REAPER 5.9.7 (64-bit)

What's new in this version:

- ARA: support for ARA2-compatible plugins
- ARA: support for importing notes and tempo from plugins into project, or exporting as MIDI
- Actions: allow removing FX chain actions
- Automation: handle empty automation items more gracefully
- Automation: fix crash when duplicating empty automation items via region copy
- Control surfaces: add action to reset MIDI control surface devices
- Control surfaces: actions for next/previous track update control surface offsets
- Joysticks: fix joystick support
- MIDI editor: allow resizing right edges of notes down to note insert size if lower than grid size
- MIDI editor: fix possible crash when editing notation
- MIDI editor: obey note insertion length when in measure-grid mode
- MIDI editor: event filter fixes and tweaks
- OSC: fix support for s/track/x/name setting
- OSC: fix unreliable setting of marker/region information by timeline-index
- OSC: support modifying/creating markers/regions by ID, using /region_id/@/time and /marker_id/@/time etc
- OSC: support writing marker/region values
- Performance meter: auto-resize text areas to configured view options
- Performance meter: optionally display video load
- Project bay: add position column for source media and media items
- Project bay: allow dragging complete (not trimmed) media into the media items tab
- Projects: add actions to save copy of project (optionally prompting for new filename)
- ReaComp: add pre-fader feedback detector mode
- ReaComp: deprecated non-fully-functional AA support, hidden when not used
- ReaComp: improve ratio/attack/rms slider curves and display precision
- ReaScript: fix MIDIEditor_GetSetting_int
- ReaScript: EEL2 scripts support //@gmem=sharedMemorySegmentName starting line in first 100 lines of code (also shares with JSFX)
- ReaScript: add reaper.gmem_attach()/gmem_read()/gmem_write() to Lua for interacting with JSFX/Video Processors/EEL2 ReaScripts gmem[] segments
- ReaScript: support UTF-8 characters in os.remove()/os.rename()
- ReaScript/JSFX: add gfx.a2/gfx_a2 for creating transparent images
- Stretch markers: add new "transient-optimized" and "no pre-echo reduction" stretch marker modes
- Stretch markers: add project setting for stretch marker mode
- Stretch markers: improve timing of timestretch ramps with elastique and Rubberband Library[t=204269]
- Track FX drag: update mouse cursor when changing modifiers
- Tempo map: fix importing initial time signature from MIDI tempo map
- Theme: fix retina vs HiDPI inconcistency relating to label margins
- VST: do not deactivate VST3 plugins before changing IO buffer information
- VST: flush VST3 buffers on stop without resetting other plugin state
- VST: inform plugins of project loop selection regardless of playback state
- VST: report loop points to plugins even if project repeat is disabled
- VST: restore pre-5.9x reset-on-stop default behavior for ET-200, FA3, Vienna Ensemble
- Video: sort and reorganize preset names into categories
- Video: add new presets including Color Peeker, Decorative Oscilliscope, Decorative Spectrum Analyzer, RGB Histogram, Resize to Project Settings, Screensaver, Frame Rate Decimator, RGB Shadow/Midtone/Highlight, Apply Track FX Only Where Track Has Video Items [p=2073314], Vertical Wipe
- Video: improve various built-in presets
- Video: improve Chroma-key presets, add separate RGB/YUV versions
- Video: add JSFX video sample peeker which can provide audio samples to Decorative Oscilliscope/Decorative Spectrum Analyzer presets
- Video: add experimental performance tweaks and information to video window menu
- Video: add experimental decoder prefetch support (improved multiprocessing, improved reverse video playback performance when enabled)
- Video: add option to show green frames for underruns, rather than previous frame
- Video: add option to disable rendering cache for all media/video FX (can be used for low latency interactions)
- Video: avoid re-rendering video frames when tweaking parameters during playback
- Video: better preview behavior when slip editing items
- Video: improve monitoring FX performance during underruns/seeking, playback recovery after CPU overutilization during normal playback
- Video: improve preview behavior when scrubbing backwards continuously
- Video: always force rendered videos to be even in dimension
- Video: do not process any video when rendering audio-only
- Video: do not run video processors in monitoring FX chain while rendering
- Video: increase maximum parameter count to 24
- Video: parameters can now be specified without indices for convenience
- Video: add processor support for gfx_a2, which can be used to control RGBA alpha-channel writing
- Video: add processor functions: gfx_getpixel(), input_get_name(), on_parameter_change(), time_precise(), ui_get_state(), fft()
- Video: improve gfx_evalrect() (can take flags to process right-to-left, vertical, third source for 3-way blends, initialization code, returns -1 on error, add restrictions to processor code)
- Video: improve input_info() to not clear project_w/project_h if they are passed as parameters and input is not present
- Video: support //@gmem=sharedMemorySegmentName (also shares with JSFX's options:gmem=)
- Video: fix RGBA chromakeyed blit
- Video: improve internal colorspace management logic (reduction of excess colorspace conversions)
- Video: improve knob behavior relating to mousewheel, step sizes, and undo/redo
- Video: fix VLC decoding to RGB
- Video: fix ffmpeg hang when seeking some old miniDV .avi files
- Video: improve VLC/ffmpeg decoding behavior near end of file
- Video: improve DirectShow output performance
- Video: fix refresh issues with linux or Windows/BitBlt() output
- Video: optionally send CC events on video window mouse drag (once option enabled, right click in MIDI learn window to assign)
- Video: output colorspace preference no longer affects processor rendering pipeline, only final display stage
- Virtual MIDI keyboard: do not adjust center position in response to UI sizing
- WALTER: fix HiDPI extended mixer mode setting