as XMP when rendering (for Premiere, After Effects, etc)
Metadata: fix invalid memory access from unknown ETCO type in ID3v2 parsing
MIDI: encode gradual tempo changes on export as MIDI text messages that REAPER can interpret when reimporting (other applications will ignore these messages and import stepwise tempo changes)
Performance: fix potential excessive UI CPU use/hang when closing project when edit cursor is offscreen ^.
Project bay: fix dragging automation items into project ^.
Project bay: fix memory leak when running action to restore source media
Project bay: increase project length if needed when dragging media items from project bay ^.
Razor edits: fix editing envelope point that occurs at the start of an automation item ^.
Razor edits: support stretch markers in media items that contain empty take lanes, if there is at least one audio take ^.
ReaComp: fix legacy parameter reset when using factory default preset
ReaComp: hide deprecated parameters if they are not being used (accessible via compatability parameter in generic UI)
ReaScript: add GetSetMediaTrackInfo support for getting/setting track VU mode
ReaScript: add PCM_Source_BuildPeaks to allow scripts to build peaks for PCM_sources
ReaScript: prevent crash from incorrect use of PCM_Source_Destroy()
ReaSurround / ReaSurroundPan: allow plugin to support higher I/O channel count than the track or media item
ReaSurroundPan: label an elevated speaker in the center of the room as "overhead", other elevated speakers as "height"
ReaSurroundPan: when LFE channel is selected, allow changing input faders to gain, but disable the channel text edit box
Render: display up to 512 vu meters, limited to the screen height
Render: iterate for increased precision when normalizing to LUFS-I
Render: master and track meters display levels after sample rate conversion, if any ^.
Render: more informative error message if target file cannot be created
Render: optimize loudness calculations
Render: separate render statistics header for clearer display when rendering many files
Render: support dithering primary and secondary render format to different bit depths ^.
Render: support enabling LUFS-I/LUFS-M and LRA/LUFS-S statistics separately
Ripple editing: improve behavior of actions to duplicate items within razor edit or time selection ^.
RS5k: improve default value for minimum velocity
Tempo markers: support tempo basis other than 1/4 note (affects displayed BPM number only, not metronome or tempo envelope display) ^.
Theme: add meter_strip_h_rms image, consistently use loudness meter theme elements for tracks that are set to meter loudness
Tracks: support mono master/parent send, via single-channel entries in parent channels dropdown in track routing dialog
Track VU: add metering settings submenu to track context menu as well as track VU context menu
Track VU: support metering RMS, RMS stereo, LUFS-M, LUFS-S
VST3: fix incorrect handling of IContextMenuItem flags
Windows: avoid potential splash screen hang when caught in an invalidate/postmessage loop ^.

REAPER v6.34 - August 7, 2021
Backstory!
Downloads:

Windows (13MB installer)

Windows x64 (14MB installer)

macOS Intel (18MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (15MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

macOS ARM64 (12MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Automation: improve behavior when using freehand draw and snapping to grid ^.
FX: improve default window position saving behavior ^.
LV2: fix incorrect event timestamps when passing control messages from UI to plug-in
Master VU: clear loudness meter when clearing peaks, even for background projects
Master VU: faster loudness meter response when preference enabled to reset meters on play/seek ^.
Metadata: add "Parts" category
Metadata: support embedding ID3:TPOS field
Peaks: add action to reset project peaks gain
Peaks: rename actions to adjust peaks display zoom (rather than peaks view gain)
Peaks: separate peaks display slightly for multiple channels
Preferences: fix persistence of IDE editor doubleclick option ^.
Project files: default to using quotes for all filenames to improve legacy script compatibility ^.
Razor edit: improve paste behavior when pasting across projects with different tempo maps ^.
Razor edit: improve marker/region behavior when using ripple-all ^.
Razor edit: improve undo behavior when editing FX parameter envelopes ^.
ReaScript: add I_LASTY/I_LASTH for GetSetMediaItemTakeInfo
ReaScript: fix sticking gfx_getchar('/') etc on Windows ^.
Render: add options to disable calculating loudness statistics
VST3: fix RealGuitar on Win64 ^.
VST3: fix incorrect parameter setting in response to MIDI CCs (fixes Reason 11 issues) ^.
Wave writing: fix corrupt output when writing large Wave64 files with metadata
Wave writing: improve reading/writing of Wave64 metadata
Wave writing: support writing INFO metadata scheme to RF64 files

REAPER v6.33 - July 26, 2021
Backstory!
Downloads:

Windows (13MB installer)

Windows x64 (14MB installer)

macOS Intel (18MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (15MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

macOS ARM64 (12MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Dockers: fix FX chain docker restoration when loading projects (requires re-save of existing projects)
Dockers: improve default ordering of new tabs
FX: add option to use modal window default positioning for newly created FX chain/floating FX windows ^.
FX: allow pin mapper dialog to be very large when first opened if the track has many channels
FX: improve UI-destruction order when closing floating windows (for buggy plug-ins)
FX: remove global option for plugin bridging, bridging options should be controlled per-plugin via FX browser
FX pin connector dialog: show tooltips when there are more than 4 track channels or 4 FX ins/outs
ID3v2: fix potential memory access errors when loading media
JSFX: ensure IDE is not completely offscreen when opening ^.
JSFX: prevent reentrancy of @gfx code when TCP embedded and adding media on Windows ^.
Loudness metering: update loudness calculation more frequently in master VU and render statistics
Master VU: improve preferences for loudness metering and readout value
Media explorer: fix inserting section of file when project setting enabled to copy media to project directory ^.
Media explorer: show folders with system file attribute on Windows ^.
Media item properties: avoid small changes to take volume/pan when clicking but not dragging fader ^.
Media item properties: improve sizing behavior when scrollbar is visible
Project files: allow filenames to contain quotes (on platforms other than Windows)
ReaScript: add IDE color preset configuration to ReaScript tab
ReaScript: add IDE option to have doubleclick function name jump to function
ReaScript: fix incorrect IDE interpretation of certain alt-gr keys ^.
ReaScript: IDE supports shift+tab without selection ^.
ReaScript: fix return value of InsertAutomationItem function when option enabled to trim automation items behind edits ^.
ReaSurroundPan: update display consistently after editing custom speaker name ^.
Render: add post-render action (under Stats button) to jump to position of first rendered sample over +0dB
Render: add post-render action (under Stats button) to display render statistics in web browser
Render: add separate actions to calculate mono loudness of selected tracks via dry run render
Render: display lufs-m max, lufs-s max, lufs-i in web browser render statistics or API request
Render: display file format, file length, and channel count (if mixed) in web browser render statistics
Render: display overall render progress indicator
Render: display sample rate and channel count during dry run render
Render: don't display file extension during dry-run render
Render: fix dither/noise shaping when rendering stems ^.
Render: fix normalizing stems to common gain based on master normalization when rendering multiple regions
Render: fix secondary render sample rate and improve normalization when project sample rate is different from rendered sample rate ^.
Render: if true peak is calculated, don't display regular peak in render statistics (everything is still displayed in web browser render statistics)
Render: improve peaks display when rendering very short files
Render: inform user when normalizing may cause relative levels of rendered files to change
Render: make it clearer when normalization is enabled
Render: support normalizing stems to common gain based on normalizing master mix, even if not rendering master mix
Render: when rendering multiple files, display as much path as needed to disambiguate files
Routing windows: avoid small changes to track and send volume/pan when clicking but not dragging fader
Routing windows: improve mousewheel behavior on volume/pan faders ^.
Routing windows: improve display when shift+dragging I/O buttons in track panels to create multiple sends
Scrub: allow configurable maximum jog rate of 1x/2x/4x/8x (default 2x)
Scrub: prevent audio dropouts when adding undo point that does not affect items
Tempo map: action to create measure from time selection will not create a tempo envelope if the user cancels the operation ^.
Theme: fix customizing master track VU readout text color in TCP ^.
Tracks: avoid small changes to track pan/width when clicking but not dragging faders
VST3: bridged plug-in improvements (fixed reference count leaks, improved bridge exiting on macOS)
VST3: bridged plug-ins support IMidiLearn, IMidiMapping interfaces
Wildcards: fix $namenumber wildcard ^.
Wildcards: support marker/region names consisting of separated name=value pairs using $marker(name)[separator] and $region(name)[separator] (see wildcard help)
Windows: installer can optionally configure Windows to save REAPER crash dumps

REAPER v6.32 - July 9, 2021
Good news, everyone!
Downloads:

Windows (13MB installer)

Windows x64 (14MB installer)

macOS Intel (18MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (15MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

macOS ARM64 (12MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Batch converter: allow multichannel FX processing when using more than 4 channels ^.
Envelopes: fix FX automation envelope defaults when moving media items ^.
Loudness meter: add parameter to control whether output loudness values are written as automation
Loudness meter: add parameter to control internal meter update rate
Master meter: when set to mono, display identical RMS stereo loudness on the right meter channel ^.
Render: disregard setting to save copy of project before rendering when dry-run rendering
Super8: fix stereo export in certain instances ^.
Wildcards: improve help for $marker(name) and $region(name) wildcards
Windows: fix VST3 loading from paths with UTF-8 characters (6.30 regression) ^.

REAPER v6.30 - July 3, 2021
Good news, everyone!
Downloads:

Windows (13MB installer)

Windows x64 (14MB installer)

macOS Intel (18MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (15MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

macOS ARM64 (12MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions: add actions to calculate loudness of selected items/tracks/selection via dry-run render
Actions: do not modify collapsed state of selected non-folder tracks when cycling through collapsed state for folder tracks
API: fix deadlock with MIDI_GetAllEvts() and buffer too small ^.
Automation items: add preference to pool/unpool automation items when split due to media item edit or razor edit
Automation items: filter out duplicate points on load ^.
Automation items: fix hang/slowness when adjusting very large automation items ^.
Batch converter: support normalizing to target peak or loudness level when converting
Consolidate: support wildcards in consolidated file name
Envelopes: fix incorrect minuscule gain at unity on fader-scaled volume envelopes ^.
Envelopes: fix unexpected behavior when moving multiple sets of envelope points with no transition time between selected and unselected points ^.
FX: improve AU:/VST: prefix removal for shortened FX names ^.
FX: improve reporting of play state/position when using "stop playback at end of loop if repeat is disabled" ^.
IDE: ctrl+doubleclick on function name jumps to function, normal doubleclick selects function name
JSFX: plugins can now detect if embedded in TCP/MCP via built-in variable gfx_ext_flags
JSFX: add loudness meter plugin (supports true peak, RMS, LRA, LUFS-M, LUFS-S, LUFS-I)
JSFX: export_buffer_to_project() can take a planar_pitch parameter to allow exporting planar multichannel content
JSFX: plugin can dynamically show/hide sliders via new slider_show() function
JSFX: optimize x86_64 (now supporting SSE), aarch64, armv7l code generation
LV2: fix multichannel non-default pin mapping state on project load ^.
macOS: improve appearance of fade menu items when using dark mode ^.
macOS: improve JSFX, Video Processor and EEL2 ReaScript performance when running under Rosetta2 on M1-powered macs
Master metering: support LUFS-M, LUFS-S, LUFS-I, LRA loudness metering in mixer and/or track control panel
Master metering: apply loudness display gain but not display offset to loudness readout numbers
Master metering: improve mixer meter RMS/loudness readout appearance contrast
Master metering: support oversampled peak metering (true peak)
Media explorer: fix formatting of absolute paths from tree browser on linux/macOS
Meters: more informative tooltips
MIDI: fix duplicate CC values being sent at the start of linear/bezier curves
MIDI: fix editing event properties from list editor with filter applied ^.
Project bay: improve drag-drop preview and cursor behavior
Project bay: improve handling of MIDI items and tempo changes (existing retained items will have to be re-retained to include QN information) ^.
Razor edit: fix context menu inconsistency when razor edit mouse modifiers are remapped ^.
Razor edit: fix positioning of initial transition envelope point ^.
ReaScript: add GetEnvelopeInfo_Value(I_SEND_IDX) and GetEnvelopeInfo_Value(P_DESTTRACK)
ReaScript: add GetSetMediaTrackInfo(B_SOLO_DEFEAT) and GetSetMediaTrackInfo(B_AUTO_RECARM)
ReaScript: add GetSetProjectInfo_String(RENDER_STATS) to retrieve statistics for the most recently rendered files
ReaScript: add GetSetProjectInfo_String(RENDER_METADATA) to retrieve list of all defined project metadata identifiers ^.
ReaScript: add GetSetProjectInfo_String(RENDER_NORMALIZE) and GetSetProjectInfo_String(RENDER_NORMALIZE_TARGET)
ReaScript: support running a caller-specified action before returning render statistics (see API help for details)
ReaTune: enable embedded TCP/MCP view for tuner
Render: support normalizing rendered files (except video) to target peak, true peak, or loudness (RMS or LUFS)
Render: allow rendering to primary/secondary of the same type (e.g. wav 16-bit and 24-bit, $bitdepth recommended in wildcard)
Render: apply dither/noise shaping to secondary render format if enabled and format supports
Render: calculate and display peak, true peak (when enabled), clips/overs, RMS, LUFS, LRA (loudness range) for each rendered file
Render: draw peaks on first pass of 2nd pass render
Render: ignore preference to auto-close render dialog if normalizing or dry-run rendering
Render: optionally mark clips/overs (samples over +0dbFS) in render peaks display
Render: show first actual file used when rendering to multiple files that are autodisambiguated
Render: show percentage complete in render processing dialog
Render: support dry run rendering (everything is processed as normal, but no output files are written)
Render: support normalizing rendered stems to master mix peak or loudness
Render: support substituting user-provided string for master $track wildcard
Render queue: add button to cancel all remaining renders ^.
Super8: allow controlling loop length, synchronization mode via automatable parameters
Super8: fix cell alignment ^.
Super8: fix off-by-one-sample error in first-pass recording
Super8: add per-channel length-division setting
Super8: when adding loops to project, export linked channels as stereo file
System: update zlib to 1.12.11 and libpng to 1.6.37
Tracks: prevent tiny volume change on initial track fader click ^.
Undo: fix state adding when inserting new MIDI or empty items via action/menu item (6.24 regression) ^.
Video: add option to choose which monitor is used for fullscreen display
VST3: support bridging/firewalling of VST3 plug-ins
VST3: add IPlugInterfaceSupport, for plugins to request compatibility features
VST3: add IMidiLearn interface support
VST3: avoid threading conflicts when processing expression and keyswitch information
VST3: internal threading changes to MIDI controller and program change handling
VST3: require bundle/module/dll entry-points to match Cubase/VST3 spec
Windows: improve installer behavior when choosing Portable checkbox after editing installation path ^.

REAPER v6.29 - May 18, 2021
Owl Stretching Time
Downloads:

Windows (13MB installer)

Windows x64 (14MB installer)

macOS Intel (18MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (15MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

macOS ARM64 (12MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions: rename "Envelope: Clear envelope" to "Envelope: Clear or remove envelope"
API: add hwnd_info hook for improved plug-in global hotkey integration
API: fix typo in documentation of IReaperUIEmbedInterface ^.
API: GetSetProjectInfo_String() supports TRACK_GROUP_NAME:x
API: run hookpostcommand2 hooks for reascripts and custom actions
Automation items: action to create new automation item uses razor edit areas if they exist
Envelopes: add "remove envelope" action to envelope control panel context menu
Envelopes: fix possible redraw of media lane envelopes when opening project ^.
FX: fix monitoring window persistence when using new undo point option ^.
FX: improve embedded FX update frequency when mouse-editing
FX: improve docked mixer visibility restoration when adding FX via docked FX browser ^.
FX: fix visual display of TCP/MCP parameter knob when parameter min/max is reversed
JSFX: allow export_buffer_to_project() to use 64 channels
JSFX: effects may now request samplerate for opened media using file_riff(fh,nch='rqsr',srate=desired_samplerate);
macOS: rename ARM build to REAPER-ARM.app, Intel 64-bit to REAPER.app, update volume labels of disk images
Media explorer: add option to preview through track named "Media Explorer Preview"
Media explorer: fix re-sorting randomized file list after running action to set file as favorite ^.
Media explorer: fix searching after renaming file
Media explorer: refresh display after resetting column order to default
Media explorer: support adding additional user-specifiable metadata display columns
Media items: when mouse-moving selected area of grouped items, group the remaining right-hand side of items separately from the left-hand side, for consistency with cut/paste behavior
Notation: fix key snapping on first beat of local key signature change ^.
Notation: improve edit cursor position rounding when using snap to samplerate
Notation: assign current voice when inserting notes via "insert note at nearest A/B/C/etc" actions ^.
OSC: support touch status for up to 2048 tracks ^.
Project bay: show bypass/offline status for FX that are unavailable
Project metadata: disallow spaces in IXML element identifiers
Razor edit: add razor edit envelope editing behaviors
Razor edit: add mouse modifiers to expand or compress envelope range, relative to average value or toward top/bottom
Razor edit: ensure that pasted media items remain grouped and pasted automation items remain pooled across tracks
Razor edit: fix media item display after pasting razor edit area and zooming ^.
Razor edit: skip hidden envelope lanes when marquee-creating razor edit areas with "move envelope points with razor edits" disabled
Razor edit: when editing or cutting, group the remaining right-hand side of items separately from the left-hand side ^.
Razor edit: when mouse-copying items, create new groups if necessary
ReaPlugs: display more significant digits of ReaDelay/ReaPitch pan position ^.
ReaScript: show file/line number for Lua calls to ReaScriptError()
ReaScript: improve Lua ReaScriptError() behavior when called from extension-added functions, allow ! prefix to stop script execution
ReaScript: support "NUMCHANNELS", "NUMSPEAKERS", "RESETCHANNELS" for ReaSurroundPan via Track/TakeFX_SetNamedConfigParm
ReaScript: ReaSurroundPan FX_Get/SetNamedConfigParm("NUMSPEAKERS") will interpret a value like "6S" as 6-channel surround, "8I" as 8-channel ITU, "12A" as 12-channel Auro, etc
ReaSurroundPan: add new 2D/3D surround panner plug-in
ReaSurroundPan: supports common speaker spatial arrangements and user-customizable arrangements up to 64 inputs/outputs
ReaSurroundPan: add actions to display ReaSurroundPan embedded in TCP or MCP
ReaSurroundPan: support axis linking (forcing edits to a particular shape on the z-axis)
ReaSurroundPan: support editing anchor channel via controller, but does not record automation
ReaSurroundPan: support per-channel delay
Ruler: add option to display region name when region start is offscreen
Ruler: add option to hide region number if region is named
Spectral edits: fix issue with playback starting after item loop ^.
Spectral edits: improve performance with large numbers of spectral edits
Super8: allow drag-drop of samples to channels
Super8: improve layouts when UI is resized very wide or very tall
Super8: improve MIDI-control behavior when same note/CC is assigned to a channel's record and play controls
Theme: add razor_env, razor_env_l, razor_env_r cursors
Video: improve default ordering of 2x2 matrix preset ^.
VST3: actually support third-party embeddable UIs via IReaperUIEmbedInterface interface ^.

REAPER v6.28 - April 22, 2021
Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
Downloads:

Windows (13MB installer)

Windows x64 (13MB installer)

macOS Intel (18MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (15MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

macOS ARM64 (12MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (9MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Accessibility: improve behavior of spacebar in actions list and managers with spacebar-navigation option set
API: ListView_GetItemText() supports owner-data listviews on non-win32 ^.
FX: allow JS/Channel Mapper-Downmixer to be renamed ^.
FX: fix mapping track channels above 32 using the FX pin connector dialog ^.
FX: avoid zombie bridge processes in various corner cases
macOS: improve behavior when scanning VST plug-ins that present modal UI
Marker/region manager: fix undesired periodic marker deselection
Marker/region manager: improve selection behavior when removing markers/regions
Marker/region manager: move edit cursor when seeking during playback
Media explorer: fix tempo sync when inserting media on new track ^.
Media explorer: improve readability of embedded cues
MIDI: enforce some reasonable maximum MIDI message and per-block list sizes (128MB and 256MB initially)
MIDI: fix unlikely but possible incorrect handling of PDC+MIDI
Razor edit: properly handle moving and pasting areas that contain MIDI items when project timebase is set to "time" ^.
Razor edit: restrict selected area to 0.001 rather than 0.01 seconds
Render: fix display of render vu meters with panned mono media ^.
Track manager: fix keyboard navigation quirks on macOS with mirrored selection enabled

REAPER v6.27 - April 11, 2021
Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
Downloads:

Windows (13MB installer)

Windows x64 (13MB installer)

macOS Intel (18MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (15MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

macOS ARM64 (12MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (9MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Dither: fix half-bit DC offset ^.
FX: add option to not add undo points when closing FX windows ^.
FX: improve pin connector window
FX: fix persistence of take FX processing channel count when processing only 2 channels on a track with more than 2 channels
JSFX: add Channel Mapper-Downmixer plugin
JSFX: add option in pin connector dialog I/O menu to pass through or zero out unused output channels
JSFX: support drawing vertical text via gfx_setfont flag 'z' (does not work with system/bitmapped font)
JSFX: allow Webdings/Wingdings for gfx_setfont() use on Windows [twtr=1376339905408815106]
macOS: add prefs/general/advanced option for window fullscreen button to activate fullscreen rather than OS fullscreen
macOS: add prefs/general/advanced options for rounded buttons and big sur listview margins
macOS: disable macOS 10.12+ Window tabbing menu items
Media item channel mapper: control/command-click a mapping to set exclusively for that channel
Media items: add action to set channel mapping for selected media items
MIDI: output multiple note-offs for the same channel/pitch if there are multiple sequential note-ons
Project time offset: preserve maximum resolution when setting project time offset to edit cursor position ^.
ReaScript: support drawing vertical text via gfx_setfont flag 'z' (does not work with system/bitmapped font)
ReaScript: allow Webdings/Wingdings for gfx_setfont() use on Windows [twtr=1376339905408815106]
ReaScript: correct documentation for Set/GetMasterTrackVisibility
ReaTune: fix potential crash with certain parameter settings and UI open ^.
Render: resolve $samplerate wildcard correctly when mixing at one sample rate but rendering to another ^.
TCP FX List: fix multi-column scroll extent issue ^.
Timeline: truncate seconds and samples display rather than rounding, for consistency with H:M:S and H:M:S:F display
Timeline: when displaying minutes:seconds and a project start offset exists, center ruler major tick marks on project time zero rather than the start of the timeline
Track manager: display track channel count
VST: add I/O menu item in FX pin connector dialog to increase host channel count to match plugin
VST: add option in pin connector dialog I/O menu to pass through or zero out unused output channels
VST: cache VST3 parameter/bus/latency information for improved performance with yabridge and plug-ins
VST: improve behavior when VST3 plug-ins call restartComponent(kReloadComponent)
VST: more flexible support for passing MIDI program change messages to VST3 ^.

REAPER v6.26 - March 29, 2021
I am declaring Martian Law!
Downloads:

Windows (14MB installer)

Windows x64 (13MB installer)

macOS Intel (18MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (15MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

macOS ARM64 (12MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (9MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions: action to insert or extend MIDI item does not skip existing looped MIDI items ^.
Arrange: prevent possible overdraw with selected track cursor bracket and blinking cursor ^.
Dither: use prvhash for rng/tpdf generation (courtesy Aleksey Vaneev)
Edit cursor: display slightly subtler bracket on last selected track
Envelopes: fix editing automation item edge point using envelope point editor dialog [twtr=1367910774371401731]
Glue: actions glue within razor edit areas if they exist
Glue: default glue action splits items and glues only within time selection, if all selected items intersect the time selection
Glue: former default glue action is renamed "expanding to time selection if any", custom actions and scripts that use it are unaffected
JSFX: add output polarity setting for Liteon/nonlinear ^.
JSFX: autoexpand soft knee fix from sstillwell
JSFX: update 1175 compressor and various others to fix overcompression, add deprecated blown capacitor mode to preserve old behavior
JSFX: add improved SRC gain correction mode for guitar/amp-model and guitar/amp-model-dual
macOS: add NSMicrophoneUsageDescription to improve audio input support on Big Sur
macOS: main window fullscreen button activates REAPER-native fullscreen rather than OS fullscreen
macOS: workaround Big Sur MIDISend() bug where 250 or more events at the same timestamp crashes
Media items: adjust snap offset when copying selected part of media item ^.
Media items: preserve relative snap offset when copying media items ^.
Metadata: support displaying multiple iXML or xmp metadata keys in media source properties dialog ^.
Metadata: support embedding images when rendering FLAC files
MIDI: suppress unnecessary prompt on importing MIDI files ^.
MIDI: fix issues when launching rename note action via enter key
MIDI: improve MIDI editor focus behavior when closing various text editing fields
Mute automation: fix potential hang with empty automation item ^.
Razor edit: action to crossfade items at time selection acts on razor edits if they exist
Razor edit: add action to move nearest razor edit edge to edit cursor
Razor edit: add mouse modifiers to remove area from razor edit selection
Razor edit: auto-scroll vertically when editing razor edit top/bottom edge
Razor edit: fix stretching automation items across tempo changes when razor edit area does not match automation item length ^.
Razor edit: mouse modifer to split items at razor edit edges selects media items and removes the razor edit area
Razor edit: respect preference to update video playback position when editing audio items ^.
Razor edit: update display after running action to enclose media items ^.
API: add ResolveRenderPattern, to resolve a wildcard pattern into a list of target filenames
ReaScript: update Track_GetPeakInfo()/Track_GetPeakHoldDB() to support master track RMS, update documentation
ReaSurround: update track channels only when increasing plugin speaker count, not when changing plugin input channel count or decreasing speaker count
ReaVerb: add new SRC-normalization mode which should be more consistent for some impulses and samplerate combinations ^.
Region/Marker Manager: support exporting take markers, but not importing ^.
Render dialog: add support for rendering razor edit areas
Video processors: do not warn when loading empty video processor preset ^.
Video processors: fix preset name preservation behavior
Video processors: make preset list consistent with other FX types (user presets first)
Video processors: support preset navigation API ^.
VST: improve bridged plug-in floating window behavior on macOS
VST: improve floating window behavior of bridged VST plug-ins

REAPER v6.24 - March 2, 2021
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Downloads:

Windows (12MB installer)

Windows x64 (14MB installer)

macOS Intel (18MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (15MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

macOS ARM64 (12MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (9MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Accessibility: improve labels for FX preset menu and edit comment buttons
Accessibility: add textual fade descriptions to menus via accessibility APIs
AIFF: support in24/42ni AIFC encoding
Arrange view: display bracket over last selected track, to indicate where pasted content will go
Envelopes: add "remove envelope" menu item to envelope control panel context menu
Envelopes: fix automation potentially lost when moving media items across tracks that do not have a matching FX envelope ^.
Envelopes: fix automation items potentially left behind when moving media items across tracks
Envelopes: improve snapping behavior for Audio Unit enum parameters
Envelopes: support aliasing FX parameter from envelope control panel context menu
FX: add LV2 plug-in support
FX: add option to hide FX comment field in chain view
FX: support mousewheel processing for embedded FX if they have focus
FX: fix undo/redo display issues for FX comments
FX: limit generic UI vertical size to better fit on screen
FX: improve embedded FX update frequency when mouse-editing
FX: improve handling of embedded TCP/MCP controls for non-automatable parameters
FX: improve keyboard behavior with Waves StudioRack
FX: improve performance when automating parameters with the generic VST/AU GUI is open
FX: prevent creating envelopes for non-automatable parameters
JSFX: fix bugs in IX/MIDI_KeyMap, MIDI_Variant, and MIDI_DuplicateFilter ^. ^.
JSFX: improve denormal filtering on win32 to match win64/other OSes
JSFX: reduce memory use
Linux: rename JSFX ix/ subdirectory to IX/ ^.
Linux: support JSFX/Video Processors/EEL2 ReaScripts with SELinux heap-execution-prevention
Loop sections: fix media item loop section mouse modifiers interaction with reversed media ^.
macOS: improve Big Sur compatibility by forcing various windows to use Metal
macOS: improve resolution of docker icon progress display during render
macOS: fix launching Audio MIDI Setup on Big Sur
macOS: fix video output flicker on recent macOS versions
macOS: fix possible crash in menu editor on 10.14 ^.
Media explorer: action to insert media into active sample player looks for more recently active ReaSamplomatic5000 instance ^.
Media explorer: don't automatically re-scan empty files
Media explorer: don't re-scan database files that contain no metadata ^.
Mixer: fix issues with themes that have very large master.mcp.size set ^.
Mute automation: fix automating active mute envelope from controller ^.
Razor edit: add Razor Edit feature, to draw, move, copy, and transform selected areas of media and automation
Razor edit: support moving/copying envelope areas based on envelope type or envelope lane via mouse modifiers
Razor edit: when "move envelope points with items" enabled, hidden envelopes are included in area selections
Razor edit: actions to insert MIDI item, empty item, click source use razor edit areas if they exist
Razor edit: add option to always trim content behind razor edits
Razor edit: add preference to stretch audio media items by either adding stretch markers or splitting
Razor edit: display move guides when editing
Razor edit: auto-crossfade media items at the edge of the razor edit area ^.
Razor edit: support displaying overlapping media items in lanes
Razor edit: when auto-creating FX parameter envelopes, initialize with the current parameter value ^.
Razor edit: add basic API support
Razor edit: add settings to snap razor edits to media items and automation items
ReaScript: allow EEL2 scripts to call third-party API functions without using extension_api()
ReaScript: improve EEL2 extension_api() parameter count checking
ReaScript: reduce memory use of EEL2 scripts
ReaScript: fix IDE watch refresh when variable name changes ^.
ReaScript: support gfx_setcursor() during capture/without mousemove ^.
ReaScript: F1 in IDE gives context-sensitive help if possible
ReaScript: optimize Lua calls to plug-in API registered functions
ReaScript: add support for querying envelope GUID using GetSetEnvelopeInfo_String
ReaScript: GetTrackEnvelopeByChunkName will also find envelopes by GUID
Retina/HiDPI: improve knob appearance in ReaSamplomatic5000
Routing diagram: fix pin display issues with 64 channel tracks
ReaSamplomatic5000: support increasing max voices via controller/automation when UI is closed
Theme: add cursor_seltrack.png image to customize selected track cursor bracket
Theme: add theme color for selected track background
Video: fix possible deadlock when rendering video ^.
VST3: support third-party embeddable UIs via new IReaperUIEmbedInterface interface
Windows: 32-bit build is now compiled with VS2005/ICC
Windows: add experimental asynchronous unbuffered disk write mode
Windows: ignore hidden/system directories when scanning VST paths

REAPER v6.22 - February 4, 2021
I dreamed I was an innkeeper in this crazy little town in Vermont.
Downloads:

Windows (12MB installer)

Windows x64 (14MB installer)

macOS Intel (18MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (15MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

macOS ARM64 (12MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (9MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Audio units: improve envelope tooltips for enum parameters
FX: fix PDC mode resetting on undo of automation edits ^.
FX: import of .rpl automatically disambiguates duplicate preset names within the .rpl file
Jump dialog: fix jumping to times greater than one hour when ruler is not in H:M:S:F ^.
Media explorer: fix preview length when dragging selected part of media item into REAPER ^.
Media explorer: improve behavior when browsing folders with option disabled to auto-expand directory tree [2399243]
MIDI export: improve accuracy when exporting gradual tempo changes
ReaScript: fix return value for FX_GetParameterStepSizes() on Audio Units
Render: support $region(name) wildcard when rendering via region matrix ^.
Render: add preference in preferences/audio/rendering to control automatic closing of the render window
Save live output: improve behavior when not in 'record only while stopped' mode
Video: improve section/reverse behavior when previewing in the media explorer
Video: improve seek behavior when previewing in the media explorer
Windows: change default worker thread behavior to reduce excessive CPU use on many-core systems
Windows: fix tooltip behavior on windows that are pinned topmost

REAPER v6.20 - January 20, 2021
I dreamed I was an innkeeper in this crazy little town in Vermont.
Downloads:

Windows (12MB installer)

Windows x64 (14MB installer)

macOS Intel (18MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (19MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (15MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

macOS ARM64 (12MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (10MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (9MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions: add actions to render stems on 2nd pass
Actions: add action to set horizontal zoom to default project setting
Actions: fix action to select take under mouse when empty take lanes are not visible ^.
Actions: fix capitalization of ReaScript, ReaEQ, etc in action descriptions
Automation items: fix potential crash when splitting automation item under mouse cursor ^.
Batch converter: add option to preserve original file metadata when possible
Envelope panels: fix redraw glitch when TCP is wider than arrange view
Envelope panels: fix lag in display of value text
Freeze: disable track playback offset when freezing, re-enable when unfreezing ^.
FX: faster preset listing/saving/loading with large preset counts/sizes
FX: fix JSFX/AU pin map loading when FX pin count is larger than track channel count
FX: FX chains can be set to compensate delay per-FX (REAPER 6.19 or earlier), per-chain, or not at all
FX: master FX chain can be set to compensate delay at the hardware-send level for improved performance
FX browser: improve selection behavior when renaming FX
IDE: autosuggest text (function names, variable names) while typing
IDE: add Ctrl+R for replace (after find), Ctrl+Return to insert line after current, Ctrl+J to jump to line number
IDE: support searching backwards via Ctrl+Shift+G or Shift+F3
IDE: double-clicking a user function name jumps to the function definition
IDE: improve search function, up/down changes search modes (substring, word, token)
IDE: reduce flicker in watch lists
IDE: show viewable line range in status line
IDE: add preference for watch window update interval
IDE: remember watch-enabled state
JSFX: add bit meter
JSFX: change IDE behavior to use Ctrl+Shift+R to open an import line (vs Ctrl+R which is now used for search/replace)
macOS: improve listview appearance on Big Sur
macOS: Catalina/Big Sur builds are now built with the latest Apple toolchain
macOS: update table column alignment properly for multi-tab list controls (project bay, etc)
Media explorer: action to open arrange view media in media explorer respects autoplay preference
Media explorer: add action to calculate peak volume for media files
Media explorer: add action to preview random file
Media explorer: add action to re-read metadata from media files
Media explorer: add action to reverse preview playback
Media explorer: add options to normalize preview volume and/or normalize volume when inserting media
Media explorer: add track number column (not displayed by default)
Media explorer: after deleting files, select the next file
Media explorer: apply volume, pitch, rate adjustments properly when inserting multiple files at once
Media explorer: clean up shortcut view after reordering shortcuts
Media explorer: clear search cache when renaming files or when new files are added
Media explorer: display arrow cursor over preview scrollbars on Windows
Media explorer: display length, sample rate, audio channels for video media
Media explorer: don't re-initialize column order when the a new REAPER release changes the number of defined columns
Media explorer: don't search bit depth/bitrate/length metadata (you can sort those columns though)
Media explorer: remove actions to delete folders without recycling or confirming
Media explorer: fix action to play previously played media (A/B test)
Media explorer: fix context menu action to browse to folder for search results or database entry
Media explorer: fix customized column order on macos
Media explorer: fix displayed length/bit depth for some non-standard .wav files
Media explorer: fix possible crash when removing a track/project that is being used for preview
Media explorer: if option enabled, don't auto-play when initiating drag of unselected file ^.
Media explorer: improve accessibility of context menus via application-key
Media explorer: improve column sorting for length and bits columns
Media explorer: improve context menu organization and consistency
Media explorer: map reverse/forward preview playback to shift+leftarrow/shift+rightarrow by default
Media explorer: more accurate sample drawing when highly zoomed in
Media explorer: preserve custom column order when docking/undocking media explorer
Media explorer: prevent writing multiple ID3 tags to .wav files
Media explorer: respect preferences to apply preview volume/pitch/rate when inserting into reaper via drag or action
Media explorer: restore selection after renaming file ^.
Media explorer: optionally select enclosing folder in shortcut list when browsing
Media explorer: show filenames that will be removed when prompting to confirm deletion
Media explorer: tempo adjust (approximately) visual preview length of media when dragging from media explorer
Media explorer: improve behavior of various media format previews going to multichannel tracks ^.
Media items: don't reset manual fades when editing item contents with auto-crossfade enabled ^.
Media items: fix actions to move items up/down one lane ^.
Media items: fix potential crash when replacing media source for multiple items with empty items in the project ^.
Metadata: add preset support
Metadata: fix decoding very large BWF start offset values ^.
MIDI: fix pre-FX fader-scaled volume envelopes transforming MIDI incorrectly
MIDI: preserve MIDI port messages when importing MIDI to multiple tracks
MIDI: support RIFF-based MIDI files ^.
MIDI editor: add undo state when editing MIDI event properties
MIDI editor: fix display of linear tempo changes ^.
MIDI editor: fix event list delete button ^.
MIDI editor: support inserting and editing port messages, though REAPER doesn't do anything with those messages
MIDI export: improve exporting linear tempo changes ^.
MIDI recording: don't extend existing MIDI items past the start of a following MIDI item ^.
MIDI recording: fix behavior where existing MIDI item will not be extended if recording begins, but nothing is actually recorded, before the item start position
MIDI recording: in overdub/replace mode, don't extend existing MIDI items until MIDI has actually been recorded on the track
Mouse modifiers: add modifier to move item loop section contents respecting snap
MP3: encode chapter tags in timeline order ^.
Project bay: fix FX developer display when using multi-out VSTs
Project bay: fix undo point when dragging from FX tab to project
ReaDelay: display formatted parameter value in REAPER envelope edit dialog
ReaScript: EnumerateFiles()/EnumerateSubDirectories() allow manual cache invalidation ^.
ReaScript: fix EnumerateFiles()/EnumerateSubDirectories() cache bug ^.
ReaScript: GetFocusedFX()/GetFocusedFX2() support monitoring FX
ReaScript: Lua gmem_attach() returns previous global memory segment name ^.
Render: add support for 2nd pass render
Render: adjust 2nd pass render for resampler latency ^.
Ruler: when displaying time, always show X:XX.XXX even if the last X is zero
Scrub: add actions to temporarily enable looped-segment scrubbing
Super8: fix recording bug when in project/playback sync mode and gate was left enabled
Timecode: format as HH:MM:SS:FF rather than H:MM:SS:FF everywhere (timeline, transport, wildcards, etc)
Timecode: when timeline is in H:M:S:F format, interpret user-entered H.M.S.F as H:M:S:F
Track panel: show bypassed indication for embedded FX, shift+click header to toggle bypass
Undo: add undo point including filename when using save-as to save to a new project file
Undo: display the undo point corresponding with the last save in undo history
Video: do not show intermediate frames when seeking playback long distances
Video: do not show intermediate frames when stopped and repositioning cursor, unless rapidly repositioning cursor
Video: fix playing early frames when looping
Video: fix possible parameter automation display flicker while stopped
Video: fix timing glitch at playback start ^.
Video: improve playback behavior immediately following small backwards seek
Video: add optional project settings to have video affected by solo of other tracks, mute of parent tracks
Video: add project setting to control where in the frame automation is evaluated ^.
Video: spectrogram synthesis preset bugfixes
VST: improve plug-in scanning status messages
VST: add option to not scan for new/updated plug-ins on startup
VST: preferences window lists skipped plug-ins and allows manual re-scan
VST: reduce display update frequency when scanning filesystem
VST: fix IContextMenu compatibility issue
WAV: fix importing embedded transients as transient markers ^.
WAV: import embedded cues properly for certain files ^.
WAV: list embedded cues in media source properties dialog
Wildcards: add $marker(name) and $region(name) wildcards, for example $marker(ISRC) will resolve to "1234" if there is a project marker named "ISRC=1234" within the rendered time range
Wildcards: format timecode as HH.MM.SS.FF rather than H-MM-SS-FF (saved settings in existing projects are not affected)
Wildcards: make help text more consistent for start/end/length wildcards (sorry, localizers)
Windows: allow longer search strings in Media Explorer ^.
Windows: installed executables are now signed

REAPER v6.19 - December 18, 2020
The Tagline for This Version Is the Words You Are Reading Now
Downloads:

Windows (12MB installer)

Windows x64 (13MB installer)

macOS Intel (18MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

macOS ARM64 (12MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (9MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Accessibility: option to allow space key for navigation now affects track/marker managers, track routing window, envelope window, fade editor
Accessibility: add option in preferences/fades to display accessible (but cryptic) fade names instead of images in menus
API: add PCM_SOURCE_EXT_GETBITRATE
API: PCM_SOURCE_EXT_ENUMCUES_EX distinguishes between cues and chapter markers
Control surfaces: do not send duplicate CSURF_EXT_SETFXPARAM notifications in response to automation
EDL: fix importing media item fade shapes
Elastique: update to v3.3.3
Localization: support UTF-8 localization of wav render formats
Media explorer: add actions to increase/decrease preview volume
Media explorer: add action to reset columns to default order and width, re-initialize view when new fields are added in a REAPER update
Media explorer: add option to group folders at top
Media explorer: add scrollbars to zoom/scroll preview display and increase/decrease waveform height, option to show/hide scrollbars
Media explorer: if options enabled, apply volume/pitch/rate adjustments when adding media to ReaSamploMatic5000 ^.
Media explorer: by default, pick up beat-synced preview immediately, add option to wait for next measure to start
Media explorer: display sample rate, channel count, bit depth/bitrate
Media explorer: display media length
Media explorer: display media source preferred position (BWF start offset or any other available reference metadata)
Media explorer: display preview position/length in milliseconds
Media explorer: faster metadata reading for .ogg files
Media explorer: fix action to go to parent folder when persistent search is active ^.
Media explorer: fix duplicate metadata potentially being written to files
Media explorer: fix actions to scan all databases ^.
Media explorer: fix synchronized previews being off by a buffer block
Media explorer: preserve unrecognized ID3 tag elements when editing metadata
Media explorer: set media offline before rewriting metadata, in case the file is already in use in the arrange view
Media explorer: snap cursor to media cues/regions/transients/chapters
Media explorer: support customizing file last-modified date display format
Media explorer: preserve user-edited (but not yet written) metadata when re-reading metadata from media ^.
Media explorer: support temporary marks for files, to track what has been previewed or other uses
Media explorer: support updating metadata for multi-stream files where the vorbis stream is not first
Media explorer: support writing edited source preferred position back to media files
Media explorer: add refresh button, add theme images for back/forward/up/refresh
Media items: preserve manual fade shape when clearing auto-crossfade ^.
Media items: support applying media source BWF start offset to item ruler ^.
Media items: support section/reverse parameters in item ruler ^.
Metadata: support time reference (start offset) in mp3, flac, ogg, opus, wavpack in addition to wav
Metadata: support iXML metadata in flac, mp3 files
Metadata: display mp3 event markers in media explorer and arrange view
Metadata: list AXML metadata separately from BWF (they had been combined for legacy reasons)
Metadata: list render metadata schemes in alphabetical order
Metadata: improve compatibility when editing metadata for OGG files with large page sizes
MIDI: fix adjusting imported MIDI length to match project tempo map (6.17 regression) ^.
Peaks: warn if peaks are not buildable because alternate peaks path is configured but invalid
Project save: improve behavior when copying symlinked media on macOS/Linux
ReaScript: add B_RECMON_IN_EFFECT to GetMediaTrackInfo_Value()
ReaScript: add GetMediaFileMetadata
ReaScript: support UTF-8 font names on Windows ^.
ReaScript: do not run deferred scripts during project load ^.
Recording: fix potentially incorrect fadeout created when recording in item autopunch mode
Render: activate "apply" button after browsing to new output folder ^.
Render: respect option to embed project name in BWF when other BWF metadata is provided
Subprojects: embed subproject metadata in rendered .rpp-prox file ^.
Subprojects: support embedding source preferred position (BWF start offset)
Takes: fix potential crash when replacing multiple occurrences of the same source media ^.
Track manager: fix reordering tracks when using various sort modes ^.
Video processors: support UTF-8 font names on Windows ^.
VST: decrease latency of VST3 channel context notifications
VST: support "REAPER record monitor in effect" attribute for VST3 channel contexts
Wavpack: improve interaction between render metadata and BWF settings
Wildcards: add $dayname and $datetime wildcards

REAPER v6.18 - December 1, 2020
Feature Ratchet 3: The Latchinating
Downloads:

Windows (12MB installer)

Windows x64 (13MB installer)

macOS Intel (18MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

macOS ARM64 (12MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (9MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Media explorer: add option to not apply preview pitch/rate to inserted media item ^.
Media explorer: fix UTF-8 support for search field on Windows ^.
Media explorer: fix potential failure editing .ogg file metadata ^.
Media explorer: allow editing metadata of multi-stream .ogg files
ReaScript: improve documentation for GetAppVersion and GetOS
VST: avoid scanning recursive symlinks
VST: improve startup scanning user interface, allow cancel of long scans

REAPER v6.16 - November 23, 2020
Feature Ratchet
Downloads:

Windows (12MB installer)

Windows x64 (13MB installer)

macOS Intel (18MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

macOS 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

macOS ARM64 (12MB DMG)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (9MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Anticipative FX: fix excessive buffering when feedback loop w/ PDC present but feedback is disabled
Dynamic split: support ripple editing when removing silence
FX: improve display issues when FX resized and chain is displayed on right side of view
Linux: improve splash screen update frequency
macOS: update to ICC 18.5
Media: display all supported metadata in source properties dialog
Media: when matching tempo for preview or import, use any suitable metadata, if it matches the beat length of the media ^.
Media explorer: display metadata in filesystem folder view
Media explorer: automatically populate metadata for media files that are visible in the browser list
Media explorer: support editing metadata in-place in the list
Media explorer: support editing media file metadata in filesystem folder view
Media explorer: support writing edited metadata to media files
Media explorer: support marking media files as favorites, option to group favorites at the top
Media explorer: add playback rate control
Media explorer: remove option to use Windows Explorer for browsing
Media explorer: update databases after moving or renaming files
Media explorer: actions to insert on a new track create a new track after the last touched track
Media explorer: add actions to go to shortcuts
Media explorer: add action to rescan all databases
Media explorer: add action to collapse all folders
Media explorer: add action to create subfolder
Media explorer: add action to delete files immediately (no confirmation/trash/recycle)
Media explorer: add action to insert media into sample player on new or last touched track
Media explorer: add action to open selected file in explorer/finder
Media explorer: add action to randomize file list
Media explorer: add option for search string to persist when browsing to new folder or database
Media explorer: add option for vertical layout
Media explorer: add option to hide file extension when file type column is displayed
Media explorer: add option to hide folders in file list
Media explorer: add option to hide path dropdown box
Media explorer: add option to try to open non-media files
Media explorer: add various display zoom actions
Media explorer: add option to auto-stop when initiating file drag
Media explorer: automatically update filesystem folder view when folder contents change
Media explorer: clear preview playback when changing selection in browser
Media explorer: column sort preferences persist between REAPER sessions
Media explorer: confirm before deleting database
Media explorer: display embedded transients in preview
Media explorer: display mp3, flac, ogg, opus chapter markers in preview and optionally arrange view
Media explorer: double-click preview display to select region between slices, cues, chapters
Media explorer: faster metadata reading for various file types
Media explorer: fix handling of shortcuts/paths with odd paths ending in space, etc ^.
Media explorer: improve macOS retina drawing of peaks
Media explorer: insert media on most recently selected track, not first selected track, consistent with copy/paste
Media explorer: insert new shortcuts or databases immediately following the currently selected shortcut
Media explorer: more efficient duplicate prevention with gigantic databases
Media explorer: move pitch knob options to pitch knob context menu
Media explorer: on startup, add any previously unreachable databases back into shortcut list
Media explorer: transpose MIDI directly when adjusting pitch
Media explorer: save recent search strings
Media explorer: set focus to arrange view after dragging samples from media explorer
Media explorer: show all controls at all widths
Media explorer: show database name in path dropdown rather than "XX.ReaperFileList"
Media explorer: show file type and reaper document icon for automation items
Media explorer: support assigning shortcuts to actions to rescan database
Media explorer: support browsing to folder enclosing file in database or search results ^.
Media explorer: support copy/pasting files in or out of media explorer
Media explorer: support customizable floating toolbar
Media explorer: support customizing menus
Media explorer: support dragging files into folders, real paths, or databases
Media explorer: support keyboard shortcuts for all "Media: insert into project" and "Media: Insert into selected media items" actions
Media explorer: support moving files to trash/recycle bin
Media explorer: add options to display leading path, full path, or no path
Media explorer: support renaming files
Media explorer: support renaming folders in tree view
Media explorer: support render-drag of file section outside of REAPER on mac
Media explorer: use tree view for shortcut list
Media explorer: when editing metadata in-place, up/down arrows navigate to previous/next file
Media items: add action to open selected item source media in explorer/finder
Project metadata: add "all schemes" section, to add/edit metadata for multiple schemes at once
Project metadata: support XMP, APEv2, IFF, REX metadata
Project metadata: support special REAPER tag, for display/searching in media explorer
Project metadata: support embedding ID3 tag in .wav files
Project metadata: add category column to metadata dialog
Project metadata: add option to always write title, date, and time fields when rendering
Project metadata: add $date wildcard
Project metadata: support user-defined metadata fields in schemes that support it
Project metadata: save/restore column widths
Project metadata: fix ID3 image metadata saving with project ^.
Project metadata: write INFO metadata as the last chunk in a .wav file so Windows Explorer will see it ^.
NINJAM: lower network latency in voice chat mode
ReaSamplOmatic5000: when dragging files from media explorer, automatically adjust start/end, volume, and pitch
Region manager: fix sorting by marker/region index ^.
Theme adjuster: add action to open theme adjuster, default to Default_6.0 adjuster for old themes
Theme adjuster: support global/color configuration for all themes
Theme adjuster: option to show sends list in TCP (separate from FX)
Tooltips: fix reset of topmost pins on Windows when showing tooltip ^.
VST: fix compatibility with a mixture of Waves VST3 shell plug-ins installed
VST: do not apply Windows multimonitor DPI changes across monitors until mouse released
VST: use separate process when scanning plug-ins, allow terminating hung plug-ins during scan
VST: improve resize behavior for various VST3
VST: re-scan button in preferences shows list of plug-ins which failed to scan, allow forcing a rescan of each plug-in
Windows: fix resolution of shortcuts that point to non-ascii filenames

REAPER v6.14 - September 21, 2020
Black Lives Matter
Downloads:

Windows (12MB installer)

Windows x64 (13MB installer)

OS X Intel (18MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (9MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

About box: improve UI for license key import
Accessibility: fix keyboard navigation in empty FX chain
Accessibility: support enter key in actions window shortcut key binding list
Accessibility: improve render window tab order
Actions: fix behavior of actions to cut/delete items within time selection with ripple edit enabled
ARA: improve behavior when copying multiple items with different edits that share the same source media ^.
Arrange: allow showing both or neither of item volume handle/knob
Audio devices: prevent deadlock when changing sample rate of some audio devices ^.
Fades: allow disabling default fade-in/fade-out lengths for imported media items
FX: update parameter display in TCP/MCP when changed by plug-in from audio thread
Grid/snap dialog: apply grid snap length setting instantly rather than when window is closed
Help: fix mouse modifier help HTML display ^.
Import: prevent crash after importing multichannel item to multiple tracks
JSFX: allow image/gfx window dimensions up to 8192 pixels
macOS: fix keyboard focus when closing track name edit window
macOS: fix listview column ordering issue when adding columns e.g. in actions window
Menu customization: optimize changing menus when actions window is open ^.
MIDI hardware: support forcing control messages from different devices to different channels
MIDI editor: fix updating CC lane labels when changing lane via action ^.
Mixer: add option to group FX parameters with FX
Mixer: improve cursor feedback when drag/dropping FX
Mixer: add option to group sends with/before/after FX
ReaScript: allow image/gfx window dimensions up to 8192 pixels
Region/marker manager: add take marker support
Region/marker manager: add preference to list markers, regions, and take markers grouped together or separately
Render: fix project render metadata being unintentionally deleted ^.
Theme: add new tcp_fxparm_fx_norm/byp/off background images
Theme: use scrollbars instead of scroll buttons for FX/sends/FX parameters
Theme: extend tcp.fxparm.margin to support 7th field of FX-insert alignment, 8th field inter-column gap
Track panels: fix visual issues with certain track color settings ^.
Track panels: support movable divider between FX parameters and embedded FX
Track panels: optionally show FX and sends in track panels
Tracks: support any even channel count between 2 and 64

REAPER v6.13 - July 23, 2020
Black Lives Matter
Downloads:

Windows (12MB installer)

Windows x64 (13MB installer)

OS X Intel (18MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (9MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Action list: reduce ReaScript/Custom Action button redundancies
Action list: auto-populate editor with selected actions when creating new custom action
Automation: add actions to insert envelope point at current position and not remove nearby points
Automation: add action to add/edit envelope point exactly at cursor
Automation: improve horizontal guide line positioning ^.
Automation: fix pasting envelope points at mouse position via action
Batch converter: improve command line documentation ^.
FX: improve parameter linking to use wet/bypass/parameter-ID hinting for source parameter ^.
Linux: fix action to spawn new REAPER instance
macOS: add control+space as default shortcut for "play or pause", in addition to cmd+space which usually opens system spotlight search
macOS: fix display glitch when using non-retina secondary display ^.
macOS: fix focus issues when activating docked FX browser
macOS: fix Audio Units bridging support (5.79 regression)
macOS: fix media explorer "REAPER" menu
macOS: improve cursor flicker behavior when resizing certain UI elements
Media explorer: fix database/metadata cache issues for large files, post-2037 dates
Media import: support pasting files from explorer/finder directly into arrange view
Media import: fix playback when importing resampled .wav files with embedded transient information as beat slices ^.
Media items: when enabling loop item source, ensure start offset is not negative
MIDI: add option to apply default CC shape to recorded events ^.
MIDI: fix inline editor CC labels for unnamed CCs
MIDI: fix inline editor menu, add missing actions ^.
MIDI: improve CC lane selection UI
MIDI: improve marquee selection in CC lanes when MSB/LSB events are mismatched
MIDI: improve 14-bit lane usage indicators
Mixer: fix resizing between send and fx parameter lists when track inserts are not displayed
Notation: fix incorrect notation of native MIDI key signature event in A minor ^.
Notation: fix persistence of note staff positioning when using multiple staves ^.
OSC: always send wet/dry notifications even when outside of device FX parameter bank size ^.
OSC: support /actions/_REGISTERED_COMMAND_ID ^.
Project bay: add undo point when editing media item groups
Project bay: fix crash when removing media items from group
Project encoding: better corner case handling of text strings containing newlines/carriage returns
ReaScale: improve default path for Load... command
ReaScript: fix envelope undo issues with SetTrackStateChunk ^.
ReaScript: PreventUIRefresh() inhibits Undo-related UI updates
ReaScript: fix EEL2 float-to-string rounding errors on macOS/linux (also affects Video, JSFX) ^.
ReaSynth: fix portamento on non-overlapping notes ^.
Recording: support automatically creating folders (including based on wildcard substitution) for recorded files
Render: support / (create folder) in target filename
Render: add $folders wildcard for rendering/recording, to create disk folder structure based on track folders
Render: fix $region and $regionnumber wildcards when used together ^.
Render: update $samplerate wildcard properly when changing render settings
REX: update Windows shared library to version 1.8.3, includes unbridged 64-bit support
Routing: fix multiprocessing issues with certain feedback structures (6.12 regression) ^.
RS5k: update UI/channel count/voices when adding/changing samples via ReaScript ^.
Sends: improve audio performance when deleting sends while send UI is displayed
System: fix potential crashes due to high socket use on macOS and Linux ^.
System: notify when disk write errors occur or a disk becomes full ^.
System: add Preferences/Audio option to bypass audio processing when disk write error notification occurs
System: fix reduce_open_files() and associated advanced experimental preference (6.11 regression)
Takes: fix action to collapse empty take lanes
Tempo map: add action to create a single measure from time selection ^.
Tempo map: restore pre-6.02 default behavior of action to create measure(s) from time selection, auto-detecting number of measures ^. ^.
Theme: fix misc_dpi_translate mapping bug
Theme: improve DPI scaling logic, improve layout_dpi_translate behavior, improve default sizing on 125% displays
Theme: minor default theme updates
Theme: improve theme adjuster font sizes on Linux
Toolbars: apply MIDI toolbar actions to the focused MIDI editor, even if the editor is not in piano roll mode (many actions will work in any editor mode)
Track metering: improve pre/post-fader corner cases on record armed tracks ^.
Vorbis: do not render an empty file if output parameters are invalid ^.
WAV: support writing 32-bit PCM
WAV: improve performance/behavior when reading large malformed .wav files ^.
WAV: improve description of rendering format
Web interface: reduce latency of web server
Windows: fix clipboard issues when a script or custom action thrashes the system clipboard
Windows: improve alt key menu activation behavior when alt-tabbing from REAPER and back
Windows: fix potential ASIO driver incompatibility ^.
Windows: fix Track/Region/Marker Managers text field focus issue
Windows: fix default extension for VST3 preset export ^.
Windows: fix UTF-8 values in ReaScript watch window
Windows: always install bridging support

REAPER v6.12c - June 15, 2020
Black Lives Matter
Downloads:

Windows (12MB installer)

Windows x64 (13MB installer)

OS X Intel (18MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (9MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions: fix action to scroll view vertically one page ^.
Audio Units: do not show duplicates for plug-ins that register as both an effect and instrument
Automation items: only copy time-selected area if edit begins within the time selection ^.
Automation items: prevent potential hang when editing trim via envelope control panel ^.
Custom actions: editor is now modeless and can be opened for multiple custom actions at once
Custom actions: improve accessibility of editor (Control+Up/Down to reorder custom action list, Enter to add to list, etc) ^.
Custom menu/toolbar editor: allow inserting multiple actions at once
Copy/paste: add actions to paste items ignoring hidden tracks (wysiwyg), which is the default behavior since 6.11 ^.
Copy/paste/delete: context-sensitive cut/copy/paste/delete commands will affect selected media items if track control panel area was last clicked but no tracks are selected
Envelopes: fix display glitch in certain instances with asymmetrical envelope display ^.
FX browser: minor reorganization of controls
FX browser: add context menu items to add FX to selected active takes, selected tracks
FX browser: add option to hide FX type prefixes in folders and filtered views ^.
FX browser: add options to hide FX when duplicate FX of a preferred type is present
FX browser: allow reordering of user-folders via drag/drop or Ctrl+Up/Down
FX browser: allow dragging multiple plug-ins to empty TCP/MCP areas to create tracks
FX browser: show confirmation prompt when adding more than 9 plug-ins at once
FX browser: fix display of ReWire and FX chains in quick add menu folders
FX browser: replace existing FX when alt+dragging from FX browser to an existing FX instance
FX browser: increase maximum folders/VST folder counts
FX browser: remove developer names from items when redundant with the folder name
Freeze/render stems: fix behavior when rendering multiple items on the same track with the same item name ^.
Grid: prevent "adjust grid by.." actions from setting grid to unreasonable values ^.
Groups: add actions to select groups 33-64 ^.
Groups: modernize nomenclature
Internals: restore logical-sort in reaper-menu.ini ^.
Item solo: improve item solo action behaviors, add new actions/API to access
JSFX: atomic_*() now work across different JSFX instances e.g. on gmem ^.
Linux: fix missing checkbox icons in FX chain etc ^.
Localization: fix localizing render wildcard help dialog
macOS: allow NSAppTransportSecurity NSExceptionDomains for localhost/HTTP for some plug-ins
macOS: improve support for js_ReaScriptAPI extension drawing with Metal ^.
MIDI: improve item start offset behavior when recording and preserve PDC monitoring enabled ^.
Media explorer: fix option to toggle searching by custom database tag
Metadata: fix writing CART TagText field
Metronome: support longer pattern entry on Windows ^.
Metronome: increase size of metronome pattern entry fields to show up to 32 beats
NINJAM: fix import timing issue with certain bpm/bpi changes
NINJAM: improve accessibility descriptions of mute/solo buttons in ReaNINJAM
Playback: fix playback to end of lengthened project when adjusting item rate/position/length via action, media item properties, or API
Preferences: fix incorrect reset of track default crossfade options
Project bay: improve velocity scaling display for MIDI items ^.
Project bay: minor reorganization of controls
Project bay: support Ctrl+A in filter field to select all text
RS5k: small reorganization of controls
RS5k: add Portamento setting
RS5k: allow loop to be enabled when ignoring note-offs
RS5k: improve UI for editing loop start offset/fades
RS5k: right clicking activity light sends note-offs
RS5k: use a fixed-size ADSR view when using a looping sample
RS5k: allow easier setting of long attack/release settings when using short looped media
ReaEQ: fix processing artifact when automating parameters away from a non-automatically-bypassed state ^.
ReaEQ: reduce CPU use
ReaScript: add PromptForAction()
ReaScript: fix temporary playback issue when reconfiguring send via SetTrackSendInfo_Value(I_SRCCHAN)
ReaScript: update Track/TakeFX_AddByName() to allow inserting FXADD:, allow inserting FX at position in chain
ReaSynth: add Portamento setting
ReaVerbate: reduce CPU use
Render: enable Apply button after editing render target directory ^.
Render: resolve $region wildcard correctly when using region render matrix with multiple regions with the same start/end times ^.
Ripple editing: allow moving media items across tracks with ripple editing enabled and items near top/bottom of project
Routing: fix issues relating to detection of feedback in routing ^.
Snap: do not snap time/loop selections to edit cursor/time selection if it would make a zero-length selection
Toolbars: apply global color tweaks to toolbar buttons after state change ^.
Video: add 'Combine: grid of videos' preset ^.
Video: improve 'Apply track FX only where track has video items' preset to allow clearing if no items
WavPack: support dual-mono optimization
WavPack: support embedding APEv2 tags when rendering
WavPack: display WavPack metadata in source properties dialog
Windows: fix GDI object leak when closing media item properties

REAPER v6.11 - May 24, 2020
The Gone-Away World
Downloads:

Windows (12MB installer)

Windows x64 (13MB installer)

OS X Intel (18MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (9MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Appearance: add Theme Color Controls window for per-theme brightness/contrast/gamma/color adjustment
Automation items: improve properties window text editing behavior
CD: include track names in CUE file when using regions to mark tracks
CD: support basic metadata in CUE files
CD: embed per-track metadata if special project markers are seen, even if no other metadata is entered
Default theme adjuster: add color adjustment
Default theme adjuster: allow translating via language pack
Default theme adjuster: add 'extend name' track control alignment mode ^.
Envelopes: improve responsiveness/scroll behavior of mousewheel on envelope control panel knob
FX browser: fix potential memory leak when adding instruments
FX browser: fix key/action assignments for ReWire plug-ins
Item menu: fix phase (polarity) invert indicator [twtr=1260330536758804481]
JSFX: fix reading non-ASCII filenames on Windows
Keyboard: allow unmodified function key shortcuts from within edit controls ^.
Linux: fix incorrect handling of function keys in edit controls
MIDI editor: support keyboard navigation in CC lane dropdown on Windows
MIDI editor: fix actions to insert bank/program, text, and sysex events in piano roll view
MIDI: send note-offs to hardware and plug-ins when switching takes ^.
MIDI: support bank/program files that contain multiple named banks with the same MSB/LSB ^.
macOS: fix inconsistent up vs down mousewheel scroll rates on track control panel
macOS: improve updating various windows on theme change when Metal is enabled
Media explorer: fix action to re-read all metadata for database ^.
Media explorer: fix reading WAV INFO and CART metadata for database
Media explorer: volume knob affects preview output when routed through tracks
Media items: properly account for hidden tracks when cut/copy/pasting items from/to multiple tracks
Media items: improve display when moving multiple media items between tracks with different numbers of envelope lanes
Media items: if a media item has an empty named take and no item notes, display the take name in the arrange view ^.
Media items: display grouping button on empty items that are grouped
Media items: improve behavior when clicking and immediately moving an item very quickly
Media items: fix take volume set to zero after importing media with embedded transients using "insert media file" action ^.
Metadata: rename Metadata window Save button to Apply
Metadata: add ALBUMARTIST, PRODUCER, LABEL, LANGUAGE tags for FLAC, OGG, OPUS
Metadata: add support for more ID3 tag types including TXXX
Metadata: add $filename wildcard ^.
Metadata: add action to clear all vs just the current scheme
Metadata: add action/menu item to open project render metadata window
Metadata: add option to embed automatic BWF metadata even if no other data entered
Metadata: improve user interface for setting ID3 image file/type
Metadata: fix INFO metadata display in Windows Explorer
Metadata: ensure user-supplied iXML metadata is XML-compliant
Metadata: fix writing images to ID3 tags from filenames with non-ascii characters on Windows
Metadata: mark project dirty when applying metadata changes
Metadata: support embedding iXML data in WAV files
Mixer: add option for horizontal scroll over the mixer to scroll mixer tracks instead of arrange view
Mixer: mousewheel scroll consistently by one track left and right
Notation: fix PDF export on Windows if REAPER is installed with non-ASCII characters in the path
Project bay: hide browse button when it is not usable
Project bay: volume knob affects preview output when routed through tracks
Project settings: allow saving default project author
RS5k: increase max voice limit to 64, default limit to 8
ReaNINJAM: fix UTF-8 chat display on Windows
ReaScript IDE: improve precision/number formatting in watch window
ReaScript IDE: watch list filter also matches variable values
ReaScript IDE: fix opening file with non-ASCII filename on Windows via Ctrl+R
ReaScript IDE: Lua watch is scanned breadth-first, show references to tables rather than repeating them
ReaScript IDE: improve/optimize watch display
ReaScript: add GetThemeColor()/SetThemeColor()
ReaScript: add LocalizeString()
ReaScript: add documentation for new RENDER_SETTINGS flags
ReaScript: implement GetFxByName() for ReWire
Render: add $fx wildcard, to list all track and/or take FX
Render: add support for $itemnote and $takemarker wildcards
Render: configuration UI improvements
Render: fix sticky project queued render delay ^.
Render: improve tab order of render dialog controls ^.
Render: match $reg to $region wildcard ^.
Ruler: allow denser label spacing when using minimal beats mode with no secondary mode
Startup: by default, prompt-for-project dialog selects last opened project, or last opened set of project tabs if multiple tabs were last opened
System: fix minor UI/performance issues that could occur if system millisecond timer wraps
Themes: allow separate configuration of Trim Volume envelope color ^.
VST: fix VST3 preset import/export on Windows to non-ASCII pathnames
VST: prevent duplicate keyboard notifications being sent to plug-ins on Windows
WAV: support read/write of u-Law files
Windows: improve appearance of some ReaPlugs ^.

REAPER v6.10 - May 9, 2020
The Gone-Away World
Downloads:

Windows (12MB installer)

Windows x64 (13MB installer)

OS X Intel (18MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (9MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

ARA: preserve edits when user applies timing changes to media or imports as MIDI
ARA: preserve edits after undoing some types of split actions
Automation: fix performance issues with envelope points that are more than 2 billion samples apart
Automation: fix possible crash when envelope panel hidden during capture ^.
JSFX: Super8: fix vclick: off mode
JSFX: add midi_note_sanitizer
JSFX: midi_logger: show note-ons as slightly green, note-offs as slightly red, add noteon/off analysis mode (sequential or grouped-by-note)
JSFX: improve Windows gfx_getchar() behavior for ctrl/alt+various keys ^.
JSFX: update Add-FX displayed effect name when saving plugin in editor
Knobs: re-show mouse cursor if UI element is destroyed while being edited
Linux: allow listview column reordering in Project Bay, Media Explorer, etc
macOS: fix track routing window changing monitors when adding send
macOS: improve keyboard navigation in various windows
MIDI: add option to display notation text in piano roll ^.
MIDI: improve appearance of note text that extends beyond the end of the not
MIDI: adjust for global midi octave display offset in parameter modulation menu
MIDI: revert v6.09 problematic changes to overdub/replace recording with input quantization
MIDI: send note-offs when changing project tempo during playback
MIDI: send note-offs when duplicating active take
Media explorer: fix inconsistency between media explorer tempo match and project import tempo match ^.
Media explorer: parse year correctly from ID3v2.4 tag
Media explorer: support BPM and key metadata in ID3 tags
Media offline: update arrange view when using actions to force media offline
Metadata: save/load metadata with project
Metadata: support wildcards in metadata fields
Metadata: support embedding BWF data in WAV (if provided, metadata overrides render format options)
Metadata: support embedding BWF data in FLAC via iXML
Metadata: support embedding vorbis tags in FLAC, OGG, OPUS, including chapter tags
Metadata: support embedding ISRC in WAV via bext/axml
Metadata: support embedding ID3 tags in MP3, including chapter tags and album image
Metadata: support embedding INFO and CART data in WAV
Metadata: support reading BWF timecode from iXML data in FLAC files ^.
Project bay: display values in fades column if any fade is present
Project bay: improve fade column sorting
Project: save project author as entered in project settings/notes dialog
Project: save metronome click shape in default project settings ^.
ReaScript: use case-insensitive sorting for Lua function list menu
ReaScript: add support for getting/setting project render metadata
ReaScript: add RENDER_TARGETS, to retrieve the list of files that would be written given current project render settings
ReaScript: improve Windows gfx.getchar() behavior for ctrl/alt+various keys ^.
Recording: improve loopable section creation logic with time selection auto-punch recording ^.
Render: add option to skip rendering files that are likely silent ^.
Render: embed stretch markers/transient guides properly when rendering looped media
Render: fix potential crash when rendering stems and target file cannot be opened
Render: support embedding take markers as cues in wav files
Snap: snap project markers and regions following settings for snapping cursor
Snap: improve unsnapped movement of ruler markers/region edges
Snap: snap media items to take markers respecting preference to snap to other media items within X tracks
Snap: snap cursor/time selection/markers/regions to take markers only if preference is enabled to snap to media items
Startup: when startup script is used, preserve undo history but allow the user to immediately load another project without prompting to save
Take markers: improve label vertical positioning with mono channel mode on stereo media
Take markers: allow more lanes of take markers, especially on non-audio takes ^.
Take markers: avoid potential crash when media item source file is not available
Take markers: do not show take markers for previous recording passes
Take markers: fix adding take markers in various audio recording modes
Take markers: support adding take markers to empty items
VST: fix sending macOS command vs control modifier keys to VST3 plugins
VST: fix sending panic all-notes-off to VST3 instruments
VST: improve MIDI output bus handling when plug-in does not send events
VST: when starting playback within one sample of the measure start, tell the plugin it is exactly the measure start ^.
Video: fix video playback for media that was previously forced offline ^.
Video: fix possible crash when removing reversed video item
WAV: display CART data in media source properties
Wildcards: add $author wildcard for recording, rendering, file conversion
Wildcards: add $marker wildcard for render/batch converter (name or number of first marker in rendered timeline)
Wildcards: support $format wildcard properly when using secondary render format
Windows: improve Preferences focus handling of Device tab ^.

REAPER v6.09 - April 27, 2020
The Gone-Away World
Downloads:

Windows (12MB installer)

Windows x64 (13MB installer)

OS X Intel (18MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (9MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

ARA: update SDK to version 1.99
Actions: display action IDs when running action to list all actions
Audio Units: fix scan issues with plug-in manufacturer names that begin with an opening bracket
File browsers: fix minor default extension issues
JSFX: sequencer_megababy: fix reading of note name files that do not have CRLF pairs
JSFX: sequencer_megababy: support reading note name files in same format as MIDI editor
JSFX: Super8: add project-sync mode
JSFX: Super8: add button/assignment to cycle selected channel record/play/stop
JSFX: Super8: add play-all button (stops all if all active are playing)
JSFX: Super8: allow assigning CC/PCs to all things
JSFX: Super8: support linking channels
Jump to time window: fix jumping to marker 9 ^.
Jump to time window: support jumping to take markers
Linux: fix reamote-server configuration path
macOS: fix Retina/Metal drawing glitch when scrolling master track out of view
macOS: add possible Metal fix for drawing glitches after waking up from sleep
macOS: improve stretch marker/transient guide appearance on Retina displays
macOS: allow attaching debugger to Catalina notarized version
MIDI: always refresh banks/programs when loading .reabank/.ins files in MIDI editor and ReaControlMIDI
MIDI: fix MIDI export timing when file contains invalid MIDI messages ^.
MIDI: fix removing duplicate notes when using input quantize and recording in non-overdub/replace modes
MIDI: fix overdub recording with duplicate notes in certain input quantize situations ^.
MIDI: fix certain settings (ignore tempo map, CC interpolation PPQ) resetting when file-backed MIDI media goes offline
MIDI: fix various pooled file-backed MIDI playback and arrange view appearance bugs
MIDI: preserve order and duplicate entries when displaying .reabank/.ins files in MIDI editor and ReaControlMIDI ^. ^.
MIDI: support save/load of named sysex messages ^.
Media explorer: fix reading final element in ID3v2 tags
Media explorer: parse year metadata correctly from ID3v2.4 tag
Media explorer: support reading OGG/OPUS/FLAC metadata
Media items: support relative snap when moving media item contents ^.
Media item properties: avoid potential precision loss to playrate/pitch when applying settings
Media items: adjust embedded cue and take marker drawing when displaying rectified peaks
MusicXML: fix exporting mp, mf dynamics
MusicXML: respect preference to position dynamics below the staff on import ^.
NINJAM: when importing session, improve voice chat, fix timing corner cases, fix possible crashes
ReaMote: fix updating remote configuration state for some plug-ins/JSFX
ReaNINJAM: add keyboard shortcuts
ReaNINJAM: fix global key bindings/vkb in chat field ^.
ReaNINJAM: improve chat display accessibility, improve keyboard handling of chat window
ReaNINJAM: improve voice-chat playback latency, log voice-chat channels to clipsort.log
ReaNINJAM: add options to send local channels and metronome to separate outputs
ReaTune: fix potentially incorrect first-time playback when loaded as take FX
Recent projects: add option to show file name before path in menu ^.
Recent projects: after attempting to open a recent project that does not exist, prompt before removing from the recent list
Render: add $filecount wildcard (total number of rendered files in this)
Render: document behavior of wildcards like $filenumber[N] in wildcard help dialog
Ruler: add preference to adjust ruler label horizontal spacing
Ruler: display grid properly with very long measures ^.
Save-as: prevent opening new projects from explorer/finder while copying files ^.
Screensets: fix restoring horizontal scroll position with screenset
Stretch markers: fix marker handle DPI scaling
Take markers: add take marker support (mark specific time positions in individual takes)
Take markers: support custom text and colors for take markers
Take markers: add actions to add or quick-add take markers during playback or recording
Theme element finder: fix interactions with theme color tweak window
Transport: fix jump to marker menu when the first region precedes the first marker
Video: update render extension when changing render format ^.
Windows: support CPU groups for systems with more than 64 logical CPUs (threads)

REAPER v6.08 - April 3, 2020
Baked by Electricity
Downloads:

Windows (12MB installer)

Windows x64 (13MB installer)

OS X Intel (18MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (9MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

ARA: more improvements to preventing lost data when doing complex edits ^.
Actions: add action to clear tempo envelope
JSFX: add sequencer_megababy extended recording options via MIDI trigger parameter
MIDI: avoid retriggering notes when recording past the end of an unlooped MIDI item
MIDI: prevent double event playback in certain overdub situations
Media explorer: optionally apply preview volume when inserting media item
NINJAM import: allow setting output format when importing session
NINJAM import: create a chat track with chat messages in empty item notes
Pan: add option to limit taper to linear shape above +3dB pan law ^.
ReaNINJAM: add Sync button, with options to start REAPER playback at interval start, set project tempo/loop interval
ReaNINJAM: improve behavior when in private server lobbies
ReaNINJAM: improve appearance on macOS/Linux
ReaNINJAM: fix possible incorrect monitoring when server has limited local channels
ReaNINJAM: include chat messages in clipsort.log for posterity/import
Render: fix potential crash when rendering stems and target file cannot be opened ^.

REAPER v6.06 - March 28, 2020
Baked by Electricity
Downloads:

Windows (12MB installer)

Windows x64 (13MB installer)

OS X Intel (18MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (9MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions: enabling auto-scroll view during playback will auto-scroll to playback cursor if necessary
Actions: rename 'go to cursor' to 'go to edit cursor' for clarity
Actions: rename 'go to play position' to 'go to play cursor/position'
File copying: when making byte-for-byte copy of media, preserve file modification time ^.
macOS: add prefs/general/advanced options to disable mousewheel/swipe/move throttling
macOS: fix open-file window options on Catalina ^.
MIDI editor: prevent potential error when loading MIDI note names from file ^.
MIDI: properly display program names in arrange view for looped MIDI items
Projects: always refresh Track/Region/Marker Manager, Project Bay, etc when switching projects
ReaControlMIDI: fix loading of .ins files
ReaNINJAM: allow resize of connection window
ReaNINJAM: allow resize of interval position meter
ReaNINJAM: expose accessibility descriptions for mute/solo/volume/pan controls
ReaNINJAM: fix possible crash with truncated Vorbis streams
ReaNINJAM: local channel metering is now pre-fader (pre-pan pre-mute)
ReaNINJAM: reorganize local channel panel
ReaNINJAM: show connect/disconnect button on top left of main window
ReaNINJAM: add preference to disable flash beat counter every 16 beats
ReaScript: fix return values of various Set...Value APIs ^.
ReaVerb: regenerate impulse on the fly during slider movements, mousewheel ^.
ReaVerbate: fix reset of dampening filter
Ruler: mouse-modifier for copying regions without copying contents (Ctrl+Alt/Cmd+Opt) ^.
Track manager: notify control surfaces when changing selection
Track name editing: improve behavior when scrolling/zooming track panels ^.
Transport: fix jump to marker menu when the first region precedes the first marker
Windows: disable main window when using various file-browse windows, avoids silly Windows drag/drop behavior
Windows: improve appearance consistency of various file browsing windows
Windows: prevent drag/drop into main window when window is disabled/modal window is open

REAPER v6.04 - Feburary 21, 2020
By Grabthar's Hammer... What An Update
Downloads:

Windows (12MB installer)

Windows x64 (13MB installer)

OS X Intel (18MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (9MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

ARA: support media with different sample rates for ARA plugins like VocAlign
Automation items: add sine shape, tilt parameter
Control surfaces: preserve MCU/MCP mode across sessions (csurf section, mcu_mcp key)
Custom actions: add options to define when custom action toolbar buttons and menu items are displayed as enabled ^.
Envelopes: add actions to move active envelope fader, or selected envelope points, up or down a tiny bit
Envelopes: turn off track/send mute button when creating new mute envelope while muted, so it's not double-muted
JSFX: fix possible crash from concurrent random() calls
macOS: disable formatting in various text fields
macOS: faster listview updates
macOS: show open-project options on recent macOS versions by default
MIDI editor: add UI scaling support
MIDI editor: add basic CC LFO dialog
MIDI editor: add option to allow CC shape in bank and LSB lanes (CC0, CC32-63)
MIDI editor: display non-standard CC values in event list view ^.
MIDI editor: prevent multiple events at the same time position when creating saw LFO ^.
MIDI editor: respect default CC curve shape preference when inserting new event via action
MIDI editor: support entering note name directly in event properties dialog ^.
MIDI inline editor: DPI-scale CC lane resizers
Media items: fix erratic snap when source loop length is less than snap division ^.
Media items: inform user when auto-stretch timebase cannot be applied due to existing gradual tempo map ^.
Media items: when enabled, trim behind duplicated media items immediately after duplicating ^.
Mouse modifiers: add modifier to adjust loop section start/end by dragging media item contents
Mouse modifiers: add modifiers to adjust loop section length by dragging loop divider notch or item edges
Mouse modifiers: add modifier to draw selected media item, looping the visible or time-selected section
Performance meter: shorten text strings when very narrow
Project bay: display source offset, tempo, time signature for source media if applicable
Projects: store arrange view Y-scroll position in project
ReaNINJAM: improve status display/visual click
ReaScript: improve support for touch messages when using OscLocalMessageToHost() ^.
ReaTune: allow detection on very low pitches G-1..A0 with large window size
ReaTune: optionally limit output note range in automatic tuning mode
Render: display more accurate remaining render time when using region render matrix ^.
Render: force rendered sample rate to be compatible with stem file output format
Retina/HiDPI: generic FX UI font sizing improvements
Retina/HiDPI: track routing window font sizing improvements
Theme: omit IDE colors from theme element finder ^.
VST: fix VST3 .vstpreset loading
VST: fix interaction between automation items and VST3 parameters in certain cases ^.
VST: fix support for VST3 plugins that output MIDI via LegacyMIDICCOutEvent
VST: notify VST3 plug-ins of display DPI
Windows: improve font antialiasing size threshold on HiDPI
Windows: store TCP, FX browser, FX chain, media explorer pane sizes independent of DPI
Windows: add experimental Multimonitorv2 HiDPI awareness mode
Windows: improve checkbox appearance in various theme-colored windows

REAPER v6.03 - January 13, 2020
The Aristocrats!
Downloads:

Windows (12MB installer)

Windows x64 (13MB installer)

OS X Intel (18MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (9MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Actions: show custom action toggle state as enabled/disabled if all component actions that report a toggle state are enabled/disabled ^.
FX browser: improve mixed-state handling of plug-in options in context menus
FX chain: improve behavior with multimonitors at different DPIs
Knobs: use v5.x image selection behavior
Linux: fix listview header hit testing ^.
macOS: fix ReaTune scrollbar appearance issues
macOS: fix routing matrix/wiring diagram scrollbar appearance issues
macOS: improve appearance of static text fields when option to allow dark mode is enabled
macOS: optionally display last undo point in REAPER title bar
MIDI editor: add option to prevent mouse edits of single CC events from moving past other CC events
MIDI editor: double-click on CC lane header selects all events in lane
MIDI editor: improve visibility of note text in diamond or triangle view mode ^.
MIDI: preserve CC shapes when gluing items with timebase source beats ^.
Media explorer: fix memory leak when opening/closing window
Media items: add preference to set imported media items with embedded tempo to auto-stretch at project tempo changes
Media items: improve auto-stretch warp slope calculation with linear tempo changes ^.
OSC: fix divide by zero bugs when device sets bank size of zero ^.
ReaTune: improve correction tab drawing behavior when window is very small
Stretch markers: fix timing issues with tempo ramps and/or 0ms fade-times
Stretch markers: preserve beat-based positions of stretch markers when copy/pasting items with timebase beats
Toolbars: fix actions to press active toolbar button by position ^.
Toolbars: refresh toolbar after running any action via toolbar ^.
Toolbars: refresh toolbars after running any custom action ^.
Track panels: prevent meters from occluding track name when renaming tracks on Windows ^.
VST: add hasCockosSampleAccurateAutomation and hasCockosEmbeddedUI support for third-party plug-ins
Windows: fix truncated docker tabs with HiDPI
Windows: improve track/region manager HiDPI resize behaviors
Windows: improve screensets window HiDPI resize behavior
Windows: improve media explorer routing button HiDPI resizing
Windows: fix listview header hit testing with non-standard scalings

REAPER v6.02 - December 16, 2019
The Aristocrats!
Downloads:

Windows (12MB installer)

Windows x64 (13MB installer)

OS X Intel (18MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (20MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (9MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

ARA: add per-plugin menu item to force reanalysis of media (for example, after using external editor)
FX: switch active plug-in before showing context menu when right clicking in FX chain ^.
FX: improve automated parameter behavior when moving items with FX automation across tracks ^.
MIDI editor: do not reset velocity for new notes when editing in velocity lane, only when editing velocity on note directly or using reset mouse modifier ^.
MIDI editor: optimize CC lane drawing performance
MIDI editor: fix default CC shape not persisting when reopening REAPER
MIDI editor: fix first inserted CC event ignoring default curve shape in some situations ^.
MIDI editor: fix option to show note names on notes not persisting when reopening REAPER ^.
MIDI editor: fix right-click and double-click behavior in inline MIDI editor
MIDI editor: fix inline editor CC lane display when also showing media item lane in normal MIDI editor
MIDI editor: only draw filled CC envelope for the active channel in the active media item
MIDI editor: prevent flicker when scrolling editor in synced view mode ^.
MIDI editor: refresh open editors after changing default MIDI note colormap
MIDI editor: remove support for per-media-item note colormaps
MIDI editor: support marquee selection even if modifier key is released before mouse ^.
MIDI editor: sync timebase to arrange view without re-centering ^.
MIDI editor: improve text display of project markers/regions ^.
MIDI editor: when modifying CC lanes, update any inline editors
macOS: add experimental option to support dark mode on 10.14+ (in preferences/general/advanced)
Media items: optimize display of text notes in media items ^.
Mixer: fix incorrect track number being displayed in certain instances ^.
ReaSamplomatic5k: improve voice-reuse logic in certain voice-starved situations (old mode used on existing projects, additional hidden VST parameter)
ReaScript: add MARKER_GUID:X to get the unique identifier of a project marker or region ^.
ReaScript: remove support for deprecated/unused MIDI support file types
Retina/HiDPI: add hidpi images for generic UI sliders, track send sliders
Retina/HiDPI: improve marker/region display
Retina/HiDPI: improve transport buttons in media explorer/MIDI editor/etc
Retina/HiDPI: improve MIDI editor track list display
Retina/HiDPI: improve diamond/triangle note appearance in MIDI editor
Retina/HiDPI: improve inline MIDI editor display
Tempo map: further improve behavior of actions to insert measure from loop selection ^.
Theme: Theme Adjuster supports ctrl+Z for undo
Theme: add new mono button image
Theme: add 5.0 toolbar images to 5.0 theme
Theme: add additional hidpi/retina images
Toolbars: improve close button/topmost pin positioning when floating
Toolbars: improve appearance/brightness of built-in buttons
Toolbars: allow resizing toolbar when frameless and very small
Tooltips: prevent stale tooltips from persisting when switching active windows
Tracks: disable playback offset by default (disabled is equivalent to enabled with zero offset)
Undo: improve FX parameter behavior when undoing the addition of envelopes/parameter modulation/LFO ^.
VST: add support for VST3 plugins that output MIDI CC data, via LegacyMIDICCOutEvent
VST: replace input audio rather than summing for VST3 instruments that have sidechain input but no main input ^.
VST: add Windows HiDPI compatibility setting that affects floating plug-in UIs
Web interface: avoid UI hangs when unable to resolve rc.reaper.fm
Windows: fix topmost pin bugs, auto-lower pinned windows while modal window is present
Windows: option to ignore alt-key presses affects FX chains, FX browser, Video, Media Explorer windows
Windows: improve Windows IAccessible support for STATE_SYSTEM_FOCUSED

REAPER v6.0 - December 3, 2019
The Aristocrats!
Downloads:

Windows (11MB installer)

Windows x64 (13MB installer)

OS X Intel (17MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (19MB DMG)

OS X 64-bit Intel (19MB DMG, notarized for Catalina)

Linux x86_64 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux i686 (11MB .tar.xz)

Linux armv7l (9MB .tar.xz)

Linux aarch64 (9MB .tar.xz)

Changes:

Defaults: enable Live FX multiprocessing by default
Defaults: enable track record monitoring on new tracks by default
Defaults: set volume envelopes to fader scaling by default
Dynamic split: add preset support
Dynamic split: overhaul and improvements to algorithm and gate handling
Dynamic split: retain settings after canceling the window
FX: allow embedding some plug-in UIs into track and mixer control panels
FX: support embedding UIs for ReaEQ, ReaXComp, ReaComp, ReaSurround, and graphical JSFX
FX: add preference to display FX list on right side of FX chain window
FX: add preference to display add/delete buttons above list in FX chain window
Import: handle WAV and AIFF (Apple Loops) files containing transient information similarly to REX files
MIDI editor: display and edit CC/velocity as dots and lines, CCs as linear and curved envelopes, similar to track envelopes
MIDI editor: add note-type buttons to default toolbar
MIDI editor: add option to display note length in velocity lane
MIDI editor: add option to move bank/program change events with notes
MIDI editor: add preference to automatically reduce CC events when drawing
MIDI editor: combine note properties and event properties into one modeless dialog
MIDI editor: add mouse modifiers to reset CC/velocity to default values
MIDI editor: make default CC event and CC lane mouse modifiers more like default envelope behaviors
MIDI editor: repopulate raw MIDI data display window when switching active media item
Main window: support positioning track control panels on right side of arrange
Media import: properly adjust length of imported media with embedded tempo when crossing project tempo changes
Media import: support adjusting media based on tempo suggested by filename
Media items: add new "Beats (auto-stretch at tempo changes)" timebase
Media items: add action to add stretch markers at project tempo changes
Media items: add action to recalculate automatic stretch markers at project tempo changes
Media items: add action to convert embedded source media transient information to transient guides
Media items: optionally create transient guides on import for media with embedded transient information
Media items: support calculating playback rate from user-supplied tempo or length in beats
Media items: when copy/pasting items with stretch markers, preserve the original play rate
Menus: very lightly refresh main file/edit/view/insert menus
Modal windows: remember window positions (configurable option in preferences/general/advanced to tweak behavior)
Mouse modifiers: add double-click behaviors to reset CC value, curvature, edit properties
Mouse modifiers: add preference to draw/edit CC events immediately on mouse click
Multiprocessing: auto-detect up to 128 threads
Multiprocessing: increase anticipative FX hard limit to 128 threads, live FX hard limit to 64 threads
Multiprocessing: remove old 4.x scheduler mode, non-event synchronization modes
Notation editor: support customized staff and note context menus
Performance: improve performance and reduce system resource consumption with large track counts
Performance: add option in disk settings to periodically close excess open files
Performance: add option to read peaks files under a certain size completely to RAM (to reduce open file count)
REX: add option to ignore all embedded slice and tempo information
ReaFIR: add context menu mode configuration
ReaScript: add MIDI_GetCCShape, MIDI_SetCCShape
ReaScript: add support for CC shapes to MIDI_Get(Set)AllEvts
ReaScript: add support for setting track playback offset value and attributes
ReaScript: add support for user-defined note and track notation data that is not displayed
ReaScript: fix setting MIDI meta-messages via API
ReaScript: add reduce_open_files() utility function for users running up against open file handle limitations
Render: include all options in "options and format" render presets
Render: optionally embed transient information into WAV or AIFF files
Render: support embedding tempo into AIFF files
Render: support rendering only selected regions in an existing region render matrix ^.
Render: when enabled, embed exact tempo of rendered item/time
Resampling: added SSE2-optimized sinc calculation (from Theo Niessink)
Resampling: optimize and greatly improve quality of resampling for conversion between common rates
Routing: add track wiring view
Theming: new Default 6.0 theme with theme adjuster script allowing for extensive customization of the new default theme
Theming: layout DPI translation for HiDPI/Retina displays
Theming: apply main window size area theme element only on mouseover
Theming: improve theme rendering appearance when using custom UI scaling
Theming: apply advanced preference UI scaling changes immediately
Theming: replace tcp.dragdropchild with tcp.dragdropinfo [indent_sibling_track indent_child_track]
Theming: add additional 8 WALTER font slots
Theming: add support for midi_score_colormap, in addition to midi_note_colormap
Toolbars: actions to switch last focused toolbar will default to switching main toolbar
Toolbars: improve HiDPI/Retina support (toolbar_icons/ can have 150/ and 200/ subdirs)
Tracks: support positive or negative playback time offset without affecting PDC
Tracks: add action to bypass track playback offset
Tracks: add user preference for max MIDI playback speed to catch up to negative track playback offset
VST3: support plugins that export MIDI note names
Windows: HiDPI awareness and display improvements (auto-rescale more UI when running HiDPI aware)
Windows: improve appearance of docker, ReaPlugs, and other windows when resizing
macOS: Retina display arrange, ruler, MIDI editor, etc
macOS: use Metal display output on 10.11+ for various windows
macOS: add options in Preferences/General/Advanced to disable Retina support, disable Retina for non-Retina theme elements
macOS: support REX files on macOS Catalina
macOS: work around appearance issues when user forces dark mode rendering for app (requires Metal to be enabled) ^.