My Customized REAPER 6 Theme

[@getstew]

Your opening comments are so refreshingly honest and forthcoming in this fake, self-involved social media world. Thanks!

[@FlynTie]

You're brave Jon, making videos during an earthquake! Jokes aside, thank you for everything! :)

[@Speleon100]

I would be really happy to see a second video for when your theme will be completed :)

[@pvalenti]

This was an absolute GAME CHANGER for me! Ironically I used to make video games for a living and if you played ATV Off-Road Fury you might have ridden around on one of my creations. The point in saying that is I have MAD Photoshop skills that I haven't really used in years. So knowing how to unpack the default 6 theme and then how to adjust the look of parts of the theme... Let's just say that my journey has just started. I don't forsee releasing my own theme. However I have already made the Item Media Volume knob, fader knobs and the TCP volume faders Red. I look forward to implementing my own designs. I can forsee creating my own custom faders for the mix view soon...who knows where this could go? Thanks Jon!!!

[@Charlie_Echo]

Thanks Jon! I get that you don't want to share the whole theme till you've finished working on it, but I'd definitely be interested in your new image assets so that I can give them a try - they certainly look like an improvement on the defaults. Please let us know if you share them anywhere!

[@TheREAPERBlog]

I put all my notes for this video into the blog post reaperblog.net/2020/01/custom-reaper-6-theme

[@cyberman195]

Another great blog Jon. I find the meter scale numbers in Default 6.0 very difficult to see... especially when the meters are showing playback. I've noticed that some other themes have the scale numbers "white" or "light blue" all of the time. Can the "tweak" window be used to make this change in Default 6.0 or does that require creating a custom copy of 6.0 and editing them theme itself. I've looked at that process a little and find it quite daunting but I'm willing to give that a try if necessary. Please advise when you have a chance... and I welcome advice from anyone else who wants to weigh in . Many thanks!!

[@shane_taylor]

This was really helpful! Thanks Jon!

[@blendermind]

I did in the past all of these crazy things you describe in the video and took me 3 days or more experiment and understand the concepts, but now I am very happy with my skin, there are good skins but always has something I don't like, like very saturated colors etc. This level of customization is not posibly with the mayority of programs, but reaper is special. I try to do the same with skin version 6 but have some limitations, I try to put black border in notes in clips but I can't with skin 6.

[@DonaldWaughmusic]

I ended up going back the version 5 default theme. I tried to like version 6 theme but it was slowing me down and the client was on my back wanting there song finished. I will dig into the theme tweaks on a slow day. :)

[@dougd1573]

I hate how to solo and mute button stack and unstack depending on zoom level and that they're detached from the other track controls. It makes no sense.

[@IggyPelman]

Question: How do I increase the meter label font size for C at 200%?

[@cartmanefc]

Thanks for this! It helped me fully collapse the children tracks in folders by changing 'supercollapsed' from 4 to 0 under the TCP heights bit of the config file (22.21)

[@arthurw8054]

Since I'm still happy running v6 with my custom v5 theme, no rush, but after a couple of false starts, this should really help, thanks. I do wish to eventually have a v6-based theme that works for me.

[@dagamusik]

Hi! You know how to get the "channel strip meter" layout in Reaper 6? I'm still using "Default 5 theme" because of that

[@neondaemontube]

Hi, since I love retrowave/synthwave 80s and all this stuff I love your Reaper theme, where can I download it?

[@leirumanuel]

Hi. Anyone knows how to change the color of a track when selected? I used to have a Theme in the Version 5 that highlighted the track when selected and turn on a white border.

[@fjkldhakljf]

how did you change the track tabel text color to white ?

[@1001.1-y]

could you help me please? How to customize background tcp label color when you're renaming a track? in previous versions of Reaper when you double click on a label at tcp to rename a track, the background has the same color as it is in normal state. But i just installed Reaper 6.58 and now it's completely bright white when you rename a track. In normal state it is as it's set in a theme. How i can adjust background label color for case when i rename a track at tcp? P.S. ok, i found the source of this issue. In Reaper 5 in Theme Developer/Tweaker window this setting is called 'Window Edit background' And it worked fine. In Reaper 6 this settings changed to 'Themed Window Edit background' And it doesnt response on any changes i make. Is it a bug or maybe i forgot to set some checkbox in General preferences?

[@lucodin8353]

hello, can you tell me how to save a theme that has been modified?. I can no longer find the place or do it, thank you.

[@TheREAPERBlog]

Find the Theme tweak window from the action list. Save button is at the top

[@lucodin8353]

@@TheREAPERBlog thank you

[@mike-aaa]

How change text color of transport (selection, time)?? This is not Main Win/transport text

[@TheREAPERBlog]

There's transport status text (big numbers) and main window/transport text (selection and bpm) but there are also colors to set in rtconfig transport section

[@mike-aaa]

@@TheREAPERBlog of course rtconfig ! set text_color

[@SergeFlashMan]

Can you share just this border pic? Cool little tweak.

[@Ezaky4444]

where Can I download this modification ?

[@yesterdaysfire]

I guess I will try to figure out how to go back to using the older legacy versions. I had a custom layout in reaper 5 that I loved and now in 6 it’s so much more of an arduous process to get a customized workflow that works well and helps with expediting the producing, mixing, and mastering process.. I don’t know how many folks requested a new customization system... but, I feel that it’s super unfortunate that we’ve gone more toward an aesthetic direction instead of a workflow direction when developing reaper.. :/

[@TheREAPERBlog]

you can simply choose a version 5 theme from the menu. The new custom stuff doesn't take away from what was there already.

[@briandress2448]

how do you put the transport bar at the top?

[@WarBeer]

Fantastic video! Thank you SO much for putting all of this info in one great video and for taking the time to explain it so clearly;)

[@y.belowmusic]

Thank you for the video! Please tell me, is it possible to change the gray color at the very top of the screen? Also, gray color (effects window) and other menus. All windows are like a dark theme, on mac os Mojave...

[@mark-ze4en]

Looking forward to your new theme. I recently downloaded version 5.9 and it changed the fader on a trim for all the track . I had the faders on each trim track and it reverted to a simple (very small) dial which is more difficult to utilize. How can I get those faders back on my trim? Thanks! Mark

[@riskzerobeatz]

You are a great inspiration. Thanks for sharing your knowlegde!

[@banigrisson]

Just in the off chance anyone reads this: I'm trying to get the track layouts from v5 to v6 theme. Any idea how to do it? Any video I could watch?

[@LiveBitterVal]

Hi. Great work . you got a sub. :) Any chance i can find out how to change from dual waveforms on the same track to the normal single waveform ? I don t like to see 2 mirrored waveforms when i import media , samples etc. Stupid question but it is so annoying. cheers

[@TheREAPERBlog]

mono files will have a single waveform. you can change the channel mode from stereo files but you'll lose the width in the process.

[@LiveBitterVal]

@@TheREAPERBlog Thanks a lot. 🤝💪

[@boldbearStudios]

Thanks Jon for your effort on explaining this!

[@jazzbeats8168]

thanks for this ! really helpful, do you know where to learn to change the color of fx buttons when on/off and without fx...its a bit difficult to distinguish between 3 states atm.

[@TheREAPERBlog]

This is in the Theme Tweak window, search "FX text".

[@patjackmanesq]

Wow. Fantastic work!

[@Ed2O07]

I can't find the preview notes on add/edit in the menu, which one is it?

[@TheREAPERBlog]

Options: Preview notes when inserting or editing

[@MrMarconi2010]

Good work Jon.

[@jonmatthews4254]

Where can I download the Reaper 6 theme? It doesn't show up in Themes for some reason, I'm using Win 7.

[@TheREAPERBlog]

options, themes, default.

[@jonmatthews4254]

@@TheREAPERBlog Thanks, I can't believe I didn't try that, I guess I was expecting "Default ". Cheers.

[@playmode3976]

Hey..nice vid.. Just wondering where i can find The js pitch bend controle controler plug in my bender is broken ..

[@TheREAPERBlog]

it comes with reapack extension

[@bobsondugnutt5688]

what's the font you"re using in your transport panel? it's perf!

[@TheREAPERBlog]

Futura

[@CFox.7]

Some of the best hair on youtube ! Envious. Do you make custom templates for paypal ? I want my mouse behaviour to model a specific DAW. I just want to create music... i dont want to read manuals and watch vids.. my real world job is very technical and its the last thing I want to do when I sit down at the music computer

[@christianetchepare3071]

Hi, thanks for all yours videos!! I can't find the folder where are Meter_png files to rename them (with zz). I searched in: C:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\REAPER\ColorThemes But i found only "ThemeZip" and nothing else Thanks for you help, Christian

[@TheREAPERBlog]

you missed the beginning of the video where I extracted the theme

[@christianetchepare3071]

@@TheREAPERBlog Thanks! It's now ok

[@eaccin]

Thanks!

[@michal.ochedowski]

This well known sentence "You can customize your DAW" just got a whole new meaning. Get ready for some serious tweaking! Definitely not for me, but I bet some Reaper enthusiasts will dive right in.

[@YuriKovalyov]

Themes good! Sank You!

[@stuartwrigglesworth9339]

Fantastic video thank you very much

[@xaosnox]

Thanks for this, Jon. Themes are a huge part of what makes REAPER so great. Aesthetics are very important to me when I'm working, and we all have such different taste. I have to admit, I was extremely disappointed when v6 came out and the Imperial 5 theme that WT teased us with in 2016 (saying it was 6 months from completion) was not the official theme(s). When he went silent on the thread, I thought for sure it was because Cockos were going to take the look of REAPER to new heights with v6. Maybe we'll see that theme finished by 2024.

[@yesterdaysfire]

Man, the new reaper customization settings system sucks now. Can we please go back to how it was before?

[@HAAKEY.EIGHT23HUNNA]

Tel me how the fuck set mixer panel to the right im not talking about track panel

[@andivax]

R6 theme is bad (ergonomically). I'll stick with R4 theme ))

[@MamaivskyOgliadach]

And on the Right Coast (Obolon' district) live less conservative people ; ))

[@andivax]

@@MamaivskyOgliadach it's all about ergonomics and usability.

[@dna598]

Hi Thanks for all your work. I use this theme tiny.cc/fusionframe. Can't live without it's "track selection frame". You might like it too, and i was wondering if you had an idea how to put this frame in the MCP and also into other themes? Thanks again

[@TheREAPERBlog]

that is really cool. I'll try to figure that out

[@TheREAPERBlog]

tcp_bgsel; mcp_idxbg_sel

[@dna598]

@@TheREAPERBlog hey nice one. I put it in the Default 6 folder and on the TCP it comes out with the right side of the frame missing, and the mcp_idxbg_sel is just a wider oval dot.

[@TheREAPERBlog]

oh you can't just replace, you have to edit the ones that come with default 6. I added a border and reduced the opacity of the semi-transparent areas. tcp_idxbg_sel.png is the part under the track number and the white selected indicator. Don't forget about the 3 sizes as well, which unfortunately can't be just batch resized.

[@dna598]

@@TheREAPERBlog oh ok, looks like i got some more reading to do. Thanks!

[@WV591]

sick and fucking tired of all these dark background themes everyone has. WTF is going on. everybody imitating everybody else.