Its finally here, the latest and greatest version of the thinking persons favourite daw.

Changelog
v5.50a - September 16 2017
+ Automation: fix combining of trim/main volume envelope with different scales
# Automation items: ensure item edge points are square-shaped for mute envelopes
# Envelopes: fix insert 4 env points before an AI [p=1885418]
# Envelopes: fix possible crash when clearing envelope from envcp
# linux: improve Python auto-detection

changelog for 5.50:

+ Actions: automatically make capitalization consistent for non-localized action description strings
+ Audio: allow frequencies up to 100MHz when using dummy audio driver [t=195153]
+ Audio: avoid changing device samplerate to default samplerate when loading projects [t=193651]
+ Audio: add option to flash transport status yellow on possible audio device underrun
+ Audio: improve various playback/recording behaviors when using background project tabs [t=193849]
+ Automation items: add automation item support, to contain, move, and transform portions of envelopes
+ Automation items: items mask the baseline envelope, but overlapping items all affect playback
+ Automation items: items may be pooled or unpooled, looped, stretched, skewed, and phase-shifted
+ Automation items: items may be named, saved, and loaded
+ Automation items: support separate baseline, amplitude, and looping for individual instances of pooled automation items
+ Automation items: alt+drag in envelope lane (by default) to draw automation items
+ Automation items: add automation item and automation item edge mouse modifier contexts
+ Automation items: add actions to insert, duplicate, split glue, delete, etc
+ Automation: prevent latency adjustment when playback is stopped [t=193321]
+ Configuration: support import/export of more configuration files
+ Envelopes: add envelope lane mouse modifier context, deprecate preference to respect envelope segment modifiers in envelope lane
+ Envelopes: remove envelope lane click mouse modifier context, add envelope lane double-click context
+ Envelopes: add mouse modifier to freehand draw envelope points respecting snap
+ Envelopes: add actions to reverse envelope points, reduce number of points by half, insert envelope point ignoring snap
+ Envelopes: fix a few non-working send envelope menu items [t=190902]
+ Envelopes: add option to prevent mouse edits of single envelope points from moving past other envelope points
+ Envelopes: preserve envelope curvature during "move envelope segment preserving edge points" edit
+ Envelopes: preserve envelope curvature when moving points with media items, or within time selection
+ Envelopes: preserve envelope curvature at time selection edges when initiating envelope segment edit within time selection
+ Envelopes: improve behavior when freezing/unfreezing with send and pre-fx envelopes [t=195398]
+ Envelopes: fix initial value when auto-adding FX parameter envelope [t=192204]
+ FX: improve support for wet/bypass/VST3 parameter IDs on MIDI learn, TCP knobs
+ FX: do not auto-increase track channel count when loading FX chains that have multichannel FX but were saved from stereo tracks
+ FX: fix potential bugs relating to bypass/wet envelopes when loading automation and FX parameter counts change
+ FX: fix issues related to user-preset navigation [t=195699]
+ FX: add ReaCast, a shoutcast/icecast source plug-in
+ FX: improve ReaEQ/ReaXcomp analyzer accuracy [t=194328]
+ FX: fix project save of JSFX preset names that contain spaces
+ FX: add mix-in and auto-update options to allow some spectral smearing capabilities for JSFX spectral_hold
+ FX: improve display updates for some JSFX scripts
+ Grid: sanitize grid values on project load/entry [t=190108]
+ LAME: bundle libmp3lame 3.99.5
+ MIDI: restore keyboard focus to piano roll after changing CC lane via dropdown
+ MIDI: fix action to explode MIDI by pitch (and some related behaviors) [t=190905]
+ MIDI: fix project MIDI export when project start time is not zero [t=194713]
+ MIDI: fix project MIDI export SMPTE time when using ND timecode [t=194710]
+ MIDI editor: handle click on track title exactly like a click on the activate icon in the MIDI track list
+ Metronome: support triplets in metronome pattern [t=192992]
+ NINJAM: improve cross-platform compatibility of clipsort.log import
+ Notation editor: fix PDF export when "bracket tracks by folder" option enabled [p=1844292]
+ Notation editor: preserve notation for non-displayed notes when edits are made with channel filter active [t=185286]
+ Pan: allow very small track pans in fine adjustment mode
+ Pan: display sub-1% pans with increased precision
+ Pan: decrease media item properties pan snap-to-center threshold [t=190557]
+ ReaScript: improve undo/update behavior for InsertTrackAtIndex(), DeleteTrack() [t=135573]
+ ReaScript: avoid setting console focus on reaper.ShowConsoleMsg("")
+ ReaScript: improve display updates for some scripts
+ Sends: set focus for temporary single-send adjustment windows
+ Spectrogram: add spectral editing support, action to insert new edit regions [rv=vSBO_VC9q3E]
+ Theme: fix incorrect separators with grouped tracks [p=1874859]
+ Undo: improve undo efficiency
+ Undo: automatically make capitalization consistent for non-localized undo point description strings
+ Undo: fix behavior when reordering FX with automation [t=191588]
+ Undo: fix behavior with FX TCP parameters and learn [p=1845984]
+ Undo: fix parameter modulation settings
+ Undo: fix behavior when modifying stretch markers via swing grid
+ VST: support VST3 extended functionality with Softube Console 1
+ VST: improve macOS bundleExit VST3 compatibility
+ VST: improve resize behavior of various plug-ins [t=193099]
+ VST: send 10 channel speaker arrangements as user-defined [t=194176]
+ VST: use VST3 parameter IDs for tracking envelopes/parameter modulation across sessions
+ Video: fix rounding behavior with alpha-blended gfx_xformblit/gfx_deltablit
+ Web Interface: add fancier.html
+ Windows: increase FLS slots available on x64 for improved plug-in compatibility
+ Windows: support receiving ASIO overload notifications
+ macOS: add CoreAudio option to ignore project samplerate
+ macOS: support receiving CoreAudio overload notifications
+ macOS: improve scroll behavior of non-REAPER windows on 10.11+ [t=195544]
+ macOS: improve mixer drag and drop behavior [t=190761]
+ macOS: preserve parameter modulation window position when auto-resizing

Enjoy!

Also a quote from Justin in the pre release forum
"Oh also, it's not mentioned in the above changelog, but the linux builds of 5.50 have elastique3 included! "

Happy days for the linux user, you know who you are, lol.

 

Nice... that's quite a changelog.

 

wow... I bought this over the summer... messed about for a bit. but found I was back on Ableton... but hey, for how cheap it is, still happy I got it. Will have to check update... thanks!

 

I literary can't wait

 

Now imagine these future big updates like 5.60, 5.70, 5.80... and not so small which are between them. But what 6.0 will bring to us? And what the posterior 6.x will bring? Probably Reaper is a very PRO and most stable DAW ever.
IMHO 6.0 will be released in 2019, or in the end of 2018

 

no waiting for me. i'm on prerelease branch :D

the real biggie in this update is Automation Items (and probably the native linux version).

 

...............

This is simply the beta site freely accessible from reaper links and forums to anyone wishing to try it. Thought I was being helpful but hey nevermind then... geeze

 

Last edited: Sep 15, 2017

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Last edited: Sep 16, 2017

Been waiting for this. It took longer than usual. And it's amazing. Love Reaper.

 

5.50c
+ Bouncing: fixed elapsed time indicator at non-44khz
+ MIDI export: re-fix another SMPTE case [p=1885834]
+ Spectral editing: improve knob control positioning consistency [p=1885746]
+ Automation: fix transitions writing to regions with 0ms transition time [p=1885561]

 

Yeah fully agree Functionality, ease of use and value for money is top drawer.
DEV's attitude & work-rate is immense also & so refreshing to witness in this day & age
Also love the policy with future updates and in my own opinion is worth way more than the asking price in my own opinion when compared to comparable competitor products.
Can't praise highly enough

 

Hope they integrate true VCA or at least that their VCA workaround works now like a real VCA because earlier VCA wasn't acting as it should be, no LED meter etc... if I recall correctly but I know that their VCA thing wasn't fully implemented. Unless I'm behind and they fixed it already

 

You do realize you immortalized the link you were trying to get rid of by quoting the previous post, right? Besides, you triggered that response post by bragging about something not really brag worthy, so...

But yeah, some people just can't follow directions. Way to ruin it, other Reaper users.

 

"immortalized"...how poetic.

it's clean now.

the bragging interpretation is yours. you can keep it.

 

I wonder if current SWS extensions will be compatible with Linux/ARM build

 

These guys are just amazing, best developer.
New in 5.50:

 

Reaper is amazing. For the price, for the logical ways it does things & for the depth there's nothing to touch it. There are a few quirks that make it difficult for ppl (idiots) like me to just jump straight in & use w/o RTFM. If you were to make an uber-DAW (Franken-DAW?) out of all the best bits of all the DAWs, most of it would be from Cubendo & Reaper.

 

This version took a while to release I think Justin was trying to fix as many bugs as he could.

 

Last edited: Sep 16, 2017

Agreed, this version took many,many beta versions to come to the final.
Devs surely had hard work, making Automation Items really happen without minimal bugs in Reaper.
I installed 5.50 official release today on my macbook retina, osx 10.12.6.
As expected, it just flies for me (as it always has done since version 3) and the Automation Item functionality is utterly amazing imho.

Cockos Rocks !

 

What I find interesting is that the file offered on reaper.fm has the same filename as the one on lando
reaper550c_x64-install.exe

Which is odd, as the files on lando comes with as is notice:

Also no linux build showed up yet on reaper.fm