This is the big-picture changelog for REAPER 3.0, listing the most significicant new features and fixes over REAPER 2.5x. The small-picture changelog for the latest version of REAPER can always be found here: http://www.reaper.fm/download.php REAPER v3.00 SUMMARY MAJOR NEW FEATURES + Automation lanes + Nested track folders + Multiple tabbed projects + Multichannel (greater than stereo) media support, including MOGG + FX parameter controls on track and mixer control panels + Customize toolbar icons and actions + Programmable MIDI joystick/game controller support MIDI IMPROVEMENTS + Inline MIDI editing + Edit multiple MIDI items in one editor + Sync MIDI editor to arrange view, including looped items + Export project MIDI, with tempo map support + MIDI event filter + Track MIDI controls (manage bank/program changes, sysex, automate CC) + MIDI hardware timing improvements + Full sysex support OTHER SIGNIFICANT NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS + Create time- or beat-based templates including media + Improved REX support + Smoother play/stop/seek transitions + Soft controller takeover, including FX parameters + Create default FX controller assignments that act on the focused plug-in + New UI theme, many new graphics features and options + More user control of placement/appearance of graphical interface elements + Create knobs, envelopes, controller assignments from the last touched FX parameter + MIDI control of presets for any plugin + Attach text and image resources to media items, place icons on tracks + Global automation override/bypass + Hide/show tracks in either arrange or mixer view + UAD compatibility improvements + All-native graphics rendering engine (better appearance and performance) + Memory use improvements REAPER v3.00 DETAILS AUDIO PERFORMANCE + Improved MP3 seek accuracy + 27.97DF timing improvements + Read, write, or explode media with any number of audio channels + Optionally preserve project PDC when monitoring + Seamless media item glue during playback + Optional tiny fade to hardware on play/stop/seek (avoid clicks) + Option to gate (not record near-silence) while saving live audio output + More WAV read/write options + Customizable pre-roll, metronome improvements ARRANGE VIEW / EDITING + Optionally draw labels and buttons above media items (track info lane) + JS support for up to 64 parameters, dynamic UI + Filter track visibility by name + Optionally display faint peaks in automation lanes + Control+drag for fine adjustment of volume handles and envelope points + When labels drawn above items, drag the label area to select item+time + Dynamic split detection improvements + Drag images onto arrange view or track control panels + Filter and highlight FX parameters in the envelope window + Automap 3.0 support MIDI EDITING + Vastly improved memory performance with many MIDI items in a project + Editor timeline can be beats (local), beats (project), time, or synced-to-arrange + Switch active MIDI item in multi-item editors by clicking a note, selecting the source item in the MIDI event filter, or clicking the item in the arrange view + Quantize/humanize/edit note properties modelessly + Increased range for note velocity handle adjustment + Improved timing in ReWire slave mode + Enhanced CC meta-actions (fine-tune custom actions with a conroller) + Themeable colormaps for note velocity, channel, source item + Lock notes in time or pitch + Adjust parent item and loop length from MIDI editor PLUGINS + No glitch when looping plugins that generate sound or tails + Faster redraws for some VSTs + No glitch when automating ReaEQ band gain through +0 dB + Dragging FX instrument to empty track space inserts new track for the instrument + Improved FXP compatibility + Support for VSTs that send MIDI out of context + Improved DX automation support + FX parameter aliasing RANDOM STUFF + Many theme options for drawing blend modes, marquee selection + Unicode (via UTF-8) filename support