REAPER 5 Explained - 30. Themes & Layouts Video Lecture | A Complete Course: Reaper Tutorial - Video & Sound Editing

okay next we're gonna check out themes
and layouts in Reaper now as I mentioned
in the introduction we could change the
theme or how Reaper looks very easily
we go to the options menu
the themes
here we could change the theme in these
tutorials I've been using the default
they come
three four five but we could switch it
to the default that came with four
it looked like this but we could use
third party themes created by users
like this one here
or Imperial
which is created by white tie
check out this mixer
pretty cool
this is another good one right here
let's go back to the default one
as I said this is the one that comes
with Reaper 5 now besides changing the
themes we can change the layouts which
are changes within each theme
so go to the options menu down over here
are layouts we can change them for
transport for envelope for the master
mixer for the mixer
the track control panel
and you can see there's a whole bunch
now it's easy to change them using
screen sets so let's open that up
go to view go down here to screen sets
so right from over here it's a lot
quicker to change our layouts we can
also change our themes from here
just choose it go to 4.0
go to Imperial we'll go back to the
default
let's go back to our layouts over here
the track control panel layouts which is
right here
we've been using large because it makes
it easier to see with bigger controls
but we can change that
let's go through some of these this is
the standard one right here
which looks like this
this is the standard one with readouts
the volume over here the pan over here
there's a bunch of other ones
so part of the standard like this one
with a really big fader the throw is
from here to here
there's a few other really cool ones
like right down here if a full meter
see the meter
tracking you want to see your levels we
can see the lot clearer when they're
this big
let's switch it back to large
now we also have layouts for a mixer
let's open the mixer
we've been using this one called session
mixer but the default looks like this
and there's a bunch of other ones to
choose from based on your specific needs
the sidebar one is a lot wider so it's
easier to see our effects over here or
ascends over here along with the fader
or smaller
they're a lot thinner so we could see
more tracks on a smaller screen small
sidebar
full meter
which again makes it easier to see our
meters or a level
so you can see the meters as a recording
or playing back
large
lodge sidebar
the session mixer which we've been using
kind of like the look of it's very high
def was up more detail
we could change the color the fader to
black red
or blue change the strip
so again we can see a lot more tracks in
a small window and still see the meters
very helpful while recording
full controls
live recording
meter bridge which is mostly meter
and finally just the track knee very
minimal let's put this back to session
mixer
now we can also change the height of
what goes down on the mixer if we go up
here we could bring this down and we can
see up here our effects and down here
we'll see our sends but with a closed we
don't see that
but we can change it on a track-by-track
basis so this one can be down here
seeing a lot more of this this one could
be here
so each one can be different
if you want to move them together
control on the PC welcome into the Mac
and just grab it and they all change
together
let's cause the mixer
and go back to the truck control panel
now we can also change the layouts of
our tracks individually
SOTA drums
but I'm here to select a track panel and
let's choose full meter
now our drums look at this while the
guitars still look like this so we can
see different info on different tracks
change this guitar to a big fader
so you can just it
change our kick to the standard
looks like this and now each track has
its own layout so it's very customizable
I'm back just select them all
change this back to the default appear
change back to large and we can do the
same thing for a mixer
the drums can be changed right here to
be large sidebar
or strip
or full controls
and the guitars
can be changed to this one
or this one
or back to the session mixer
and again we can put them all back by
selecting them all switching this back
to the default and they all go back to
the session mixer now a cool trick with
this is to change the color the fader
but make our drums
using a blue fader
and a guitars
can have a read fear
this makes it a bit easier to see what's
going on on each track just remember all
your drums are blue guitars a red
maybe your vocals are black your base
could be gray
just makes it easy to see what's going
on so those are the layouts now it's
important to note that every theme has a
different set of layouts so whoever
created that theme also created the
layouts so it works in this one probably
isn't gonna work in all themes so just
keep that in mind so those are the
themes and layouts in Reaper and this is
the end of this set of videos as I
mentioned in the intro if you want to
learn more about Reaper because I
couldn't possibly show you everything in
this set of videos go to the Reaper
website right here go to videos
there's a lot more videos on this page
and they're being updated all the time
so bookmark this page and check back
quite often there's so much to learn in
Reaper so anyway I thank you for joining
me I hope you learned something and I'll
see you next time
Thanks