How To Customize The Reaper DAW Layout 

Cheers, glad you're enjoying them :0)

It certainly is a very customisable interface :)

Yeah, love the fact that you can adjust a different look for both the mixer panel and the track control pane, it's making every step of the production easier.

Diolch Andy :0)

Some (not only British) accents are hard to understand for non-native speakers, but this guy is very easy to follow, and also he has a very pleasant voice and talking style.

My pleasure 👍

Same thing happens to me. Any fix?

O made the mistake of docking it to the left, now it's stuck lol

You can do everything you described by dragging and docking each element and then dragging its tab to the corner you wish. Except for FX docking. I'm not sure if that's possible. There doesn't appear to be a dedicated section of the interface for FX. I'm not sure how that should be defined. The question would be how does REAPER know which FX to put into the "docked FX" window?

Check out around the 16 min mark ;)

I'm having that problem too. Did you ever figure it out?

Watch the entire video, around the 16 minute mark he will show you how.

View > Transport or press Ctrl + Alt + T

lol same i was to lit to figure it out til today. Thanks ReaperTV

Same here but also my master track and all the others got deleted from the bottom and the side!!!? Help

thats the same as in my daw: go to the view bar there you find what to be shown.

@@Caleb101 same is for the mastertrack you cab activate or deactivate it in the " view " bar.... there you can activate many things including the master track, mixer, transportconsole etc....

Watch the entire video, around the 16 minute mark he will show you how.

This is the Holy Grail of ReaperTV. A million thanks mate :D

Yes! You get the satisfaction of knowing you're supporting the developers while also owning a legitimate copy of REAPER. ;)

Sure, it's Default Commala 5 :0)

When you buy it you will get an email. Save that email cause you will need it again when you get another computer. That email will have the activation key

Great , cheer Brian.

Under the Mango Tree it partly depends on the theme you're using and if it supports full media colouring. There's an option in the Preferences to colour your media..

Thanks for the reply! Yeah, I figured it out and found out what checkbox to check. If anyone else has the same frustration just go to Options>Preferences>Appearance:Track Control Panels>[enable] Tint track panel backgrounds

Sergio Rivera I'm pretty sure that not every theme supports it so I'd suggest testing it with an alternative theme to confirm.

i test with commala 4 and 5 and blackmore and just de waveforme take de color, not the complete track u.u

Same here. It's grayed out for me using Commala 5.

Same here

This is exactly what I'm experiencing too... I haven't figured out any solution :(

Same in version 6 . I just uninstalled it, after almost punching my.monitot

Close enough Jim 😉

I think a lot of DAW's suffer from usability issues on crazy resolutions and are more geared to working on large screen displays with 1080 style resolutions. I totally agree about 3rd party plugins. Why they can't provide a scalable or at the very least, multi resolution option is beyond me.

Looks like we need to wait for a vector based GUI like FL Studio has. From what I read the 3rd party plugins are beyond hope as they are displayed directly not through the host.

***** As long as they don't look naff! It wouldn't be too hard for 3rd party plugins to simply offer a X2 or X3 resize option. That way they can still be bitmap based and provide higher resolution capable layouts.

+Nihil Quest +ReaperTV Scalable GUI is not that easy to make. In fact it's really hard. If you go vector based, like FLStudio, you can pretty much say good bye to themes, because most theme makers work with bitmaps, not vector based drawings. I don't think anyone is ready to give up themes. So that leaves bitmapped themes. Now you have two problems: 1) If you want your theme to look good on 4K, you pretty much have to work on a 4K screen. You make your theme at the highest resolution, then you scale down for the other resolutions. But not all theme makers own a 4K screen. I even think it's an overwhelming minority as high quality 4K screens are expensive. So most themes will be at lower resolution and scaled up. 2) For Cockos and the plugin developers, it's a headache inducing problem, as now every item that is drawn (buttons, bars, windows, graphs, etc) have now to be placed relative to one another instead of an absolute position relative to the top left corner of the window. That means that you have to define by hand dozens or hundreds of formulaes to calculate the positions of these objects, or you have to write a whole framework that does it automatically for you, and then define the relative positions of each object in terms of left, right, top, bottom, etc. There is fortunately a much simpler way to do it, which is to provide absolute positions of each element, like before, but at each possible scale. So if there are 5 possible scales, provide the absolute position of each object for the 5 scales. Still that doesn't solve the problem of big letters in small windows, because the OS itself doesn't manage 4K that well.

Funnily enough I'm a web and graphic designer and have been for around 15 years professionally so the issue of browser rendering and scaling isn't something new to me. My proposition (as can be seen in my previous comment) is to provide various pre-scaled versions that will be switchable by the user based upon their preference and screen size / resolution. This does away with scaling and position issues as the sizes are set. Agreed, it would add additional time and cost to development, but with screens & resolution getting larger and the prices coming down, it is something that really does need some attention drawn to it. I used to use a 27" monitor with high resolution for photo editing and while the extra screen space was great for Reaper itself, using plugins like Superior Drummer 2 or the more complex plugins on the small layout that was designed for large screen TV's with lower resolution or smaller screens, it just becomes really problematic.

Can't please everyone I guess.