Cockos releases REAPER v5.0

Cockos has released REAPER 5.0 for Mac OS X and Windows, which features many changes including VST3 plugin support.

Video:

• massive improvements to video support.
• allow user configurable video decoder priorities with per-file-extension controls.
• configurable video output display latency.
• dockable video window.
• per-source option to not decode audio for video files.
• pooled audio decoders, reducing RAM use for heavily edited videos.
• project framerate is used instead of media framerate to determine display timing.
• projects can now specify preferred video width/height/colorspace, resizing options.
• real-time programmable (EEL) effect processors insertable as track and item FX.
• support for AVFoundation video encoding/decoding on OS X 10.7+.

FX:

• per-take FX automation and MIDI learn support.
• browser smart folders (filter-folders).
• browser options to view JSFX by description and/or filename.
• support for parameters with inverted ranges.
• VST3 support, including sample-accurate automation.
• inform VST plug-ins of offline rendering state, by default.
• duplicating Take FX copies channel counts.
• user-adjustable parameter modulation LFO phase.

Media Explorer:

• added option 'Play through selected track'.
• search in subfolders.
• improved accessibility/tabbing navigation.
• fixed various UTF-8 issues on Windows ..
• fixed issues when using preserve-pitch and tempo-match options.
• fixed MIDI/OSC action binding.

ReaScript:

• integrated development environment (IDE) for running, editing, debugging scripts.
• IDE supports syntax highlighting, multiple editing panes, watch lists, structure matching, and more.
• integrated Lua 5.3 scripting support.
• EEL and Lua scripts can query various information (incl. MIDI/OSC input values) via get_action_context ().
• EEL/Lua graphics/UI API (gfx*) extensions.
• toggle state support (script toolbar buttons can have on/off states).

Automation:

• increased automation recording speed by 3x.
• internal changes and performance improvements to FX parameter automation.
• more consistent behavior when changing FX preset.
• new volume envelope mode that mimics track fader scaling.

JSFX:

• sample-accurate automation support.
• added support for inverted slider ranges.
• editor improvements (scrollbars, multiple editing panes, Ctrl+Mousewheel font size change).
• fixed potential crash from gfx_circle () with bad parameters .

Multichannel media:

• support Ambisonic WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE .wav files.
• improved zero crossing navigation.
• improved tab-to-transient behavior.
• improved support for chained OGG Vorbis files.

Default theme:

• extra fancy new theme.
• many layout choices for different uses (small, large, meters, live recording, media, item).
• better track panel and item tinting appearance.

Localization:

• language packs can specify scale for dialog windows using (for example) 5CA1E00000000000=xsc ysc.
• all codec (wav, video, mp3, etc) dialog boxes and related strings can now be translated.
• new template LangPack.

Metronome:

• configurable beat patterns.
• improved count-in behavior/quality.

MIDI:

• do not automatically enable MIDI vol/pan faders when creating MIDI-only sends/receives.
• note-off velocity support in piano roll and list view editors.

MIDI editor:

• added mouse modifiers to edit note edges ignoring selection.
• changed default note edge mouse modifiers to match default media item edge modifiers.
• optionally display project tempo and time signature markers in the ruler.

Performance:

• updated default worker thread scheduling logic for lower CPU use.
• disabled anticipative FX processing on tracks with open MIDI editors, by default.
• automatically disable anticipative FX in routed-to tracks for open MIDI editors.

Project Bay:

• new tab for managing FX parameter envelopes, modulation, and MIDI learn.
• fixed replace FX in project .
• fixed source/item/fx deletion and undo issues .

ReaPlugs:

• improved touch-automation behavior for various check/combo/edit controls.
• improved ReaInsert behavior in many real world scenarios (PDC, looping, heavy load).

Ruler:

• improved display for frame grid and HH:MM:SS:FF.
• absolute frames time display mode.

Theming:

• added theme tweak window (and removed outdated preferences pane).
• improved theme color tinting support (requires 'version 5' in rtconfig, themes can override tint/peaks preferences via rtconfig 'tinttcp' and 'peaksedges').
• scrollbar_2 and scrollbar_3 images can override scrollbar images for arrange and MIDI editor respectively.

Time Map:

• better behavior when changing time signatures.
• improved behavior when inserting/removing time in project (fixed auto-create of new time signature markers).
• improved time signature behavior when moving/copying regions.

Undo:

• options to include envelope point selection in undo state.
• improved FX envelope undo behavior.

Actions:

• added propagate take and propagate item actions.

ASIO:

• support for up to 512 channels of input and output.

Configuration import/export:

• optionally include media explorer databases.

EDL:

• support for VIDEO media type in Vegas EDL TXT.

Mouse:

• ignore mouse wheel on all faders, by default.

Opus support:

• full decode/encode support for OGG Opus files.

Ripple editing:

• removing time in one-track and all-track mode better respects timebase:beats preferences for markers, items, and envelopes.

Stretch Markers:

• improved behavior when changing tempo map/moving items across tempo maps.

Toolbars:

• up to 16 general and 8 MIDI toolbars.

Track grouping:

• VCA slave track group setting.

Windows:

• fixed color picker potentially appearing offscreen.

API:

• added Envelope, Tempo Map, Project Extension State, improved MIDI and Toolbar APIs.