Welcome back to TutorialsForReaper. Im Jonny from Red Sneaker Records, and we are going to go over changing your theme in Reaper. I have linked 2 of my. REAPER 5 comes with a new White Tie designed theme. Some love it, some hate it, but White Tie has good reasons for the way the V5 theme is designed. Matching tagThemes. REAPER Splashscreen by powwow. Size 411. 24 KB. 102 Views. Search Uploads. The default theme for REAPER 5 has been designed to be more easily edited by you, the user. I have done this by controlling some sections of the themes complex. X Raym Analog Reaper Theme Extrem. Raym. Reaper is the more customizable DAW from the market. We can assign actions to shortcuts, to buttons on toolbars, create macros, writte python scripts, create plugins, and we can change the software appearance with a lot of freedom. On this last point, there is a lot of themes online, but the higher customisation level you can afford, is to create your own theme I didnt knew I will make software theming one day, however, i did  Because I wanted to have a GUI that satisfy all my needs, I didnt wait a lot of time before begining to learn Walter, the system elaborated by Cockos to allow users to writte their own themes a system that handle pictures, elements placement with a custom code language etc, and I did it so intensively that I ended to writte a Synthax Highlighting Color code for Notepad, a freebie well appreciated by the community So, I design for my self a custom theme, named X Raym Analog, based on Default Analog 1. Lerian, itself based on the Reaper 4 Default theme. My theme will satisfy all the needs of users who love the default theme and who love to color their tracks. But dont forget that a theme is ergonomical solutions choosen according to the aesthetical appreciation of its author So, not everybody will like this theme, but perhaps you will find that there is good ideas in it  In any case, I tested my theme in a lot of projects of very different kinds, and it fits my needs very well If you want to download it, you can find it on this link . Download X Raym AnalogX RaymAnalog. Downloaded 6. 51. MBYou can also find it on my Reaper Config Zip file To import it, Options Preferences General Import Configuration and then, just check the Theme and Color box  Dont forget to leave a comment if you like it, I will be very happy  But why choose to use my theme more than one other Post your created color themes and icon sets in here so everybody can use them httpsstash. Hp Compaq Dc7600 S more. Scary prank calling themes. If you love the character Grim Reaper, love similar app, like Grim Reaper live wallpaperkeyboard, you must love this real call. I was in music and production for many years, and find inspiration in the analog gear and hardware of those experiences. My goal is creating themes for REAPER that. DTrmlFA/VGjdslFZ-II/AAAAAAAABQw/A9Ky900ma7k/s1600/dark%2Binline.jpg' alt='Reaper Themes' title='Reaper Themes' />The answer is  ergonomy. Below, you will find the list of all the things that define my theme. Note  The screenshots are not always made with the last version of the theme. Color Charts. The color charts came from the Default 1. I didnt invent anything on this point, because it was my starting point. That why I dont consider myself as a themer, but rather as an hardcore theme moder TCP and MCP layout you will find in this theme. Rado Style Pan Pot for the Mixer. The default Pan Pot in the mixer a rotary one. If a Pan Pot is optimum when there is not a lot of room as in the TCP, I think that a linear slider correspond much better to our sound perception. Reaper Themes' title='Reaper Themes' />Indeed, a Pan Pot Rotate from 7 0. Left Right, 9 0. To imagine the linear pan slider as a line that cross our head when we mix with headphones, or even better, as a line in front of us when we mix with speaker, line on which we place our instrument, seems to be more respresentative of the reality to me. I have immediately found this idea awesome, idea that come from the Rado theme by Rado Records, so I decided to implement it in my theme, with the consent of the team Rados style Linear Pan Slider. Shadowing Optimized for Colorisation and Track Selection. I have often arround 1. I will be completely lost without tracks colorisation. The thing is that, by default, it is the background of the track name which is colorized, which I consider to be an ergonomical issue, due to the fact that it can generates readibilty issues yellow background under white text, its not easily readable I find more pertinent to color the TCP background and leave all interactiy no text areas buttons, slider etc intact. This way, the color appears big, not just small vignette, and dont interfere with text. The thing is that by default the colorization of tracks is not perfect. Some colors are not clearly visible, especially when selected, because of the blending mod applied to these colors. Hopi tried to correct this problem in a custom theme inputting borders arround selected tracks, but some tracks colors still had trouble colors made the borders disappear when the tracks is selected. I had the idea to draw shadows and textures in the TCP, and to define the selected tracks as flat and brighter, and I tested it with every tint were good  it works  Animated demo Here All the TCP and MCP have been desaturated to not interfer with color tracks choosen by the user. Despire the fact that the TCP and Envelopes are entirely colorized, selected tracks are still easily recognizable. Notice than pan informations on the MCP are displayed on a dark grey background in order to be cleary visible no matter the color of the track. More Ergonomical Take Selection. By Default, when a take is selected, it gets darker, which, I think, is not very intuitive. Selected items have to be highlight, litterraly. So I decided to have a more lighter selection take color. More, this color is now customizable into the preferences pannel. I have to get ridd of the default texture image but its not bad  we found the same behaviour I set for TCP selection flat, without shadow. The color of selected items, green here, is customizable. Three lines height Responsive TCPThe default theme provides responsive TCP, it means that the elements appearance position, width inside the TCP are ajusted, according to the width of the TCP, which is great. But It is too responsive. There is so much levels of responsivity that there is no consitency anymore. Thus, the more we widen the TCP, the less there is lines attributed to the track control, which provoque some counter intuitive things  for example, you want to see a track title a bit long, you widen the track, and BAM, the buttons are merged, a line is deleted, and you see even less characters of the track title than before. You should have rather contract the track pannel in order to widen the track name fieldSo, I locked the responsivity on three lines maximum and reduced the number of key width to consider, which give a lot more consitency. If you want a comparaison with the original, click here Three Lines Height Responsive TCPRoom Optimisation on TCPStill on this idea to optimize the TCP, I filled the empty space that it contains. The thing is that this empty space was often left in order to display the second pan pot in dual pan mod, and that I noticed that far more later, because I really dont often use that mod. Not bad, I had the secondary pan pot on a extra line, which will be useful for some project but a minority of mines. Dual Pot  the secondary pot is on a extra line. VU Meters Color. Vu Meters colors are customizable  Customizable colors for the Metersd. B Scale in the MCPI really wanted that feature, so much that I implement it to every MCP layout that could recieve it  So usefulThanks to Marek for the tricks about the Vu Meters  B Scale on the Meters. Envelopes. By default, track envelopes are very similar to casual tracks, which is not very handy. At the begining, I thought about indent them as in Cubase, but there was a small things I didnt like when the indentation number was too high if the track was in a group inside a group inside an other group, which was not very ergonomic too Despite the fact a lot of people were interesting in that 1. Cockos Forum, I needed a real difference. Thats why I decided to set it very dark with white text, and to add shadows and textures so that they appear below in a 3. D way the tracks they reffer to. This is far more pleasing this way Shadow on the envelopes in order to be more noticeable.