Cockos updates REAPER to v3.63

29th June 2010 - KVR Audio News

Cockos has updated REAPER to v3.63.

Changes in v3.63:

VST: bridged plug-in automation improvements, especially with plug-ins that dominate main thread.
VST: fixed deadlock on certain bridged plug-ins on Windows.

Changes in v3.62:

API: fixed GetIconThemeStruct() offsets that had changed in 3.6.
JS: optimized tan(), fixed tan() on OSX/i386.

Changes in v3.61:

Action: duplicate selected items, duplicate selected area of selected items.
API: export ApplyNudge function.
Envelope lanes: display envelope value in envelope lane control panel.
Envelope lanes: more consistent behavior of slider in trim/read mode.
Envelope lanes: respect user preference to not arm envelopes automatically when adding.
Envelopes: enable visual feedback from hidden envelopes by default.
Envelopes: user preference to enable writing automation to hidden envelopes.
Envelopes: more consistent behavior of action to add 4 envelope points at time selection.
Envelopes: preference for double-click to edit the envelope point (vs adding or resetting a point).
Menus: fullscreen mode and always-on-top moved from Options to View menu.
MIDI editor: action to set or insert CC event at mouse (double-click).
Nudge/Set: window opens on startup if it was open when REAPER was last closed.
Nudge: account for take play rate when snapping contents to grid.
OSX: AU PDC fix.
OSX: graphics optimizations and drawing glitch fixes.
Scrollbars: drawing improvements when UI scaling or Windows scrollbar scaling is used.
Timestretch: low quality windowed mode quality fixes.
VST: fixed automation recording with certain plug-ins.

Changes in v3.60:

Transport: show editable playback tempo and time signature.
Transport: mousewheel adjust play rate, tempo, selection start/end/length.
Transport: alt+mousewheel to adjust time selection by beats.
Transport: mousewheel over time selection length to move the entire selection.
Transport: theme images for BPM tap-tempo button (transport_BPM, transport_BPM_bg).
Transport: theme images for playspeed and selection edit fields (transport_group_bg, transport_edit_bg).
Transport: theme images for status box (transport_status, transport_status_err).
Nudge/Set: move items by precise time/beat/sample/frame/selection units.
Nudge/Set: move cursor or copy items by precise units.
Nudge/Set: actions to nudge left/right by last nudge dialog settings.
Nudge/Set: actions to save/recall up to 8 configurations (assign to shortcuts or toolbars).
OSX: much faster graphics updating (thank you, Apple, for your fantastic documentation).
OSX: better edit cursor displays (matches Windows).
OSX: fixed mouse option for mousewheel to target window with focus.
OSX: menu shortcut display support for control key modifier, other special keys.
OSX: faster configuration file access.
OSX: fixed action to reset all MIDI devices crashing on some MIDI devices.
OSX: default text drawing is now faster.
Accessibility: expose basic track, envelope, transport control to screen readers via MSAA.
Action: go to marker 11-30.
Action: reset soft takeover for all MIDI controller assignments.
Action: unselect all tracks, items, and envelope points.
Action: adjust all tempo markers at once by various units.
API: added GetMasterTrack.
Batch converter: better support for unicode filenames.
Custom menus: much faster import of menus and menu sets.
Envelope control panels: respect global UI scaling preference.
Export: automatically prevent trim/convert on REX and video files.
FX browser: renaming item preserves selection, and resorts.
Keyboard entry: preference to disable applying typed-in edit changes after 1 second (in some places).
Keyboard entry: cancel changes on escape, commit changes on tab or enter key (in some places).
Media explorer: action to show source properties for current media preview (right-click preview display).
Media explorer: unload stopped preview media if user preference is to offline media when switching away.
MIDI editor: fixed grid snapping when project contains odd-length time signature changes.
MIDI editor: action to toggle locking MIDI item to fixed tempo, or follow project tempo changes.
MIDI editor: fixed grid snapping, note insert length when MIDI is locked to a fixed tempo.
MIDI editor: optimized edit cursor display.
MIDI editor: update toolbar step sequencer buttons on enable/disable.
MIDI file writing: more compatible ASCII conversion for some UTF characters.
MIDI file writing: new option to write text events as UTF-8 (preferences/media/MIDI).
MIDI items: fixed source properties reported media item length.
Mixer: show MIDI hardware outputs in send/hardware output list (themable: mcp_sendlist_MIDIhw).
ReaEQ, ReaDelay, ReaPitch, ReaXcomp: correct automation behavior when adding/removing bands.
ReaScript: x64 Python support.
Relative snap: fixed occasional reset of item snap offset.
Selection sets: actions to save/load up to 10 sets of item selections.
Solo defeat: receives are always audible even if source tracks have sibling solo.
Startup: faster.
Tempo: more efficient rebuilding of complex project tempo maps when adjusting tempo quickly.
Tempo: better multithreaded time map access (faster tempo information delivery to plugins).
Tempo: tap tempo creates only one undo point.
Time selection: preferences to clear time selection and/or loop points by clicking ruler or arrange view.
Tooltips: fixed occasional stuck tooltip on certain mouse movements.
Tooltips: many tooltips now also appear in main info box.
Tooltips: simplified tooltips that appear when moving media items.
Trim behind items: support toggling on/off within custom actions.
Video: added "Video window follows edits" setting in Prefs>Media>Video.
Video: muted items, muted tracks are not displayed.
Video-FFmpeg: added YV12 and YUY2 colorspace decoding support (makes video decoding faster).
Video-FFmpeg: bundled OSX versions are now 10.4+ compatible.
Video-FFmpeg: improved video frame display when seeking during playback.
Winamp visualization plug-ins: default option to disable WA plug-ins completely.
Winamp visualization plug-ins: various bug fixes.
Windows: fixed file open issues on pre-XP operating systems.