REAPER 5.60: Train Kept A Rollin

+ Automation items: add option to disable envelope outside of automation items (automation-item-only mode) [t=196166]
+ Automation items: support preview in media explorer
+ Automation items: support various context menu actions from media explorer
+ Automation items: fix potential hang when populating submenus [p=1899152]
+ Automation items: add automation item double-click mouse modifier to load saved automation item

+ Envelopes: add option to always create new automation item when writing automation (always enabled in automation-item-only mode)
+ Envelopes: change bezier curve smoothness calculation so that curves are less sensitive to changes in surrounding points (existing projects are unaffected)
+ Envelopes: add theme color for unselected automation item
+ Envelopes: fix activating receive envelopes from envelope dialog [t=188909]
+ Envelopes: fix end point behavior of action to insert four points at time selection [t=196548]
+ Envelopes: generally restrict mute envelope points to on or off state
+ Envelopes: respect "ignore mousewheel on track panel faders" for envelope control panels
+ Envelopes: show move guides for automation item edits
+ Envelopes: in automation-item-only mode, chase previous automation item value on seek [p=1888928]

+ FX: fix ID collision in quick-add FX/FX chains menu [t=196760]
+ FX: allow VST plug-ins to override escape key, spacebar via effEditKeyDown

+ MIDI editor: add actions to navigate by channel, voice, staff [t=196830]
+ MIDI editor: obey mouse modifier setting to select/deselect other notes when inserting note on single click [p=1893711]

+ Mouse modifiers: fix actions to set default mouse modifiers for newly-added contexts [p=1901080]

+ Peaks: add display settings option to rectify peaks/waveforms
+ Peaks: add display settings option square-root-scale peaks

+ Pitch shifter/timestretch: add new menu system for parameter modes
+ Pitch shifter/timestretch: add Rubber Band Library
+ Pitch shifter/timestretch: support loading extrashifter.dll/.dylib for developers

+ Preferences: move various solo/mute options to Audio, Mute/Solo tab

+ ReaEQ: optimize parameter updates [t=196118]

+ ReaScript: improve behavior of fade shape setting via SetMediaItemInfo_Value() with C_FADEINSHAPE, etc [t=196831]
+ ReaScript: add GetUnderrunTime() API

+ Solo: improve hardware send behavior when soloed track sending to another soloed track [p=1896371]
+ Solo: improve solo-in-place behavior for receives on folder tracks
+ Solo: improve solo-in-place behavior when both sides of a send are soloed [t=190492]
+ Solo: add option for unsoloed master/parent send when a soloed-in-place track sends to another soloed track

+ Spectral editing: clear spectral edit selection on item click
+ Spectral editing: separate controls for fade in/out/low/high rather than just time/frequency
+ Spectral editing: shift+drag of edge adjusts fade of that edge

+ Take FX: improve handling of PDC changes [t=194308]
+ Take FX: improve handling of PDC with master playspeed envelopes

+ Tooltips: show correct tooltip when track muted due to envelope

+ Undo: prevent storing many duplicate empty state blocks in history
+ Undo: support more efficient encoding of track configurations in history (new undo histories will not be loadable by 5.50 or earlier)

+ Windows: improve support for application/user paths with non-latin characters

Thanx Maartian!

I can actually understand these updates.  I wish I was really deep into this DAW. 

From the vids I've watched Reaper is really deep.
 
I find the UI kind of funky though. Not my cuppa but if I had to I'm sure I could get into it.

bapu
From the vids I've watched Reaper is really deep.
 
I find the UI kind of funky though. Not my cuppa but if I had to I'm sure I could get into it.

Groove3 has a great video 1st Song in Reaper.

bapu
From the vids I've watched Reaper is really deep.
 
I find the UI kind of funky though. Not my cuppa but if I had to I'm sure I could get into it.

The default UI is unusable for me.  Fortunately, the theme support is top notch and there are some very generous folks that have made great themes for Reaper.  Add your own custom toolbar and it gets pretty slick.  This is the way mine looks:
 

Also, if you're into Python, Reaper is a BEAST!

BobF

bapu
From the vids I've watched Reaper is really deep.
 
I find the UI kind of funky though. Not my cuppa but if I had to I'm sure I could get into it.

The default UI is unusable for me.  Fortunately, the theme support is top notch and there are some very generous folks that have made great themes for Reaper.  Add your own custom toolbar and it gets pretty slick.  This is the way mine looks:
 

 How so?  I don't find it much different than other DAWs.  Is that what that theme looks like?  It almost looks like a video editor.
 

Control arrangement/overall layout/color and contrast.  The default makes me search for things.  Video editor?  I don't get that.  Here's just the mixer for a better view
 

 
 

Yea I purchased reaper some time ago, but never got into it. It's so different from Sonar, I just haven't spent the time to learn how to use it. I do like the "portable" version as I like things that don't fiddle with the registry, so I update it periodically just so I have the latest, but rarely use it for anything. 
 
At this point the only way I could imagine spending the time to get into it would be if something happened to Sonar. Like they went out of business or sold it and caused problems.
 
With lifetime updates in Sonar, as long as they are making a good product, I'll be using it. I would rather spend the time working on songs and my craft instead of learning a new DAW. 
 
gabo