[RWP] A future of Reaper, version 4!

[Hrvoje Katić]

Hello all,

I don't post too much here, but I am a proud Reaper and ReaAccess user 
since the first version of ReaAccess came out.
So, after a year and a half of using Reaper 3 series, I decided to get 
my hands on an upcoming Reaper 4, which is now in beta9 stage, and it 
past over 60 alpha stages.
Well, so far I don't have too much to say. Nothing bad, and nothing 
good. According to change log, they improved Reaper's accessibility for 
Mac in V4. I hope they also fixed focus issues for Media Explorer, 
though some code updating is also needed for ReaAccess, I guess. 
Regarding the compatibility in Reaper4 with ReaAccess, also nothing bad, 
since things seam working well. They also didn't make any big changes to 
Reaper API except added some new functions, so compatibility with 
ReaAccess shouldn't be broken. The issue what I found so far is the 
ReaAccess configuration item appearing under the Items menu, instead of 
the Options menu. BTW, Items is a new menu bar item in Reaper4, where 
they are now putting options to manipulate items.
Regarding other changes, they have put something that will make it easy 
to manage and replace files used by projects, media explorer time 
selection and also some features to make FX manipulation easier, though 
I didn't test this yet.
Other changes will be more interesting for sighted folks, so I think 
it's not much important to mention them. What's the most important is 
that they are keeping the accessibility, and the program also seams 
working a bit faster.
For people who want to test Reaper 4, but also want to keep stable 
Reaper 3, they have an installer option to install it in portable mode, 
in which case the icons and registry keys are not created, the portable 
copy may be kept in a different folder, and the settings of Reaper 3 
will be used. However, you will have to manually copy ReaAccess files to 
test it with Reaper 4 separately.
You can download latest beta version and see the full change log on the 
following website: http://www.landoleet.org/
So far, I am quite pleased with Reaper 4 beta, and I will keep using it.





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