REAPER version 5.17 is out today and it adds a ton of great features and workflow improvements in addition to a bunch of bug fixes.
Highlights include: new automation actions; discarding incomplete takes; low-res peak option for video clips.
I’ll have a video up tomorrow morning showing some of these new features.
Changelog:
v5.17 – March 24 2016
+ AU: improve graphical issues with certain Apple AUs [t=174068]
+ Actions: more accurate naming of various nudge dialog actions [t=174350]
+ Automation: added actions for writing latched envelopes to time selection/start of project/end of project
+ Automation: avoid creating duplicate automation return envelope points
+ Item colors: fix cross-platform color issues [t=173794]
+ JSFX: allow pin connection edits via IO button context menu
+ JSFX: improve support for swapped mouse buttons
+ Lock: marker/region lock obeyed during ripple edit all/insert time/delete time [p=1650970]
+ MIDI: fix explode item channels (via action and/or import) with tempo maps
+ MIDI: fix potential deadlock when overdub recording [p=1651334]
+ MIDI: fix split notes action on looped items [t=173907]
+ MIDI: improve tick position display rounding [t=174416]
+ MIDI: improve file-based MIDI editor undo
+ MIDI: improve time selection autopunch in overdub/replace modes
+ MIDI: prevent input quantizing past loop end/punch region
+ Media import: detect and use identical files in project path
+ Media import: detect junctions when determining when to copy files
+ Navigator: fix play cursor update on OS X 10.11
+ Navigator: use item/take colors if configured to do so in arrange
+ Pan: support -6.02dB pan law [t=165955]
+ Preferences: fix search highlight on OS X 10.11
+ Project bay: auto-rename files to avoid collisions when copying to media path
+ Project bay: detect junctions/identical files when copying to project path
+ Project save: detect and use identical files when using save-as with media copy
+ Project save: detect junctions when determining which files to copy to project path [t=173508]
+ Project tabs: fix display issue when toggling always show project tabs [t=174019]
+ Project tabs: switch samplerate when switching tabs if run background projects is not set [t=169915]
+ ReWire: add extra step to initialization process to make Waves Tune not warn of error
+ ReaEQ: improve appearance of gain labels in graph
+ ReaScript: extend gfx.init/gfx.dock to support save/restore undocked window position
+ ReaScript: fix Python reentrancy issue [t=174447]
+ ReaScript: gfx.dock() returns last docked state when docked windows are closed by user
+ ReaScript: improve support for swapped mouse buttons in gfx
+ ReaTune: default to Elastique3 Soloist for new instances
+ ReaTune: fix excessive noteoff sending [t=168490]
+ Recording: add option for discard incomplete take threshold
+ Recording: improve behavior with loop recording and item autopunch
+ Recording: item autopunch falls back to normal recording per-track when recording does not intersect item
+ Recording: item autopunch respects discard partial take option
+ Recording: show MIDI peaks when using replace mode and item autopunch [t=174360]
+ Ripple editing: fix insert time/region copy issues [t=173460]
+ Ripple editing: improve behavior when adding media via drag and drop or insert file
+ Routing matrix: correct and improve tooltip for hardware outputs [t=174519]
+ Routing matrix: show F in parent send for items that are children of folder
+ Routing matrix: show parent track destination in tooltips [t=173678]
+ Routing: show parent track destinations in track I/O panel [t=173678]
+ Samplerate conversion: use render setting on glue/apply FX/render take [t=167489]
+ Sends/hardware outputs: fix non-boost pan laws for newer pan modes [p=1645781]
+ Subprojects: avoid rerendered deferred-render subprojects when activating application
+ Subprojects: improved plug-in compatibility with auto-render on OSX [t=174156]
+ Subprojects: option to leave auto-opened projects open in tab after render [t=174156]
+ Super8: add click output
+ Take FX: fix possibly incorrect samplerate used for automation purposes when rendering
+ Take FX: improve synchronization of automation with delay compensated plug-ins, use old synchronization when loading existing take FX chains
+ Tempo map: fix errors introduced to tempo map when editing certain tempo markers (behavior changed in 5.16)
+ Themes: improve mixer display of tracks in folders with some themes [t=172972]
+ Video: add FFMPEG 3.0 support, remove support for FFMPEG 1.x
+ Video: global option for disabling hi-res peaks, individual instances can override [t=172693]
+ Video: improve end of stream in AVFoundation video writing
+ Video: update disk bandwidth stats when using ffmpeg/vlc/lcf/gif
+ Video: improve project-relative filename support
+ VST: never unload bridged VST plug-ins
+ Wave: fix cue timing issues above 2 billion samples
+ Wave: fixed slow parsing of large RF64 files
+ Wave: improve RF64 cue/region read/write
+ Wave: support Wave64 cue/region read/write