REAPER 7.56 (32-bit)

What's new in this version:

Track panels:
- add new infoblock control to display contextual track information (optional, enable via Theme Adjuster script)
- click infoblock area to enable/disable displaying various contextual information
- infoblock implemented via tcp_infoblock images, fallback text is used if tcp_infoblock is not found

Render:
- add render peaks display option to show file length in samples
- add render setting to enable/disable parallel postprocessing
- support rendering stereo and/or multichannel to per-channel mono files, via postprocessing dialog
- disable 2nd pass render option when normalizing video render
- fix auto-incrementing filename when rendering to both primary and secondary formats
- fix possible 1-sample file length discrepancy when rendering media items on multiple tracks
- fix rendered file length discrepancies that can occur in certain circumstances
- fix rendered file length when processing at project sample rate, resampling to final sample rate, and rendering multiple project regions (7.37 regression)
- if not postprocessing, finalize rendered files for each timeline range before rendering the next timeline range
- ignore saved project setting to bring FX online after load when rendering from the command line
- improve render speed when rendering many files and using FX that introduce latency
- improve render speed when rendering many very short files
- update render statistics more efficiently during render
- internal changes to filename handling and metadata
- limit display of rendered file list dropdown to about 100 files
- properly flush synth plug-ins when normalizing video render
- resolve wildcards like $item, $itemnotes even when not rendering selected items, by finding the media item within the render that best matches the rendered time range

Auto-increment:
- support separate preferences for 'save new version of project' suffix and 'auto-increment filename' suffix
- set default filename suffix to '-001' (revert to pre-7.45 behavior), keep 'save new version of project' suffix as '_001'
- add preference to ensure file number comes after all existing similarly named files in the directory
- add preference to treat _ (underscore) and - (hyphen) as interchangeable when auto-incrementing filenames
- allow space characters in auto-increment suffix (for example, ' 001')

Batch converter:
- fix converting only selected files when unselected, unconverted files exist
- ignore $chid wildcard when not imploding/exploding
- support sorting file list

Click source:
- support following project tempo / time signature while customizing click pattern
- support setting to half speed

Joysticks:
- actions/buttons to reinitialize MIDI devices also re-open joystick devices
- opening configuration from device that failed to open will try to re-open the device if found

macOS:
- allow plug-ins to request access to system cameras
- improve display/handling of truncated UTF-8 strings

Media import:
- set take extension attribute ORIGINAL_FILENAME when media is copied to project path on import
- if media contains unambiguous tempo information in cue/marker metadata, use it when tempo-matching

ReaScript:
- clarify documentation for gfx_measurechar()
- fix GetMediaSourceFileName() for section/reverse sources

Ruler:
- add support for minutes:seconds (minimal) display format
- fix performance issues/hangs at nonsensically-high measure offsets
- make label interval and tick mark spacing consistent when ruler display format is set to either time or frames

Wildcards:
- support $chid (channel ID), for use when rendering stereo/multichannel to mono files, ignored otherwise
- support $chid{N}(...) to name channels when exploding N-channel file, ignore for other channel counts
- support $projectnotes and $projectnotes(key) to display specific lines from project notes, see wildcard help for more information

Windows:
- fix tooltip UTF-8 display errors when long strings are truncated
- improve display/handling of truncated UTF-8 strings for display and accessibility

Actions menu:
- if multiple key/MIDI bindings are mapped to recent actions, show all bindings in menu item

Appearance:
- do not draw new (7.55+) media item left edge overlay if media item is only a few pixels wide

Audio Units:
- prevent dropping of MIDI messages in certain instances

Command line:
- fix command line render occasionally canceling itself

Debug console:
- use fixed width font for debug console

Filtering:
- fix case matching for various non-ASCII characters that do not fold to ASCII

Glue:
- fix glue when preference set to create new MIDI as .mid files (7.46 regression)

JSFX:
- avoid file_open(xml) trying to open files as MusicXML

Media explorer:
- don't cancel incomplete peaks preview build when seeking with crossfade enabled

Media item properties:
- support displaying and editing take section source start and length in time, beats, samples, or frames

Metronome:
- support setting to half speed

MIDI:
- avoid potential dropped notes at end of MIDI items

MIDI editor:
- add option in View menu to disable displaying note names on piano roll keys

Parameter modulation:
- increase precision of configuration display

Ripple:
- import media preference 'insert empty space when ripple is enabled' also affects pasting media (when disabled, existing media that starts to the left of the import position is unaffected)

Section source:
- avoid drift when looping sections that are not a whole number of samples (5.20 regression)

Shutdown:
- optimize unloading FX at exit

Tempo markers:
- fix editing tempo when tempo change position is in beats and previous tempo marker is set to gradually transition tempo

WMF:
- improve support for high unicode code points in filenames

Worker threads:
- optimize thread cleanup process

Zoom:
- when maximum project length is set, decrease horizontal zoom-out limit