The INSANE Evolution of REAPER's Interface

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🕹 Chapters:

00:00 What's happening? ✨
01:35 REAPER 0
03:32 REAPER 1
05:48 REAPER 2
07:38 REAPER 3
09:16 REAPER 4
12:30 REAPER 5
14:10 REAPER 6
18:50 REAPER 7
21:47 My thoughts! 💭

#reaperdaw #reapertips

[Reapertips]

Thank you for watching!! ❤let me know your thoughts :D

[jacksorjacksor]

The lineage from Winamp to Reaper is truly glorious

[sebamns]

I think Reaper's team should contract you, so we could enjoy a better interfaz.

[ertugrullgul]

Those feature requests are on point, I really wish they made those avaliable. Also a Reapertips 7 theme would be awesome :)

[ColeMizeStudios]

Reaper, please hire Alejandro! This video was such an awesome idea! It was like watching a time lapse of a child growing into an adult lol great suggestions at the end as well for improvements. Thanks for adding so much value to Reaper! Much respect! ✌️😎 - Cole Mize

[rainonwires]

They should 100% bring back pre defined layouts. If there isn’t already a way to do it.

[synapticschism]

Of course it's a good thing. I've returned to Reaper after a couple of years with Studio One and YOUR theme was one of the reasons I decided to stay with Reaper. Having this level of customization, may not be for everyone, but for those who like it, it's absolutely amazing.

I remember doing videos 3 or 4 years ago and having people asking me in the comments "what DAW is that?" and it was just Reaper with some dark theme I found online. It's awesome!

[bobless]

You are absolutely right about everything regarding the design of Reaper 6 and 7 and the appearance of the built-in plugins! Reaper 5 had an incomparable advantage in choosing fixed layouts for TCP and MCP. It is a pity that this technology has been removed. I'm already tired of writing everywhere, my indignation about this... Thank you so much for the analysis!

[dna]

I'll never understand the mind behind Reaper defaults

[KriosDaJester]

I love this type of video (designer/person reviews some sort of interface/app and gives suggestions) in general, and you did this VERY well. I love this style of longer in-depth videos, keep up the great work.

[MichaelBriggs]

Reaper 4 had the best default theme. I still use a modified version of the Janne2016 theme everyday.

[glennlittle]

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? 😔)

[charliebryce]

You have just articulated my present frustration with reaper 7. Surely it would be better to release reaper 7 WHEN a fully functional theme adjuster is ready and not wait for an update. I want to spend my time creating music and not spend endless amounts of time on the computer finding out how seemingly an ever increasingly customisable but complex reaper works. Mixing is an ever increasingly complex endeavour itself, without making the daw your using a barrier, due to it's complexity.

[gillstudio]

That Reaper 4.0 reveal hit me with a massive wave of nostalgia! As someone who hasnt been on the default theme in a long time, it was really cool to have this in depth look at all the changes throughout the years. Appreciate all the hard work that must've gone into this! 🙏

[JosephSaintClair]

I’m new to Reaper (old in life)… I bought a licence and think it’s awesome that it’s so flexible because it means you will find a way to do what you want that makes sense to you and not be roadblocked by “where is…” scenarios that make it horrible using software ! That’s my 2c worth !!

[rednroll]

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.

[NeZversSounds]

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

[RobertoOrtenzi]

Early Reaper 4 user, I switched from Cubase based on the responsive design e clean graphics. 11 years later I'm using Reaper 7 with 6's theme because I find the 7 graphics really confusing.
The development team should really pay attention to this video content and your final considerations, which are all on point and given for free!

[wolfblaide]

Having started using Reaper the last 3 months as a composer, I can tell you this flexibility comes at the cost of good workflow. It takes a huge amount of time to get Reaper behaving similar to other DAWs, and even then you need to use many add ins. Plus, you still can't get it to do some things other DAWs just automatically do, in terms of workflow. So yeah, I really wish they focused on enhancements rather than making it so flexible.

[omicron-prsnl]

I totally agreee, and honestly, the last few default themes in reaper kinda make me sick. Currently, I'm using my own extensively modified version of the default 6 theme, but hopefully I'll be able to move to the new "Anti-Theme" once the Reaper 7 theme adjuster is out. That one actually looks quite good, and seems like it would be an objective improvement in terms of UX design.