REAPER Portable emerges as a robust yet remarkably efficient Windows application, designed for the intricate tasks of recording, arranging, editing, and rendering multi-track waveform audio. Despite its comprehensive feature set, it distinguishes itself as an exceptionally compact and lightweight program.
REAPER seamlessly integrates with ASIO, Kernel Streaming, WaveOut, and DirectSound for both playback and recording functionalities.
It exhibits broad compatibility by reading WAV, OGG, and MP3 files, while natively recording in the WAV format. Users gain unparalleled flexibility in arranging an unlimited number of audio elements across any number of tracks, with the added capability of employing a wide array of audio processing plug-ins, including DirectX and the native Jesusonic effects. Furthermore, REAPER provides granular control through per-track volume and pan adjustments, supported by intuitive envelopes. Its multi-layered undo/redo system ensures a safety net for creative exploration, and user-customizable color themes allow for a personalized workspace.
Without a doubt, REAPER stands as a prominent and powerful DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), celebrated for its extensive range of functions and operations. From synthesizing and composing to arranging tracks, editing, and mixing, all these capabilities are presented within a thoughtfully organized graphical user interface.
The All-Encompassing DAW Experience
Whether you're initiating a project from the ground up or importing existing audio or MIDI files, REAPER empowers you to enhance your sonic landscape with a variety of effects. The integrated plugin ecosystem enables the application of effects like reverb and delay, precise pitch correction, and a multitude of other sonic adjustments.
The recording function proves invaluable for capturing audio streams playing on your computer, while the ability to assign distinct colors to individual tracks significantly improves visual organization within complex projects.
As you navigate and master REAPER's diverse functionalities, you can further streamline your workflow by assigning personalized hotkeys to your most frequently used actions, thereby accelerating your creative process.
Integrated Audio Conversion and Renaming Tools
Beyond its already impressive suite of features, REAPER also incorporates a handy batch converter. This allows for the rapid encoding of selected tracks into a variety of formats, including WAV, AIFF, CAF, FLAC, CUE/BIN, MP3, and OGG.
To maintain consistent file naming, you can establish wildcard-based patterns for all generated tracks. Additionally, you have precise control over modifying the target sample rate, number of channels, and resampling modes to suit your specific needs. When handling metadata, REAPER offers the flexibility to either manually input new information or, where possible, preserve the original data embedded within the files.
Core Features at a Glance:
- Portable: Designed for operation directly from USB drives or other removable storage media.
- 64-bit Audio Engine: Ensures high-fidelity audio processing.
- Exceptional Low-Latency Performance: Crucial for real-time recording and monitoring.
- Multiprocessor Capable: Leverages your system's processing power for optimal performance.
- Direct Multi-track Recording: Supports a wide array of formats including WAV/BWF/W64, AIFF, WavPack, FLAC, OGG, and MIDI.
- Extremely Flexible Routing: Offers intricate control over audio signal flow.
- Fast, Tool-less Editing: Minimizes interruptions to your creative flow.
- Broad Hardware Compatibility: Works seamlessly with virtually any audio interface, external hardware, and numerous control surfaces.
- VST/VSTi/DX/DXi Effect Support: Integrates with a vast library of third-party audio plugins.
- ReaPlugs: A suite of high-quality, 64-bit native effects.
- Tightly Coded: The installer boasts a remarkably small footprint of just over 2MB.
Refined Editing Capabilities:
- Tool-less Mouse Interface: Reduces the need for constant tool switching, streamlining the editing process.
- Drag and Drop Import: Instantly bring files into your project with simple drag-and-drop functionality.
- Flexible Track Mixing: Supports mixing any combination of file types, sample rates, and bit depths on individual tracks.
- Effortless Item Manipulation: Easily split, move, and resize audio items.
- Intuitive Fades and Volume Control: Each item features easily adjustable fades and volume levels directly on the waveform.
- Tab to Transient Support: Quickly navigate to audio transients for precise editing.
- Configurable Automatic Crossfading: Smoothly blend overlapping audio items with customizable crossfade settings.
- Per-Item Pitch Shift and Time Stretch: Manipulate the pitch and tempo of individual audio items.
- Arbitrary Item Grouping: Organize and manipulate multiple items as a cohesive unit.
- Synchronized Markers and Envelopes: Markers and automation envelopes move logically in sync with editing operations.
- Ripple Editing: Optionally affect the positioning of subsequent items when moving or deleting others.
- Multiple Tempos and Time Signatures: Accommodate complex musical arrangements within a single project.
- Region-Based Project Definition and Editing: Define and manipulate sections of your project using regions.
- Automation Envelopes: Precisely control various parameters over time.
Reaper Portable Release Notes:
+ Actions: do not display extra message box when using new 'Save copy of project as (prompt with current name)' action + Audio Units: ensure MIDI events sent to plug-in are sorted + Big clock: support copying text to clipboard + Big clock: support double-clicking on region/marker color square to edit the region/marker + Click source: add setting to preserve click pitch when changing project playback rate [t=300144] + Click source: do not apply project or media item pitch shifting if click source setting to preserve pitch is enabled + Crossfade editor: add new graphical crossfade editor (thanks chmaha) + Crossfade editor: hold alt/opt key while editing crossfade intersection handle to keep left-right movement minimal + Crossfade editor: lower edge of fade start/end is mouse edit zone for crossfade width + Crossfade editor: mouse edit in combination lane is handled like an item move edit in arrange view (only one side of the crossfade moves) + Crossfade editor: support many context-specific actions and shortcut mappings (nudge, preview, align phase, etc) + Crossfade editor: add option (enabled by default) to color the entire item in the arrange view when using the crossfade editor + Crossfade editor: add theme images for navigation buttons + Crossfade editor: display signal correlation within crossfade area + Crossfade editor: support loading/saving snapshots + Crossfade editor: support locking left-hand item start time (edits are instead applied to the right-hand item in reverse) + Crossfades: allow changing either fade-in/out or crossfade shape via fade shape popup menu + Crossfades: respect preference to display crossfade handle when "offset overlapping items vertically" is enabled + Envelopes: fix envelope points possibly getting scrambled when editing point position via "set point value" dialog + Envelopes: support relative snap when moving envelope points, automation items + Joysticks: fix issues when re-enabling a joystick that was previously not found + Joysticks: update MIDI list when changing devices + Linux: add Joystick MIDI support + Localization: allow localizing MIDI note names + Localization: enhance per-control scaling to support x-position adjustment, width-shrinking, and y-growing of controls, via @id=scale,ysc=yscale,dx=moveamt + Localization: improve localization tweakability of media item properties window + Localization: support localizing ReaPlugs + Localization: fix development helper tooltip ID display for disabled controls on Windows + LV2: ensure MIDI events sent to plug-ins are sorted [t=300712] + macOS: fix inconsistencies with keyboard bindings after loading plug-ins that change locale (e.g. Kontakt7) + macOS: fix stale darkmode color of text controls in certain instances [t=300768] + Media explorer: when loading FXB/FXP, do not focus existing FX if already visible + Menu/toolbar customization window: fix flicker on Windows [t=300997] + Meters: fix mixer master gain reduction metering when master has a high channel count + MIDI: adjust item fixed-tempo setting when moving items across tracks to new timebases, auto-convert if possible + MIDI: improve behavior when importing, inserting, recording, gluing, or rendering MIDI on a track that has timebase set to time + MIDI: be a little more permissive when importing .mid files with oddly-formed MIDI track data, unterminated sysex messages + MIDI: change menu/action text to 'Time format: Measures.Beats.PPQ' from 'Time format: Measures.Beats.MIDI_ticks' + MIDI editor: omit view/editor state from undo points, reducing extra undo points in certain cases + MIDI editor: enabling 'snap relative to grid' disables absolute snapping for note-starts + MIDI editor: support relative snap for CC events + MIDI editor: improve behavior of actions to move cursor left/right by grid with 'snap to visible grid' enabled + Mouse modifiers: fix automation item double-click action binding + Mouse modifiers: exporting ReaScript to set modifiers supports updating correct toolbar in MIDI editor + Paste: fix MIDI PPQ snapping when pasting items in projects that have tempo changes + Peaks: fix dual-type peaks display when using item section/reverse (7.39 regression) + Peaks: fix peak edge drawing when using alpha < 1.0 + Peaks building: allow peaks of corrupted partial media to finish building (7.39 behavior change reverted) + Phase aligner: add new phase alignment action/dialog + Phase aligner: maximize phase correlation between media items and selected reference media items + Phase aligner: support batch processing, to phase-align multiple media items with multiple reference media items + Phase aligner: adjust grouped items when applying phase alignment + Project settings: fix save of default relative snap setting + Razor edits: add experimental option (reaper.ini areasel=2) to not merge adjacent selection regions + Razor edits: improve behavior with video items and automation lane razor edit edges + Razor edits: update toolbar when moving razor edit with ripple mouse modifier + ReaControlMIDI: improve macOS window sizing + ReaEQ: clean up UI layout, improve for localization + ReaNINJAM: add option to auto-assign remote channels/users to output channels + ReaNINJAM: add option to hide beat counter display + ReaNINJAM: allow configuration of remote output channels + ReaNINJAM: allow customizing bitrate for each local channel + ReaNINJAM: fix potential crash after first scan on macOS + ReaNINJAM: improve accessibility labels, remove various dividers from screenreader lists + ReaNINJAM: make plug-in i/o size configurable, allow configuration of output channels for metronome, local channels + ReaPlugs: allow mousewheel over most text fields to adjust value + ReaScript: add CrossfadeEditor_Show(), CrossfadeEditor_OnCommand() + ReaScript: document more RENDER_SETTINGS values + ReaScript: FX_GetNamedConfigParm() supports is_instrument + ReaScript: auto-cleanup reaper-extstate.ini if it contains many incorrectly-written lines + ReaScript: prevent writing invalid newline characters to reaper-extstate.ini via SetExtState() + ReaScript: update documentation for SetExtState() to reflect lack of support for newlines in persistent state + ReaSurroundPan: fix truncating utf-8 channel names + ReaVerb: fix issues with unicode filenames on Windows + Render window: add vertical scrollbar when used on very low resolution screens + RS5k: increase UI width + Ruler: fix potential hang in certain instances (7.19 regression) + Samplerate conversion: fix r8brain-free quality issues with playspeed changes and sub-128-sample blocksizes + Snapping: improve behavior of mouse-dependent start/end snapping (snaps to start unless in last 15% of item) + Theme: support maximum width for gain reduction meter in WALTER, as 4th coordinate of meter.vu.div + Wildcards: localize $localtime using REAPER localization rather than system locale + Wildcards: support $wildcard[<N] to limit the replacement text to N characters + Windows: remove ancient hardcoded ctrl+space playback binding (users should use global shortcuts instead)
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