REAPER 3.05 Beta / 3.01

Major Features:

1. Easy to use: Equally usable by hobby users and professionals alike. Simply drag and drop one of many kinds of files in to edit existing material, or insert a track and arm it for recording. No complex project settings or definitions are required.
2. Extremely small footprint: REAPER is full featured, but its installer is barely over 1 megabyte. It starts and closes fast, and is easily installed on new systems or on portable drives.
3. Fast and powerful editing facilities: Split, resize, fade/crossfade, pitch shift, timestretch, copy/paste and loop media items with ease. Ripple editing is available, too.
4. Unrivaled routing capabilities: Send tracks to any number of other tracks or hardware outputs, with lots of options (pre-fx, post-fx, independent faders, mono or stereo). Not interested in advanced routing? You don't have to use it (and it certainly wont get in the way.)
5. Powerful recording options: Supports pre-fx, post-fx recording, can record mixed output of multiple tracks, etc, supports switching record inputs/modes on the fly, input monitoring options (including tape-style auto input monitoring mode), supports auto-punch-in/punch-out, and more. If you want. Otherwise, it just behaves as you would expect.
6. Wide open compatibility: Sane, human readable, human editable project file format. Support for reading and writing many common file formats. Support for consolidating track edits and rendering track stems, to enable easy export for other applications. EDL import/export for Samplitude and Vegas.
7. MIDI support: Support for MIDI files, recording MIDI, and VSTi/DXi softsynths. MIDI can be integrated and mixed with audio.
8. Customizeable user interface: User arrangeable user interface with color themes: make REAPER look how you want it to look, and arrange (or hide) elements of the user interface to suit your needs.
9. Bundled Effects and 3rd party plug-in Support: Includes built in effects including a compressor, gate, FFT EQ, and some basic synthesizers, and includes many Jesusonic effects, and supports many plug-ins (including VST and DX plug-ins) with full plug-in delay compensation.

Enhancements:

• Significant audio processing performance improvements, especially in larger projects
• FX processing improvements for all Cockos plugins
• Processing performance improvements for MIDI-only tracks
• Significant graphics optimizations
• Pasting items in large projects is faster
• Fixed dragging items vertically across multiple tracks
• Media explorer remembers the last directory visited when reopened
• Global automation override is saved with project
• JS sysex support: midisyx(frameoffset,msgbuf,len)
• FX parameter adjustment undo point is set immediately if the plugin informs the host the move is done
• Fixed random creation of different-length takes in loop recording
• Faster bulk-arming of tracks via action
• Seek is less likely to unnecessarily scroll the view
• Properly resize last track in folder when compacting
• FX quick-add menu contents are sorted alphabetically
• Safer VST unloading while playing
• Use envelope lane button hover states
• Dont allow dragging a folder track into its own children
• Copy MIDI item editor settings (note shape, etc) when copying MIDI items
• Dont autoclose audio device when media explorer is previewing
• Fixed waveout/directsound issues on failed initialization
• Better folder remembering on render/consolidate, better default record path (rather than path to app)
• MIDI editor: option to set default color map (in prefs/media/midi)
• Support for mcp_master_sendlist_* theme images
• ReaTune updates for multiple project and better take-fx support in manual mode, slight visual overhaul
• Color-themeable fade area shading for media items
• Color-themeable blinking edit cursor
• Optional color-themeable play cursor (with width control)
• Themes can set blend mode on fade handle edges/snap offset drawing
• More efficient time selection highlight drawing in default theme
• Fixed action for toggle recarm on all selected tracks
• Better cue label positioning for stereo items etc
• Actions to toggle item normalize/multiple item normalize, un-normalize
• Special-case mutexing for ET-200/Rez/Oatmeal, generalizable on request for other plug-ins
• Will now prompt you to select an audio device if you have not yet selected one
• OSX: better view of some unthemed windows in docker
• OSX: better AU initialization for some plugins
• Improved tempo/time signature marker editing behavior
• Open file in external editor supports unicode filenames
• Custom toolbar icon assigned to "bounce live output to disk" will light up while recording
• Preference whether to auto-show FX window after adding via quick-add menu
• Warn if unable to save changes because project file is read-only
• Fix for problems unloading plugins that run message loop during effClose (i.e. Guru)
• Fixed bug with mixed native/OS text rendering colors being incorrect

Requirements:

• Minimum system: 500mhz processor, 128MB RAM, 10MB free disk space, 800x600 in 256 colors or higher
• Recommended system: Multiple processors, 1GB RAM, >1GB free disk space, 1280x1024 in 16.7M colors