Cockos has released Reaper 4, a complete multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment for Windows and Mac.
Reaper 4 is described as an evolutionary, rather than a revolutionary, upgrade:
Reaper 4 is not a radically new experience from Reaper 3, but adds a number of useful new features, ease of use improvements, and even more of that legendary Reaper customizability.
Here’s the rundown on what’s new in Reaper 4:
- Dockers and toolbars are freely dockable in main window or floatable (up to 16 separate dockers/toolbars)
- Drag tabs from a docker to rearrange tabs, create a new docker in another location, or float windows
- Create, customize, and freely dock or float toolbars for different uses
- Envelope editing
- Support for copying envelope points with the mouse
- Groups of selected points act like contiguous items when moving or copying
- Shift+control+drag on envelope segment (customizable) edits the envelope level within the time selection
- Media Explorer preview time selection
- Select a portion of a media file to insert into a project
- Optionally loop and/or stretch the selected portion to fit the destination area and tempo
- Scroll and zoom the media peaks preview
- Control+alt drag the time selection to render a new cropped file to REAPER, the desktop, or a folder
- Control+alt drag the time selection to sampler plugins or other applications that support drag/drop
- Media Item Properties dialog
- Item/Take Properties dialog stays open while you work elsewhere, follows changes in selected items
- Pitch adjust and playrate fields accept values (such as “1.004”) or simple operations (such as “x2”)
- MIDI editing
- Set user-definable scales and chords in the MIDI editor for drawing and editing notes
- Using mouse modifiers, copy/duplicate/paste actions can create pooled (ghosted) in-project MIDI source data
- Editing any pooled MIDI media item affects all media items that share the same pooled data
- Un-pool shared MIDI by gluing the media item or via MIDI source properties dialog
- New MIDI Contents menu for switching MIDI editor between different MIDI media items in the project
- MIDI filter improvements when displaying multiple media items in the same editor
- Many new mouse modifier behaviors to paint notes and chords, edit arpeggios, etc
- Mouse modifier customization
- Customize mouse behavior when using keyboard modifiers in 40 different contexts
- In many contexts, mouse click and mouse drag can be customized separately
- Assign different behaviors to the mouse when over the top or bottom half of a media item
- Assign any action (including custom actions) to mouse click or double-click in most contexts
- Existing/legacy mouse preferences are preserved, but user changes to mousemap settings will override
- Actions to reassign default mouse action for any context
- Lots of customizable choices of behavior, for example:
- Move/copy just the selected area of media items, or all selected media items
- Edit edges/fades for all selected items, or just those whose edges line up
- Adjust media item volume or pitch
- Move envelope points or MIDI notes/CC just horizontally or vertically
- Assign marquee selection to left-click
- Assign hand-drag-scroll to right-click
- Many other customizable behaviors (50 behaviors just for media items)
- Multichannel track monitoring/input recording/routing
- Allow choosing greater than 2 channels of input (inputs must be sequential, though)
- Multichannel track meters
- Freely route any number of track channels to other tracks, hardware outputs
- Pitch shift envelopes
- Each take gets its own pitch shift envelope, including customized range and snap settings
- Project Bay
- Manage, preview, search, replace project source media, media items, and FX
- Manage media item groups and take comps for the project
- Save/load project bay contents to create working sets of source media/FX for different purposes
- Store sets of edited media items (including fades, stretch, pitch shift, etc) to use in any project
- Media and FX+preset combinations can be stored, inserted, and switched in the project
- ReaSurround: multi-channel surround panner with support for any number of input channels and speakers
- Freely position input sources and speakers in 3D space
- Configurable per-channel diffusion (treat input source audio as a shaped area rather than a point)
- Drag track IO button to ReaSurround to add new input sources
- Render and batch-convert improvements
- Support for rendering project tracks and time regions to separate folders and files
- Customizable wildcards provide great flexibility in naming batches of rendered/converted files
- Save render presets for workflow efficiency
- Take lanes and comping
- Take lanes remain aligned by recording pass, creating empty lanes as needed (optional)
- Each recording pass gets its own take lane, even when recording overlaps existing items
- Recording no longer splits existing media items into different numbers of take lanes
- Save/load named comps (sets of takes from multiple media items)
- A/B or cycle through saved comps to audition/compare
- Theme layout support (WALTER)
- Per-track TCP/MCP layout support
- Screensets support saving/restoring layouts
- Old themes use default layouts available in Plugins/default_layouts.txt
- New themes can define their own layouts
- Layouts can be switched via menu, screensets/layouts dialog, or customizable actions
- See: http://www-dev.reaper.fm/sdk/walter/walter.php
- Time selection
- Default copy/cut/glue actions respect time selection if there is one (including leading/trailing space)
- Using mouse modifiers, copy/move behaviors can respect time selection if there is one
- Editing behavior can be customized separately for media items, envelope points, MIDI editing
- Track input FX chain support
- FX in the input FX chain only run when record armed, and only affect the signal coming in
- Input MIDI or audio, and set recording to be MIDI or audio independent of the input format
- Track pan improvements
- Track stereo width controls and envelopes
- Configurable track pan modes: balance, stereo pan (L/R width), dual pan, and classic (3.x) balance
- Transient detection and Dynamic Split improvements
- Separate threshold and sensitivity settings, and other options
- Video: many performance improvements, support for sequencing still images
- Volume faders: new default hardware-emulation fader taper
Reaper 4 is available now for $60/225. See the Cockos site for details.
Total respect. 2011 totally the year of big releases.
I don't own nor use Reaper but I do use ever so much their freely released plugin suite. If you're a what I like to call sound tweaker then this is invaluable material:
http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/index.php
The ReaPlugs suite.
Biased comment? I guess. But THIS is the main comparison IMO between a company which means well and a company which says to.
Ok, more spam if allowed: check the main Cockos website here:
http://www.cockos.com/
Yes; they're also behind Winamp & Gnutella. Struck me too to be honest (I don't really keep up).
Why I say to think they mean well?
Simple. Check the website. I can say from personal experience that it got a facelift. Looks more "clean" and "shiney" now; what perfect way to diss the old stuff and continue with the way WE see things through.
uh uh uh…..
Nope. This stuff is dated (17/02/2010 (European notation;sorry (not really ;-))). The website has been redone (to go with the new release no doubt) and STILL:
http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/index.php
That link works (at the time of writing)! If you're a sound tweaker you'd better check this link out. ReaComp or ReaXcomp? awesome. ReaJS ? Priceless; and STILL available. For free.
And NOW think what power this "simple" sequencer might have in store for you after you checked this setup out.
As said: total respect here. Die hard Live/Reason/Max user but I recognize quality when I see it!
Total respect. 2011 totally the year of big releases.
I don't own nor use Reaper but I do use ever so much their freely released plugin suite. If you're a what I like to call sound tweaker then this is invaluable material:
http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/index.php
The ReaPlugs suite.
Biased comment? I guess. But THIS is the main comparison IMO between a company which means well and a company which says to.
Ok, more spam if allowed: check the main Cockos website here:
http://www.cockos.com/
Yes; they're also behind Winamp & Gnutella. Struck me too to be honest (I don't really keep up).
Why I say to think they mean well?
Simple. Check the website. I can say from personal experience that it got a facelift. Looks more "clean" and "shiney" now; what perfect way to diss the old stuff and continue with the way WE see things through.
uh uh uh…..
Nope. This stuff is dated (17/02/2010 (European notation;sorry (not really ;-))). The website has been redone (to go with the new release no doubt) and STILL:
http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/index.php
That link works (at the time of writing)! If you're a sound tweaker you'd better check this link out. ReaComp or ReaXcomp? awesome. ReaJS ? Priceless; and STILL available. For free.
And NOW think what power this "simple" sequencer might have in store for you after you checked this setup out.
As said: total respect here. Die hard Live/Reason/Max user but I recognize quality when I see it!
Total respect. 2011 totally the year of big releases.
I don't own nor use Reaper but I do use ever so much their freely released plugin suite. If you're a what I like to call sound tweaker then this is invaluable material:
http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/index.php
The ReaPlugs suite.
Biased comment? I guess. But THIS is the main comparison IMO between a company which means well and a company which says to.
Ok, more spam if allowed: check the main Cockos website here:
http://www.cockos.com/
Yes; they're also behind Winamp & Gnutella. Struck me too to be honest (I don't really keep up).
Why I say to think they mean well?
Simple. Check the website. I can say from personal experience that it got a facelift. Looks more "clean" and "shiney" now; what perfect way to diss the old stuff and continue with the way WE see things through.
uh uh uh…..
Nope. This stuff is dated (17/02/2010 (European notation;sorry (not really ;-))). The website has been redone (to go with the new release no doubt) and STILL:
http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/index.php
That link works (at the time of writing)! If you're a sound tweaker you'd better check this link out. ReaComp or ReaXcomp? awesome. ReaJS ? Priceless; and STILL available. For free.
And NOW think what power this "simple" sequencer might have in store for you after you checked this setup out.
As said: total respect here. Die hard Live/Reason/Max user but I recognize quality when I see it!
Total respect. 2011 totally the year of big releases.
I don't own nor use Reaper but I do use ever so much their freely released plugin suite. If you're a what I like to call sound tweaker then this is invaluable material:
http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/index.php
The ReaPlugs suite.
Biased comment? I guess. But THIS is the main comparison IMO between a company which means well and a company which says to.
Ok, more spam if allowed: check the main Cockos website here:
http://www.cockos.com/
Yes; they're also behind Winamp & Gnutella. Struck me too to be honest (I don't really keep up).
Why I say to think they mean well?
Simple. Check the website. I can say from personal experience that it got a facelift. Looks more "clean" and "shiney" now; what perfect way to diss the old stuff and continue with the way WE see things through.
uh uh uh…..
Nope. This stuff is dated (17/02/2010 (European notation;sorry (not really ;-))). The website has been redone (to go with the new release no doubt) and STILL:
http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/index.php
That link works (at the time of writing)! If you're a sound tweaker you'd better check this link out. ReaComp or ReaXcomp? awesome. ReaJS ? Priceless; and STILL available. For free.
And NOW think what power this "simple" sequencer might have in store for you after you checked this setup out.
As said: total respect here. Die hard Live/Reason/Max user but I recognize quality when I see it!
Total respect. 2011 totally the year of big releases.
I don't own nor use Reaper but I do use ever so much their freely released plugin suite. If you're a what I like to call sound tweaker then this is invaluable material:
http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/index.php
The ReaPlugs suite.
Biased comment? I guess. But THIS is the main comparison IMO between a company which means well and a company which says to.
Ok, more spam if allowed: check the main Cockos website here:
http://www.cockos.com/
Yes; they're also behind Winamp & Gnutella. Struck me too to be honest (I don't really keep up).
Why I say to think they mean well?
Simple. Check the website. I can say from personal experience that it got a facelift. Looks more "clean" and "shiney" now; what perfect way to diss the old stuff and continue with the way WE see things through.
uh uh uh…..
Nope. This stuff is dated (17/02/2010 (European notation;sorry (not really ;-))). The website has been redone (to go with the new release no doubt) and STILL:
http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/index.php
That link works (at the time of writing)! If you're a sound tweaker you'd better check this link out. ReaComp or ReaXcomp? awesome. ReaJS ? Priceless; and STILL available. For free.
And NOW think what power this "simple" sequencer might have in store for you after you checked this setup out.
As said: total respect here. Die hard Live/Reason/Max user but I recognize quality when I see it!
Total respect. 2011 totally the year of big releases.
I don't own nor use Reaper but I do use ever so much their freely released plugin suite. If you're a what I like to call sound tweaker then this is invaluable material:
http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/index.php
The ReaPlugs suite.
Biased comment? I guess. But THIS is the main comparison IMO between a company which means well and a company which says to.
Ok, more spam if allowed: check the main Cockos website here:
http://www.cockos.com/
Yes; they're also behind Winamp & Gnutella. Struck me too to be honest (I don't really keep up).
Why I say to think they mean well?
Simple. Check the website. I can say from personal experience that it got a facelift. Looks more "clean" and "shiney" now; what perfect way to diss the old stuff and continue with the way WE see things through.
uh uh uh…..
Nope. This stuff is dated (17/02/2010 (European notation;sorry (not really ;-))). The website has been redone (to go with the new release no doubt) and STILL:
http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/index.php
That link works (at the time of writing)! If you're a sound tweaker you'd better check this link out. ReaComp or ReaXcomp? awesome. ReaJS ? Priceless; and STILL available. For free.
And NOW think what power this "simple" sequencer might have in store for you after you checked this setup out.
As said: total respect here. Die hard Live/Reason/Max user but I recognize quality when I see it!
I record in live, and now mix in reaper, joy.