REAPER is an audio editor from the Cockos company, which amongst other products is responsible for the famous Winamp mp3 player. REAPER is a powerful Windows application for multitrack recording and editing of audio.
Main features:
# Portable – supports running from USB keys or other removable media
# 64 bit audio engine
# Excellent low-latency performance
# Multiprocessor capable
# Direct multi-track recording to many formats including WAV/BWF/W64, AIFF, WavPack, FLAC, OGG, and MIDI.
# Extremely flexible routing
# Fast, tool-less editing
# Supports a wide range of hardware (nearly any audio interface, outboard hardware, many control surfaces)
# Support for VST, VSTi, DX, DXi effects
# ReaPlugs: high quality 64 bit effect suite
# Tightly coded – installer is just over 2MB
This week REAPER got an update (v1.828):
* automation: touch recording now works for VST and JS FX
* automation: fixes to render-ahead use of automation
* automation: pre-fx envelopes are more accurate on MIDI data
* automation: option (prefs/editing behavior) to simplify envelope data when recording automation
* automation: fader track color for when in inactive touch/latch
* reaplugs: updated for touch automation from normal UI
* ReaFIR: better automation display/cpu use