#Reaper hot key mix edit window full
#Reaper hot key mix edit window plus

#Reaper hot key mix edit window full

You can now double‑click on the window title bar to expand the mixer to full screen. To give the mixer room to breathe, break it out of the Docker by right‑clicking on the Mixer tab and clearing the 'Dock Mixer in Docker' option. Additionally, sends and effects are usually hidden when the mixer is docked, due to the vertical height limitations. If you're dealing with more than a handful of tracks, the docked mixer becomes crowded and you have to scroll to see everything that's going on. The Docker provides a convenient method of navigating between docked windows, but its size is limited by the height of the main window (containing the tracks). Breaking Out Of The Dockerīy default, the mixer loads in the Docker, at the bottom of the main Reaper window. Digital Audio Workstations offer incredible power and flexibility, but, packing so much information into one system (and often, one screen), they lack the 'all in one glance' comprehension factor of mixing on a hardware console.įortunately, Reaper offers many features that can help you wade through the most complex of mixes, to tame the flood of information so that you can concentrate on the sound. If the amazing amount of content available on the Internet gives you a bad case of information overload, spare a thought for the engineer tasked with turning a huge number of tracks, effects, sends and automation into a finely mixed stereo master. Some synths also have slow attacks times, and you have to compensate for that, which is another reason to be able to mute/solo quickly.Avoid information overload with these advanced techniques for using Reaper's mixer.

(Some synths will have patches that start sharp or flat (on purpose as an effect) and 'set in' to the real pitch, so if you're working quickly and with the full mix, you might put a couple notes sharp or flat because you don't let the pitch 'set in' (Bass is especially hard with headphones, because you can get a false sensed of raise pitch, due to the volume in the headphones. I just need to quickly shut it off to hear the entire mix without the piece of MIDI I'm editing, and to solo it, to make sure the tone/voice I've picked will work, and if the tone is the correct pitch. On the fly, with no pre-thought on what steps I'm going to need to take to mute/solo quickly and effectively. Honestly the only use I've found for the filter box (so far) is to track down any weird program or controller changes in an imported midi file.īut all I need is a Mute and Solo button in the window of what piece of MIDI I'm working on at the moment.

#Reaper hot key mix edit window plus

Why chase for that take in the (in my case often hopelessly overcrowded) filter list?Įxactly, plus the filter box only mutes/solos midi tracks (yes?), the filter box with its mute/solo list can stay for everybody who uses it. That's like having a cover on all your light switches in your house, and having to flip a switch to open the cover on your light switch so you can access the actual light switch and turn the lights on or off. I just think it's inefficient to Click a button to access a panel where there are two buttons I need to click. How would you feel if the only way to access the transport controls in the midi editor window was to click on a Transport control button that opened up a window with the transport controls in it? Filterbox being dockable in the Midi Editor (Yeah!)Īgain, it's all about ease of access and functionality, why should I have to open another window in order to solo/mute the current track I'm working on, when the Mute/Solo button can be right there in the editor window right next to the transport controls? (it's an issue with disappearing midi-menus though) Bottom docker being able to go to the top It's possible to dock the Midi Editor bottom, and Filter right, but as Bottom Docker can't be fullscreen, this is not an optimal solution. The only problem is that the Midi Tack manager (Filter-box), is not dockable in the midi-editor. I've now worked with the Midi Editor a little more,