Cockos releases REAPER v0.996

Cockos has updated REAPER to v0.996.

Changes since v0.992:

• Track VU meters are more in sync with played content.
• Added track view scrolling with middle mouse button.
• Optimizations to internals of track and record buffering, should have less heap activity.
• Track control panels refresh more quickly when scrolling/zooming.
• Better track name field appearance (border with hilite/shadow colors).
• Fader tracks are color themed with hilite/shadow colors.
• Fader slider is colortheme tintable (try out the sink-ableskin theme).
• Better vst generic ui scrolling support.
• Reafir: added context menu with manual setting window.
• Reafir: double click resets the selected point to 0db.
• Fixed buzzing on muted items.
• VU meters colors/interlacedness is now part of each color theme.
• Master VU meter has new default RMS+peak mode, configurable settings via right click.
• FX windows remember which FX was active.
• Right click on master mono button lets you choose mono mode (L+R, L, R, L-R).
• MCU: fake touch support for pan knobs (they latch for 3s after moving when in touch mode).
• MIDI editor: ', " support.
• MIDI editor: right click on piano roll selects all events in that note.
• MIDI editor: selected items always appear over unselected items in velocity lane.
• MIDI editor: grid/snap division labeled with beats to avoid confusion.
• Sends, track hwouts, and master pan all default to 0.0dB pan law, instead of project pan law (though you can override them individually). THIS MAY IMPACT EXISTING PROJECTS..
• More vst scrollbar fixes.
• Auto open FX dialog when adding FX to from shift+F etc.
• Shift+F now defaults to last selected track for adds/etc.
• Option to disable DirectX plug-in support.
• Move items with ripple all now updates top timeline.
• Better black key hit testing in MIDI editor.
• New VU meter style is optional.
• Optional DX plug-in scan at startup instead of first add window open.
• MP3 decoder: fix 0 byte mp3 crash.
• Floating transport updates on color theme change.
• Updates to plug-in API: plug-ins can now easily read/modify config on the fly.
• MIDI editor autoscroll is now tied to the main autoscroll option.
• "close window" menu items for docked undo/routing windows.
• Close all tabs menu item in empty space of tabs.
• Perfmeter now reopens docked after close while docked.
• FX windows will try to stay on screen on sizing/opening.
• Made FX add dialog a modeless tool window, that is openable by itself, too, with Shift+F.
• Right clicking FX buttons opens add dialog.
• When opening FX chain that is empty, add dialog opened by default.
• Slight pan snap to center on track pan controls.
• More size optimizations.
• Removed labels on tiny track meters.
• Interlaced VU meters.