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Just saying...

Reaper is well known and famous for its frequent updates. For what can be concidered a mature product, V1 released V1 in 12/2005, these new features and bug fixes are epic with each update. Reaper V6 released on Dec 7, 2019. So 74 updates in past 3 years 2 Months.

By the way, the [t=#] at the end of many lines identifies the bug/request to allow traceability. Here is todays update:


REAPER 6.74 is available, with the following updates:
+ Accessibility: improve descriptions of ReaEQ/ReaPitch/ReaDelay enabled buttons
+ Accessibility: improve ordering of controls in GetUserInputs() API
+ Accessibility: set description for FX active (bypass) checkbox
+ Accessibility: improve keyboard navigation/screen reader behavior for sends in track routing menu
+ Accessibility: improve screen reader behavior for hardware output list in track routing menu
+ Accessibility: add higher-contrast default I-Beam (time selection) cursor
+ Actions: add action to play/stop (move edit cursor on stop)
+ Actions: respect group-disable setting in action to duplicate items [t=272939]
+ Actions: improve description of action to glue items to match menu description [t=275171]
+ Actions window: add join/heal, during/while as default synonyms
+ Actions window: update toggle states in response to actions [t=247947]
+ Actions window: when sorting by command ID, sort by identifier string [t=275016]
+ API: add midi editor play cursor preview override API for PlayTime
+ API: avoid performance issues due to old SWS versions flooding with calls to RefreshToolbar()
+ API: SetMouseModifier(ctx,-1,-1) will reset all modifiers to default for that context; SetMouseModifier(-1,-1,-1) will reset all modifiers to default for all contexts
+ API: add GetInputActivityLevel()
+ API: add support for audio control signal x2/y2 parameters in FX_GetNamedConfigParm() [t=274236]
+ Audio Units: fixed bridged plug-in parameter unit names and tail time change detection
+ Audio Units: respond to kAudioUnitProperty_ParameterList to update parameter list at plug-in request
+ Audio Units: support custom string displays for parameters [p=2456294]
+ CLAP: fix default path list on Windows [t=274405]
+ CLAP: support text_to_value to improve manual editing of envelope point parameters
+ Defaults: change snap-to-nearby-media-items to by default only snap to items on the same track as the current item
+ Dynamic split: respect track edit grouping when splitting grouped items
+ Envelope point editor: fix disappearing shapes after editing tempo/mute envelopes
+ Filtering: fix matching of accented characters at start of search filter
+ Filtering: support matching Unicode Latin Extended-A characters when searching for unaccented characters
+ Freeze: when freezing, preserve MIDI-only receives [t=275106]
+ Freeze: when freezing to mono/stereo, preserve audio sidechain receives [t=275106]
+ FX chain window: add menu item to cut FX including automation
+ FX chain window: improve list focus behavior when renaming instance
+ Grouping: reset automatic track grouping to default when creating new project
+ Group manager: fix redundant refreshes
+ IDEs: improve international keyboard support
+ IDEs: improve home-key behavior (thanks Giorgos Vougioukas)
+ IDEs: fix inconsistency in column indicators, improve behavior of Ctrl+End (thanks Giorgos Vougioukas)
+ IDEs: improve autocomplete behavior when using EEL2 namespaces [t=274334]
+ IDEs: improve behavior of panes and undo/redo [t=274972]
+ IDEs: smarter selection of suggested items on initial mousemove [p=2629534]
+ IDEs: suggest list does not respond to mouse movement when inactive [t=275197]
+ IDEs: fix loss of X position when scrolling vertically in some instances [t=274248]
+ JSFX: add mem_multiply_sum(), mem_insert_shuffle(), get_host_placement() [jss=mem_multiply_sum] [jss=get_host_placement]
+ JSFX: improve gfx_getchar() to return discrete unicode values when available [jss=gfx_getchar]
+ JSFX: extend slider_automate() to allow for touch recording [jss=slider_automate]
+ JSFX: if 'tags: instrument' is present in header, treat as an instrument [sdk=js/js.php#tags]
+ JSFX: improve manual editing of envelope points for parameters that have named values
+ JSFX: per-sample and per-automated-block performance optimizations
+ JSFX: support log/exp-scaled sliders for controls, specify :log or :log=offset after step size [sdk=js/js.php#slider_shaping]
+ JSFX: support polynomial-scaled fader scaling, default is square, specify :sqr for x^2 or :sqr=3 after step size
+ JSFX: support up to 256 sliders per FX, longer parameter names, very long lines [t=272052]
+ JSFX: throttle calls to gfx_showmenu() to prevent accidental annoyance [t=272767]
+ JSFX: support EEL2 preprocessing [sdk=js/preproc.php]
+ JSFX: update Super8, channel mixer to use preprocessor
+ Localization: improve support for various loudness-related displays
+ LV2: do not unload plug-in bundles on macOS or Linux [t=274448]
+ LV2: fix potential crash on macOS UI destruction [t=274448]
+ LV2: improve manual editing of envelope points for parameters that are named enums
+ macOS: fix ampersand drawing in tooltips [p=2628462]
+ macOS: improve compatibility of 'Open source file' mouse modifier dragging [p=2636376]
+ Media explorer: add action to calculate peak volume for all media (will skip files that have already been calculated)
+ Media explorer: do not allow shortcuts panel to be resized to exactly zero [t=215631]
+ Media explorer: fix action to open file in explorer with certain paths [t=274502]
+ Media explorer: fix button appearance on Linux when using DPI scaling
+ Media explorer: improve handling of RfxChain and FX preset files [t=265842]
+ Media explorer: support editing metadata via right-click menu for .mid files [t=274771]
+ Media item properties: improve start-in-source display in certain stretch marker scenarios [t=274036]
+ Media items: always account for media item label drawn above item when calculating vertical offset for overlapping items [t=272679]
+ Media items: fix potentially-dropped MIDI events at end of item [p=2625908]
+ Menu/toolbar editor: increase width of listview columns [p=2636334]
+ MIDI: when trimming items due to split, chase CC/pitch/etc
+ MIDI list editor: fix mousewheel action bindings [t=275224]
+ Mixer: add Cut menu items to FX context menu
+ Mouse modifiers: fix potential crash when deleting track via user-assigned action from media item click/razor edit click
+ Mouse modifiers: fix support for binding actions with small ID numbers to click/doubleclick contexts
+ Notation editor: fix UI quirks when the piano roll is set to project synchronized time base [t=260878]
+ Notation editor: improve layout when resizing, make limits affected by size [p=2032295]
+ Paste: improve behavior when pasting .RfxChain/.fxb/.vstpreset files into track or item context
+ Preferences: add setting in Preferences/Seeking to seek playback when clicking on media items
+ Preferences: fix searching when starting from a preferences page that is added by an extension [t=274326]
+ Project load: always show details of unrecognized project tokens
+ Razor edits: add action to enclose media items in separate razor edit areas for each selected media item, rather than a single razor edit enclosing all selected media items
+ Razor edits: add mouse modifiers to move razor edits without contents horizontally/vertically/on one axis only
+ Razor edits: add option to move edit cursor on razor edit change
+ Razor edits: fix adjusting media item length when using timebase beats (position only) [p=2627203]
+ Razor edits: fix envelope cut/paste (6.72 regression)
+ Razor edits: fix some behaviors when pasting razor edit areas to master track [p=2627688]
+ Razor edits: fix action to move razor edit areas up/down/forward/back without contents for master track [p=2630344]
+ Razor edits: fix restoring master track razor edits on project load
+ Razor edits: fix undo for razor edits on master track envelopes [p=2630348]
+ Razor edits: handle master track in action to move nearest razor edit edge to cursor [p=2630311]
+ Razor edits: improve behavior when "overlap and crossfade media when finalizing razor edits" enabled [p=2623951]
+ Razor edits: only copy fade-in/fade-out if the start/end of the media item is included in the razor edit
+ Razor edits: prevent moving razor edit areas to tempo envelope when using mouse modifier to move razor edit area ignoring envelope type [p=2627676]
+ Razor edits: support cut/copy/paste on project play rate envelope [p=2629413]
+ ReaEQ: correct label for band bandwidth parameter
+ ReaScript: add EEL2 mem_multiply_sum(), mem_insert_shuffle() [jss=mem_multiply_sum]
+ ReaScript: extend gfx.getchar() to return discrete unicode values when available
+ ReaScript: support EEL2 preprocessing [sdk=js/preproc.php]
+ Recording: fix $recpass000 wildcard when used in the middle of the filename [t=222312]
+ Recording: fix potential extra count-in measure being added with round-to-measure checked [t=274889]
+ Recording: improve behavior with MIDI replace recording mode
+ Render: display render statistics as list view in render progress window
+ Render: improve tab order around output format configuration
+ Render: support $takemarker(name) and $takemarker(name)[separator] wildcards [t=275011]
+ Render: swap order of close and back buttons after successful render
+ Render: update dialog when changing render region selection [t=274119]
+ Render: support wildcard case conversion for Unicode Latin Supplemental and Latin Extended-A accented characters [t=274162]
+ Routing window: display track parent name in routing dialog title
+ Routing matrix/track wiring: show if signal is present on audio/MIDI inputs
+ Routing matrix: improve record input selection indication on multichannel record inputs
+ Timestretch: add new ReaReaRea mode that uses randomized overlapped windows and project resampling mode [t=266425]
+ Timestretch: improve ordering of modes menu
+ Tooltips: prevent tooltips from occuring when window is inactive [t=233380]
+ Track grouping: items on edit-grouped tracks follow mouse-click take selection changes [t=274295]
+ Track grouping: prevent grouping razor edits on master track [p=2627694]
+ Track grouping manager: fix Unicode characters in group names on Windows
+ Track manager: fix visibility of collapsed child tracks when filtering [t=275048]
+ Track manager: fix gridline display when hiding columns on Windows [t=274194]
+ Undo: consolidate undo points when inserting multiple FX via action [t=274365]
+ Video: add get_host_placement()
+ Video: support EEL2 preprocessing [sdk=js/preproc.php]
+ Virtual MIDI keyboard: fix entering center note via keyboard
+ Virtual MIDI keyboard: improve keyboard navigation
+ Virtual MIDI keyboard: remove space from note names
+ VST: add compatibility setting to pass channel silence flags to VST3 plug-ins [t=274038]
+ VST: detect VST2 shell plug-in synth status using same logic as non-shell plug-ins
+ VST: improve multiprocessing performance with UADx plug-ins
+ VST: re-map automation by parameter ID if parameters change due to restartComponent
+ Windows: improve ASIO channel defaults, remember channel configuration per device
+ Windows: do not allow setting default ASCII keybindings to global, require manual remap first [t=275243]