Cockos has announced the update of its marvellous sequencer Reaper to version 3.04.
Changes :
• Joystick MIDI improvements (modeless config, submodes, etc.).
• Allow ctrl+drag copy of selected areas of items even with very small selections.
• Actions: split selected items at project markers, split selected items at grid.
• Action: remove content behind selected items (shift-X by default).
• Crossfade selected items action allows time selection that is completely within both items.
• Fixed bug with render dialogs render master not being restored from configuration.
• ReaDelay: fixed label of delay length (from QN to 8N).
• Fixed some bugs relating to Unicode conversions when getting long UI strings.
• OSX: fixed sending 1 and 2 byte messages to MIDI hardware.
• Ctrl+drag (pencil mode) creates empty MIDI item if no item is selected.
• SiF meters now show actual signal.
• Batch rendering will no longer show save prompt/project properties if preference set.
• MIDI editor: fixed sorting and mouse hit testing of overlapping notes.
• MIDI editor: Undo/redo of certain actions from within editor updates cached note names.
• MIDI editor: fixed scroll issues with last clicked note selection.
• MIDI editor: notes are not created when dragging vertically.
• MIDI editor: action to cycle through multiple items loaded in one editor (alt+N by default).
• MIDI editor: better paste edit cursor behavior with looped items.
• Menu bar shows recording format, device settings, optionally free disk space including time.
• Normalize as much as +120dB (up from +36dB).
• Allow resizing tracks in folder compact (not supercompact) mode.
• Toolbar icons show current state for many global toggle actions.
• Fixed relative filename item paste issues (when option to use relative files before fully qualified path is set).
• Disabling record arm for tracks now sends all notes off.
• New JS: adpcm_simulator.
• Fixed project load splash screen leak.
• Better track vertical resize behaviors with varying arrange view sizes.
• Fixed open performance meter causing crashes in certain instances.
• VST: Support for plug-ins with Unicode filenames.
• VST: UAD plug-ins always get constant blocksizes (so that they can loop without extra latency).
• VST: extra UAD mutexing on opening of UI.
Please note that Mac versions are only available as beta.