REAPER 7.53 (32-bit)

What's new in this version:

Actions:
- add action to bring all project FX online one at a time
- fix extra MIDI events possibly being added at end of item when applying track FX as new take with MIDI output
- add action to open 'choose project' prompt (allows opening multiple projects at once)
- add actions to set all project take fx online or offline based on whether the take is active or not
- show splash screen when closing projects via action

Import:
- add action to insert all media items in directory
- add setting and preference to create folder tracks for imported directories
- recursively import files from subdirectories when dragging a directory into REAPER
- warn/verify when importing more than 1000 files at once
- ignore .txt files when drag/dropped into arrange view with other media

MIDI editor:
- add option to draw CCs as gray
- add option to hide CCs in secondary contexts
- add preference for opacity of secondary editable contexts, extend opacity configuration range for inactive items
- show note names from tracks that MIDI is routed to, if any

Project load:
- add checkbox to load project with FX offline, then bring FX online one at a time
- add FX offline/online options to import RPP dialog
- display loading progress in splash screen
- improve loading speed of projects that have many per-take FX

Spectral edits:
- add actions to bypass/solo/delete selected spectral edits, reset/adjust gain of edit
- add new preferences page to configure defaults for new spectral edits
- control+clicking an edit allows multi-selection of edits
- faster drawing updates when modifying edits
- improve selection behavior, deselect spectral edits in other items when selecting, etc

Automation items:
- add project setting to choose whether 'Beats (position only)' timebase changes length of automation items (on by default, matching behavior of 7.49 and earlier)
- fix start offset when changing effective timebase

Fades:
- clear LPF fade, reset fade curvature when performing various editing actions
- improve behavior of 'move crossfade' mouse modifier when editing non-crossfade

Media explorer:
- set default fade-in/fade-out to 20ms
- support either fade-in or fade-out (or both/neither) for preview audio (replaces option to crossfade)

Media import:
- don't prompt to match empty project tempo to media if the project tempo is already set to the media tempo
- simplify tempo-match preferences

Mouse modifiers:
- add ripple options for edge edits (only affects editing right edges)
- modifier to adjust item edge without changing fade only applies to pre-existing fades

Peaks:
- draw first sample of peaks over left border of containing media item
- fix errors where the first sample of media file may get skipped (7.39 regression)

Project bay:
- properly handle dragging items into 'add new track' area of project
- support creating folder tracks from project bay folders

REX:
- fix potential error when importing as beat slices and source tempo is lower than project tempo
- when importing as beat slices from media explorer with time selection set, import slices if they start within the time selection, and do not truncate the end of the slices

Searching/filtering:
- better handle case folding of UTF-8 codepoints up to U+800
- improve synonym case folding support for localized synonyms

Spectrogram:
- add high resolution spectrogram view (when sufficiently zoomed-in, zoom threshold is configurable in preferences)
- add mousewheel/MIDI CC/OSC assignable actions to adjust brightness/contrast/curve/frequency curve
- fix slightly-incorrect display (skipping one very high frequency bin)

Toolbars:
- prevent overly-large images from resizing toolbar editor too large
- allow larger toolbar images (7.50 change partially reverted)

Undo:
- allow longer undo messages
- support longer track names/etc for FX, envelope context messages

Auto-crossfades:
- fix manually edited crossfades being reset when deleting unrelated media items

Color theme:
- add theme elements for LPF fade color and blend mode

Control surfaces:
- add Console1 support

Debug:
- add project load time report, accessible via 'projload_report' in debug console

Default theme:
- update send level meter images slightly

FX:
- add preference to control whether pin mappings are loaded when loading FX presets

JSFX:
- fix showing JSFX pathname when inserting via action/script on Windows

Paths:
- increase maximum length of VST/LV2/CLAP plug-in path lists to 64k

Portable installs:
- fix issue in new 7.50 feature where VSTs would be rescanned even if skip requested by user

Project backups:
- add option to auto-save unsaved projects, will also save at exit and be available (if configured) when re-launching REAPER

Project settings:
- add project setting (advanced tab) to always load project with FX offline, or bring FX online one at a time

Render:
- fix brickwall limiting to master mix when also rendering master mix and normalizing to master mix

Shutdown:
- improve shutdown process (display splash screen while unloading project), better compatibility with some plug-ins/control surfaces

API:
- add StartPreviewFade(), to immediately fade preview audio in or out