Cockos updates REAPER to v5.50

Cockos has updated REAPER to v5.50.

Automation items:

• add automation item support, to contain, move, and transform portions of envelopes.
• items mask the baseline envelope, but overlapping items all affect playback.
• items may be pooled or unpooled, looped, stretched, skewed, and phase-shifted.
• items may be named, saved, and loaded.
• support separate baseline, amplitude, and looping for individual instances of pooled automation items.
• alt+drag in envelope lane (by default) to draw automation items.
• add automation item and automation item edge mouse modifier contexts.
• add actions to insert, duplicate, split glue, delete, etc.

Spectrogram:

• add spectral editing support, action to insert new edit regions.

VST:

• support VST3 extended functionality with Softube Console 1.
• improve macOS bundleExit VST3 compatibility.
• improve resize behavior of various plug-ins.
• send 10 channel speaker arrangements as user-defined.
• use VST3 parameter IDs for tracking envelopes/parameter modulation across sessions.

Web Interface:

• add fancier.html.

Envelopes:

• add envelope lane mouse modifier context, deprecate preference to respect envelope segment modifiers in envelope lane.
• remove envelope lane click mouse modifier context, add envelope lane double-click context.
• add mouse modifier to freehand draw envelope points respecting snap.
• add actions to reverse envelope points, reduce number of points by half, insert envelope point ignoring snap.
• fix a few non-working send envelope menu items.
• add option to prevent mouse edits of single envelope points from moving past other envelope points.
• preserve envelope curvature during "move envelope segment preserving edge points" edit.
• preserve envelope curvature when moving points with media items, or within time selection.
• preserve envelope curvature at time selection edges when initiating envelope segment edit within time selection.
• improve behavior when freezing/unfreezing with send and pre-fx envelopes.
• fix initial value when auto-adding FX parameter envelope.

FX:

• improve support for wet/bypass/VST3 parameter IDs on MIDI learn, TCP knobs.
• do not auto-increase track channel count when loading FX chains that have multichannel FX but were saved from stereo tracks.
• fix potential bugs relating to bypass/wet envelopes when loading automation and FX parameter counts change.
• fix issues related to user-preset navigation.
• add ReaCast, a shoutcast/icecast source plug-in.
• improve ReaEQ/ReaXcomp analyzer accuracy.
• fix project save of JSFX preset names that contain spaces.
• add mix-in and auto-update options to allow some spectral smearing capabilities for JSFX spectral_hold.
• improve display updates for some JSFX scripts.

Undo:

• improve undo efficiency.
• automatically make capitalization consistent for non-localized undo point description strings.
• fix behavior when reordering FX with automation.
• fix behavior with FX TCP parameters and learn.
• fix parameter modulation settings.
• fix behavior when modifying stretch markers via swing grid.

Audio:

• allow frequencies up to 100MHz when using dummy audio driver.
• avoid changing device samplerate to default samplerate when loading projects.
• add option to flash transport status yellow on possible audio device underrun.
• improve various playback/recording behaviors when using background project tabs.

macOS:

• add CoreAudio option to ignore project samplerate.
• support receiving CoreAudio overload notifications.
• improve scroll behavior of non-REAPER windows on 10.11+.
• improve mixer drag and drop behavior.
• preserve parameter modulation window position when auto-resizing.

MIDI:

• restore keyboard focus to piano roll after changing CC lane via dropdown.
• fix action to explode MIDI by pitch (and some related behaviors).
• fix project MIDI export when project start time is not zero.
• fix project MIDI export SMPTE time when using ND timecode.

Notation editor:

• fix PDF export when "bracket tracks by folder" option enabled.
• preserve notation for non-displayed notes when edits are made with channel filter active.

Pan:

• allow very small track pans in fine adjustment mode.
• display sub-1% pans with increased precision.
• decrease media item properties pan snap-to-center threshold.

ReaScript:

• improve undo/update behavior for InsertTrackAtIndex (), DeleteTrack ().
• avoid setting console focus on reaper.ShowConsoleMsg ("").
• improve display updates for some scripts.

Windows:

• increase FLS slots available on x64 for improved plug-in compatibility.
• support receiving ASIO overload notifications.

Actions:

• automatically make capitalization consistent for non-localized action description strings.

Automation:

• prevent latency adjustment when playback is stopped.

Configuration:

• support import/export of more configuration files.

Grid:

• sanitize grid values on project load/entry.

LAME:

• bundle libmp3lame 3.99.5.

Metronome:

• support triplets in metronome pattern.

MIDI editor:

• handle click on track title exactly like a click on the activate icon in the MIDI track list.

NINJAM:

• improve cross-platform compatibility of clipsort.log import.

Sends:

• set focus for temporary single-send adjustment windows.

Theme:

• fix incorrect separators with grouped tracks.

Video:

• fix rounding behavior with alpha-blended gfx_xformblit/gfx_deltablit.