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I started with REAPER 5 and I still prefer that theme

Reaper. Master. Race. Much love! <3

It is so nice to have the choice

You should be running it under Linux and most likely KDE if customisation is your thing.

They should really be making it as intuitive as possible for the default. ALSO WHERE CAN I GET PLUGIN INPUT-OUTPUT 😭I'VE BEEN KEENING FOR IT FOR AGES.

Hi @Reapertps, is there an Adobe Audition theme?

7:44 respect for that poster hahahaa

I’m still using a slightly modified Reaper 4 theme.

100% on point of user confusion when Reaper 6 came out with the non-descriptive A,B,C layouts and then add on top of that the non-logical default items that were turned on, it became complete frustration. The theme adjuster just seemed so disconnected, that I never considered I needed to use it to turn items on where it seemed they should have been turned on by default. Many strange theme decisions occurred from 5 and onward.

I agree with pretty much everything you said. One of Reaper's biggest problems is that so many of its defaults are bad, not just in the user interface but all over. There are so many videos about how to fix this stuff but that just underlines the point. The defaults should be user friendly and obvious. Even Kenny had a video about the first settings to change and he works for them! Reaper is a great daw but they'd get loads more new users if the defaults were better (and make life easier for their existing ones). (And while we're on flexibility why is Ctrl+mousewheel over the TCP still hard coded to mess up your track layout? Why is that STILL not in the action list? 😔)

🫡I’ve been using reaper for 4years it a great option

I totally Agree and you made some really great suggestions.

Infinite thanks!!!!!!

Great vid! I still can't believe that there's no way to get all the panels to accept dark mode on Windows (e.g. fx side panel stays white etc) . Works fine on Mac.

That's great, but you can't hide the fact that the plugin container still looks atrocious XD

But theme choice doesn’t affect functionality, right? So if I have Reaper 7, but want to use the version 4 theme, I still have the up-to-date features of v. 7, correct?

As a new Reaper user I found this video very interesting and helpful. Thanks for making it!

As much as I love Reaper, I think the interface is becoming a problem. I want to do music and not spend timeless hours tweaking the interface. I just wish the default one to look great, but it's not the case. I'm still in Reaper 5 default layout hoping some day this aspect to improve, but it seems to me is getting worse each new major version.

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Excellent video as always. I always hope that Cockos (and WT) will one day update the UX for Reaper - particularly the FX Browser, which I now see has been essentially untouched since version 0! I do love Reaper and I'm not likely to switch DAWs anytime soon, but I do sometimes feel like it doesn't feel like a modern DAW, especially not without the hard work of people like you (I'm using the Reapertips theme and love it).

I actually like not having the numbers next to the meters. It makes me worry less about levels, and focus on the music more 🤗

Yeah that's one major put off for me switching to reaper is the default layout, which doesn't look very appealing. If I'm using a DAW I kinda just want to get into my work, rather than becoming a UI UX designer. Which is a shame because it sounds extremely capable.

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Cool video! Do you know how to make reaper to have that blue bar that appears at 11:36 below the folder track when you drag a track to a folder? Mine shows a light gray bar instead of blue, and that gray color make it so hard to tell where is landing the track that I’m moving. Thanks!

Is the DAW any good tho? I've been a Logic user since 1996 and I can't see Reaper being as complete as Logic.

oldest versions of Reaper looks like a Acid from Sonic Foundry at 2000

I still work with Reaper 5 😂 Why I dont switch ? Because I dont fix when it is not broken 🎉 Then the UI is totally not important, just buy a multi vst pack and you have the fancy vst .. ssd5 and neutron isotope are great because you can plug in and record and put neutron on that track and go on with the next track . Yes i was the guy that after every record make a mix Haha 😅.. If you have that just use neutron for fast mix and then remove it and make your own mix 🎉 Easy

I am so glad i discovered Reaper, I came away from using apple and couldn't afford anything like Ableton or Pro tools, I had heard of Reaper so got the free trial to start I have never looked back, once I had my custom layout which I only did a couple of years ago it is such a great thing for me. It is the best £50 I have ever spent. The updates have been amazing.

Btw Pianoroll/browser needs to be costumizable

I still keep around Reaper 4 theme. For me it is earier to read than any newer versions and I tried custom themes too.

Excellent video, as always.

I'm slowly transitioning from fl to reaper cause most of my plugins just don't work on fl, memory leak, over utilisation of cpu are my problems

I bought Reaper about 3 years ago but regret it. It is dull and unaesthetic on loading, like landing in an OS from 1992. As for the slider based plethora of native plugins - awful. Did they sleep through the last few decades? It is an obvious lack of vision in the design aspect. It doesn't excite to create, it stamps on excitement. The fixation on 'complimentary colours' jars - rotating the sick green and red hues, that jarring colour relationship remains. It should be obvious and easy to tweak to arrive at something more uplifting and harmonious, such as red and peach. They could learn so much from the FL Studio themes, for examples, which truly adjust the whole mood aesthetically. Reaper over-celebrates its very minimal tweaks and feels like bland bits of code vomited, with expectation that users are to delve into endless menus or hidden shortcuts for things which should be up-front and obvious good basic design. I want to like it, but it is Stone Age confused design, and relying on making bad design partially and confusingly customisable is a poor approach. I totally agree about need to provide better named themes, but they should be well away from the 1990s awkward looks, and fully formed with optional tweaks rather than relying on a multitude of hacks and tweaks to be created by people hooked on delving into code in time they could be doing what the application is supposed to be for - creating music.

The GUI is a very important part of a DAW for me. Unfortunately, I never got used to any Reaper GUI, wether default or one of the dozens of themes I tried. In some places so much space is wasted, while in others, everythnig is crammed. The re-arranging isn't nearly as flexible as the re-design options. And much more. I started using Reaper with version 4. During version 6 I switched to Studio One. It is not the better DAW. But every part of the GUI is clean, neat and logically arranged. You can't do aynthing else than change the overall color scheme. But that's a price I'm wiling to pay for a GUI, that I have to look at every day and be comfortable with. I even experienced the loss of meter dB values - they miss in Studio One as well. Still, it is amazing how much more inspired I am now. Even with a worse DAW.

What a great video my friend, loved the wishlist in the end and would 100% agree!

Superb video

Reaper is great because of his quality and amount of options. Design is not his strong point.

I've been a Live and Studio One user for years, i had tryed Reaper 7 quickly and i was very confused with the UI, it really feel like they went too minimalistic here to a point that you can't find the features, specially the insert/send

Very cool! After a brief stint with ProTools, I switched to REAPER in 2008 and never looked back. Thanks for the great video!

All truths brother ❤️

I wish it had a Harrison mixbus interface. It would actually work lol

I want to go back to the default reaper 4 theme! Lol. That's where I started with reaper, before I left for other daws for some years...and I just realized how much freaking better the layout was! All your controlls were automatically there and where I want them! Wow. Is there a LOW EFFORT, EASYway to go back to that, without downgrading the version? Lll

Stats for nerds... content loudness -15db? Still, an enjoyable video once I cranked the volume.

Do you offer one on one sessions to help others learn Reaper?

I never really noticed or payed attention to any of these things. I just get in reaper and start making music. It's a tool i use to do what I love. Maybe I just got so used to it from using it everyday but I was oblivious to all the things you mentioned. I never really thought about reaper in that way. I put more thought into my music and reaper was just what it is...if that makes sense at all. After watching this video I will be thinking of these things now. Thanks for sharing and i love what you do on your channel.

Keep up the good work!!

Agree about reaper plugin skins. I also wish they had reworked some of the plugins like ReaTune, Synth, etc to make them usable in 2024

For me the Reaper 7 theme was the first time that really felt that did something wrong in a Reaper update, i just went back to the 6.0 theme. Amazing feature requests! Hope Justin and the team is taking notes

my Reaper preferences backup file is over 1gb lolol. you don't wanna even know what i've done with Reaper.. i'm gonna make an Anime style skin eventually too. i'm just busy with projects

the only thing that reaper sucks is notation. You cannot write descent sheet music out of your projects no matter what. Everything else is amazing.