Jon Tidey from the The REAPER Blog has just shared this excellent, in-depth overview of what’s new in REAPER 7. There are a ton of great new features – learn more in his detailed overview below:
Topics covered in the video (with playing times):
0:00:00 – Start here
0:00:34 – Default 7 Theme
0:03:20 – Track Spacers
0:05:51 – Track folder hide children
0:07:28 – Track folder drag creation changes
0:09:12 – Fixed Lanes & new Comping system
0:10:14 – swipe comping
0:14:06 – preferences and options for fixed-lane comping
0:15:55 – Record into specific lanes
0:17:02 – Fixed lane comping with groups
0:18:53 – 128 Audio channels And Loopback support
0:23:11 – actions to set default mouse modifiers removed
0:24:09 – writing a script to change mouse modifiers
0:25:59 – built-in way to make scripts for changing mouse modifiers
0:28:04 – Actions window – alternate main keyboard sections
0:31:12 – New actions for editing
0:34:59 – New backups preferences
0:38:21 – FX – Parallel processing, FX Containers
0:42:59 – FX Sidechaing changes
0:47:51 – New preferences
0:50:39 – Gain Reduction Meters
0:52:17 – Arrange view mouse modifier override
0:55:25 – Record loop count, mark for deletion
0:56:54 – Toolbar animation, max toolbars doubled
0:58:19 – MIDI Pitch wheel snap, CC Lane Zoom
1:00:49 – outro
(via reaper.blog)