Release notes
REALIVE 7.1 — Release Notes
This update delivers a major round of improvements to REALIVE, including a redesigned playlist engine, new render features, improved line check functionality, automatic device detection, and a range of workflow and performance enhancements.
🎚️ Line Check
Completely redesigned and more flexible Line Check system.
Supports more naming variations and uses the current Cues Voice for announcements.
📋 Playlist Window
Core list code rewritten — now more efficient, lighter, and flexible.
Interaction improvements:
Double-click a song to play it.
Ctrl + Double-click to rename a song.
Option-click to close it.
Shift + Click and drag to select multiple songs.
Project Selection:
Projects can now be selected directly from the playlist for reordering, rendering, or editing.
Selected projects are reflected in the Time Window (top right of the transport bar).
Right-Click Enhancements:
Right-click a playlist to copy the playlist or project structure to the clipboard.
Right-click an Audio Routing entry to copy outputs to the clipboard.
Project Search:
A new Find button at the top of the playlist helps locate songs in long lists.
Import Projects:
You can now import all projects from another list into the current list (audio routing from the second list is ignored).
Performance:
GUI updates run at 60Hz for smoother scrolling and responsiveness.
🎛️ Audio & Control Surfaces
Audio
macOS only:
Automatically detects newly connected devices.
If currently using the Mac’s default device, REALIVE prompts to switch when a new device is found.
On wake from sleep, if the external device is missing, REALIVE automatically switches to the default speakers.
Control Surfaces
Cross-platform support for automatic detection and configuration.
Control Surface GUI: Easier setup and management from the main toolbar.
Reset Control Surface: Instantly reconfigure known surfaces.
Double-hit protection: Prevents accidental double presses of Play from triggering a seek.
🎧 Audio Routing
New Routing Assignment Window in the Audio Routing tab allows easy output assignments with presets.
Switch Mixer View now toggles between Mixer, Patch List, and Routing Matrix:
Quick press = cycle through modes.
Long press = return to Mixer view.
Copy Outputs to Clipboard: Available from the window menu.
SMPTE Safety:
Prevents assigning SMPTE to an already-used bus.
If assigned incorrectly, pressing Play will mute it and optionally warn you.
AudioRouting_State code optimized and lighter.
🧠 Rendering
Brand new REALIVE Render Window (Menu → File → Render → REALIVE Render):
Render and optionally combine multiple projects.
Optionally include MIDI roadmaps in exports.
Includes both QsVox and QsBand in Click & Cues renders.
🎵 Playback & Timeline
Playback always resets Playrate to 1.0 before starting.
Improved automatic sorting algorithm for track names when importing new files.
Copy–Paste Timeline:
Copy/paste entire marker lists and tempo/time-signature maps between projects — no MIDI file needed.
Works across different REAPER portable installs.
Better in-house MIDI Export:
Properly exports regions as markers.
Ignores action markers.
Make Sweep Track Action:
Menu → Timeline → Insert → Make Sweep Track to create a white noise sweep effect.
Add Low Pass to Media Item:
Right-click an item → Add Low Pass Filter (as a Take FX).
Time Signature: Improved support for 6/8 and odd meters with accurate counting.
Time Clock: Now supports 24-hour and AM/PM formats (right-click the clock to toggle).
🎤 Production MIDI Tracks
New right-click options to set up Production MIDI Tracks.
Automatically creates a master MIDI bus in the Audio Routing tab.
Autotune MIDI Tracks:
Integrates with Waves Tune via an external REAPER portable instance for latency-free tuning controlled by REALIVE.
Build Autotune Items: Automatically generates MIDI items from the start.
🧰 Project Title & Editing Tools
Project Title Window: Now shows and allows editing of Key and Drone Pad states.
Pitch View: Adjusting pitch now automatically compensates vocal formants to reduce the “chipmunk” effect.
Solo Original / Solo Original Play:
Added toolbar button and keyboard shortcut (B) to solo the original track only.
Global setting — when disabled, original tracks won’t play in any song.
E Key Shortcut: Quickly insert shaker or tambourine loops (more loops coming soon).
🕒 Transport & Mode Management
Next Section Window: Small overlay (bottom right) shows the upcoming section during playback.
Recording in Live Mode: Automatically switches to Edit Mode.
Switch to Live Mode: Clears razor edits to prevent issues.
LinkTrackToSelection: Now supports razor edits in Edit View.
💾 File Management
Save As All Tabs:
Menu → File → Save As All Tabs to Folder
Saves all open projects as a list and optionally opens that new list.
Improved Config Import:
Retains as many of your existing settings as possible.
Reaper Tab Support:
Now supports up to 1000 open tabs (subject to hardware limits).
A modern Mac can handle around 500 comfortably.
🌐 Localization
Easier installation of language packs.
To contribute a translation, email: info@realive.fm
Supports French characters in both the Playlist and Project Title windows.
⚡ Performance & Stability
Global GUI refresh rate increased to 60Hz.
macOS Live Mode now uses Caffeinate to prevent the screen saver.
Fixed an issue that could cause audio to play briefly when stopped.
General startup and cleanup optimizations.
✅ Summary
REALIVE 7.1 is faster, more reliable, and more flexible than ever — with smarter device handling, a modernized playlist, new rendering capabilities, and an even smoother live performance experience.
v7.092
-All time signatures Counts are now supported
Project Tab List, Option to tint the items according to the previous Separator in the list
Added a preference to automatically add Formant correction to the Vox Tracks when Changing Pitch to project
Changing the Pitch to a project will better support all item regardless of their current Pitch setting.
6/8, 9/8, 12/8 a re now natively supported with the counts adjusting to the time signature.
Project Title Window: Pitch and Drone supports Mouse wheel
If trying to playback while the audio device is not present, ask to select another device. (OSX only)
Build Click Track: Better support of time signatures...
When entering a new cue, play it in the QsBd bus even if in Live mode.
Changing Pitch does not affect the Prod MIDI stuff
Changing Pitch from key to key does not go past -6 or +6, if an item would yield to over +6 semitone or under -6 semitone, Roll over to the other limit.
Changing to double time feel from a triplet feel time signature leaves the division unmuted
Added Qs Piano Bell Note Functionalities: When hitting [Q] to show the "New cue at cursor" menu, you now have the choice to add guide piano notes. Either a single note and various chord. It will be played in the QsVx bus. You can move it to the QsBd if you choose so.
Next section Window always show the next non visible region
Starting playback from the beginning did not zoom properly: fixed
In the Project tab list, entering a separator tab will color-code the next section
v7.089
Save As All Project to folder can now be aborted while it is copying the Audio file
Auto-Detect current available Audio device improve: Is not in function while REAPER is not foreground
v7.087
Save As All Project to folder can now be aborted while it is copying the Audio file
Adding a loop action Marker will always add it to the beginning of the region
Prevent Offset seek to the same region.
Drone pad can now be set and modified directly from the Project Title window. Just over the top Left corner of the Project Tiltle window.
Fixed a few Drone Action marker chasing so that the drone is always updated properly when initiating playback
The project key can be edited directly from the project title window: Option click it to delete it, Hover and scrol wheel to change the key.
Scaling the whole GUI using SHFT-CMD-Scroll wheel
All "Next song" action markers can be activated to a configured bar in the destination project.
Hit "K" to enter a Action marker, "Q" to enter a new guide cue.
Fix REALIVE Render oddities...
OPT-CMD Scroll wheel to move item from track to track in the arrange view. Hover the tcp to move the Tracks instead
SMPTE Timecode is now global through all currently opened projects. It can be chosen directly from the Timecode window at the bottom left in the live view.
Auto-Detect current available Audio device. While no project is playing, new audio devices are automatically detected. You can optionnally switch to them is you want. OSX only (OS limitation)
While playing back, moving with force seek shortcuts, does not move the edit cursor.
In the audio routing view, several menus are added in the transport.
Transport times top right of Transport window, will now reflect the currently selected Projects from the playlist.
Project tab list: reworked the Right Click menu.
In the audio-routing view, the "Routing" menu include a "Enable hard limiters on busses" to bypass the track's Hard Limiters to save CPU
When selecting a new audio interface, selecting a multi-out device unsoloes the master fader, selecting a stereo out device, soloes it to avoid double sends between individual tracks and master out.
When building a new conductor track, if the tempo in 60bpm or less, ask for triplet feel click.
Metronome menu, added a mute wholebar click menu item
Contextual Loop mode: in this mode, triggering the loop button or [L] button will loop these (in order of appearance) if present:
Current area selection
Current time selection
Loop points
Current region
Current measure
Audio device menu in the main toolbar. The Audio device setting can be selected directly from there. OSX only (OS limitation)
Audio device menu in the main toolbar. The buffering setting can be selected directly from there.
Immediate seeking actions to force seeking immediate in the action list.
In the metronome menu, "Add running click" action to add a single beat before the song to make a running click. Look for it in the metronome menu on the transport bar. Disabling looping starts the song.
Control surface focusing the app is now a preference. To allow triggering REALIVE while showing another app. ("Control" button in the main toolbar)
If changing the click track to triplet feel, you can now make a time selection or place your edit cursor at a specific place to do only a section of the song.
Several minor bug fixes...
It is now possible to select several projects in the list to organize them and render them in one operation. Shift or cmd click the project prior to do your function.
Tempo list manager: View menu or in the Metronome/Tempo button on the transport bar.
Transport bar now reflects the play/loop states
In tempo view, CMD-Scroll wheel disables the items' stretching to tempo
In tempo view, OPT-Scroll wheel while playing forces the tempo change immediately
Add Prod MIDI track for CCs and Program Changes: Right-Click on a track or on the timeline and go to the "Insert" section
LOOP/Add action/Add Cue in the main toolbar now triggers menus
ZOOM UI function: There's also a Right click menu on the transport bar
SHIFT-CMD-ScrollWheel: is now a contextual ZOOM between TCP, MediaItems and Transport Bar. Just Hover on desired section.
As a safety, the SMPTE track cannot be routed to any audio hardware used outputs. If you try to do so, hitting play will disable the outputs in the routing window.
In the main toolbar, Mute/UnMute buttons for the original tracks and vocal tracks
In the main toobar, the Auto-Stop button trigger the Project Ending menu
Under certain circumstances, the wrong playlist item was colored while in the audio routing tab. FIXED
REALIVE Render: while multi rendering, the Routing's muting is respected.
Less CPU use on large setlists.
When inserting or updating a SMPTE track, if the cursor is not at the beginnig of the song, offer to use that position as a starting point.
Realive Render: tracks that were in the QsBand folder were not render. FIX
On windows, the UI redraw is slower when changing window sets. Implemented less redrawing for nothing.
Click and Pitch menu are now on the Transport Bar
Control Trigger Switching Live/Tempo/Pitch view action: Press repeatedly to switch the views. If you wait for more than 2 seconds between triggers, it will go back to the main live view.
Play function follows REAPER's snap mode. If snap is enabled, playback will start from the beginning of the bar
When sorting after importing new Tracks, the updated folders will be sorted alphabetically
Realive Render: tracks that were in the QsBand folder were not render. FIX
OPT clicking the arrange window will paste the currently selected Media Item
Generating Click track did not stop at the Fermata marker. FIX
Other small bug fixes
While changing tempo while a song is playing, the change is more sync.
When engaging the solo click from stop avoid hearing a bit of audio coming thru
Prevent image stuttering when playing back while you have a lot of large projects are opened.
bug fix: Click mute unmute on seek to other project
CountIn force to 1bar: Fix Corner case from 2bars to 1bars
Smoother GUI during playback with big projects
Conductor Tap Mode: Hitting [SHIFT-C] will enable the [,] and [.] keys to control payback speed. This can allow for rubato playing. Only works well with non rhythmic material. (Strings/Pads)
Seek to new tempo improve
LEXA Controller setup: Using the "Switch View" function, Switch from Audio Routing goes to Live View
v7.052
Generate Structure Track: Fix Bug with very small regions preventing building the regions properly
Conductor Track Menu, Fix sub menu not being created properly
Set item's playrate actions in action list and Media Item's Sub Menu
Set item's loop state in action list and Media Item's Sub Menu
Fix corner cases in Bounce Script
Make Pref to force Refresh Cues on insert Markers
Click Menu: Reorganize menu
Bounce Script: Better Renaming
Bounce Script: Added Click & Cues function
Bounce Script: SMPTE is included in stems, Click and busses mode
Bounce Script: SMPTE is ignored in the mixdown
v7.048
Fix Bug: Change count-in length wouldn’t work if there was a marker at time 0
Realive_SoloTrack_AddNewAction.lua: This action will build new scripts to allows soloing certain specific track with a shortcut. Works on Routing and/or on Songs. Right click on a track and Select “Build solo action for track
v7.043
Line Check: Now
Measure Navigation now works
MIDI Cues Line Check
Fix bug with for certain cues that were not built
Media Explorer: Adding to sampler trigger sorting
Media Explorer: Insert to sampler action
Import Track Sort, Deleting Remaining Child Track
Zoom Out Temporarily, Show Message
Fix bug: While enabling Solo click make minimal play if playing from 0
Project Tab List: CMD Click to play works on non-active tabs.
v7.037
Fix bug for certain cues that were not added when selected
Required SWS version is now 2.14.0.1
V7.035
Mute click and smpte when going to next song with "immediate play" action markers
In the Click Menu: Prevent Click change note if Global Click is not enabled.
While Sorting tracks. Delete the dummy track on folders that have been filled
Web Remote: show Edit cursor marker position, Inform when Seeking
Realive_MuteTrack_AddNewAction.lua: This action will build new scripts to allows muting certain specific track with a shortcut. Works on Routing and/or on Songs. Right click on a track and Select “Build mute action for track
Building a click track with a 6/8 song will convert it to 2/4
Tempo window support with 6/8 time signature: Right click on Tempo window to show 6/8 tempo
Ableton import: convert 6/8 projects, Ask to ignore non Audio/Midi tracks, Mute Guide/Click tracks
Better “Windows” support: Cleaned a few bugs
Added a Spanish 2 Voice pack with an another female voice. More cues are now available
Added a preference to auto send a Program Change on song change
V7.033
Entering an action marker over another replaces it. Else it is added next to it.
Add Next Song Menu more options
Realive Logo on Window Message
ProjectTabList: Deprecate Refresh playlist display function
CountItem Cycle: Don't show edit view if in Live Mode
Realive Prod MIDI Tracks functionality: Right click on the timeline and you can enter midi notes for Resolume triggering, for Easy Worship (In 2 modes if two Easy worship are used)
V7.025
Better support for non English characters in the Title Window
Minor bug fixes…
v7.022
Temporary samples have been added for separate instruments single cues: (Band, Drums, Bass, etc…) and (In, Solo, Drop, ), The samples will eventually be redone.
Bug Fix, in certain circumstances, the Click & Cues could be routed to the main out when changing sound interface
The “Find tempo” is experimental and not reliable all the time, Added a warning message when using it.
When adding a cue, it is automatically played.
v7.019
Click menu: Independently selecting click accent notes. You can now decide which accent you want for each click track. (Wholebar, Beat, Div)
Routing Menu: Uppdate click and cues routing action. If needed, you can manually set it.
Samples is played when inserting it while no songs are playing
In the project tab list, change song to separator type
v7.0
The audio routing window has been redesigned with its own Toolbar.
The audio device availability is automatically refreshed and announced if un unavailable
Click and cues can now be triggered globally from the audio routing.
New “Add cues” menu hitting the [Q] key.
New “Add Action Marker” menu hitting the [K] key.
Section repetition has been enhanced. You now know if a section is repeated several times and when the last time is coming.
A new solo click “freewheel” mode has been added. Allowing the percs to keep playing while the click is soloed
Ableton live sessions can now be directly imported in REALIVE (Still in experimental state)
The transport bar buttons now supports REALIVE functionalities
The transport bar now has a section to show times vs full setlist length. Useful to know how long you have until the setlist ends.
A “click menu” button has been added to the transport bar. Several click related functions are found there.
Seeking to a section start can now optionally trigger a cue and a count
A “next section window” has been added to show the upcoming section when not visible.
Live looping mode can be activated to trigger several loops separated in project tabs and keep them in tempo. They can be triggered with keyboard shortcuts or anything else.
A preference to keep the video opened while changing views.
On REALIVE startup a “recent RPLs” menu is shown.
Improve play button’s responsiveness.
REALIVE Render GUI window
Some corner cases fixes in the tempo changing logic to keep everything in sync.
The division click can be reassigned to the same sound as the beat click
The mouse wheel button will move the playhead to the mouse cursor, snapping to the bar while on live mode.
A few minor enhancements to Amalgama’s great renamer, (Named Realive_Reanamer.lua in the action list)
Several new Realive preferences added in the “Options” menu
Project playlist several little enhancements. (Copy playlist to clipboard)
Consolidate everything function to save everything to a folder.
In the Tempo View, a “Keep time position” button has been added to set the project timebase to ”time”
Low latency playback trigger: Avoid long wait before playback is initiated.