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Contents.15 Customization: Actions, Mouse Modifiers, Menus and Toolbars 15.1 Introduction Customization is the key to unlocking REAPER's real power and making the program work for you. The more you use the program, the more you will benefit from customizing its many features. Even occasional users will find that they can benefit from taking the time at the very least to tweak some of REAPER's mouse modifiers and keyboard shortcuts. That's what this chapter is about.By now you should already have come across some of REAPER's options and preferences settings and it's quite likely that you might have already changed some of these to suit your own workflow. This chapter really lifts the lid on customization and will guide you thru the following:Actions. REAPER makes extensive use of keyboard shortcuts. In addition, it has a library of hundreds of actions that you won't find on any of its menus, actions which can help you with any number of tasks.

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Moreover, you can string whole sequences of these actions together to make your own custom commands which can then be triggered off by a single keystroke.Mouse Modifiers. REAPER uses the mouse for plenty of activities, some of which you have already encountered (like moving and copying media items and making time and loop selections), some of which you have not yet encountered (like editing automation envelopes). Some of these you will use a lot, some you will use a little, and some you will only use rarely, if ever. Any of them can be changed.Menus. Most REAPER menus can be edited to suit your own requirements.

You can move to the top the commands most important to you. You can hide the ones you never use. You can even add your own custom actions and commands to these menus!Toolbars. REAPER's toolbar might not be much to look at, with its lonely collection of just fourteen tools. Did you know, though, that you can add your own tools to it, as well as create your own extra toolbars?These are the topics that will be covered in this chapter.

Spend as much time as you need to get to understand it. It will pay you dividends.15.2 REAPER Actions Essentials Before we look inside REAPER's Action List Editor to explore the world of shortcut keys, custom actions, control surface assignments and more, it's worth taking stock of a couple of useful resources that are available to you.Key bindings and mouse modifiers opens your default web browser with a list of all current keyboard shortcut and mouse modifiers. This list is searchable and may be printed.Choose the Action list as HTML command from REAPER's Help menu to open your default web browser with a list of all of REAPER's many available actions, any of which can be assigned to a keyboard shortcut and/or combined with other actions into your own custom actions.

This list is also searchable and may be printed.Before you rush off to print anything, keep in mind also that this information is also contained within the Action List Editor itself, and that this editor is searchable.The editor is opened by choosing the Actions command from REAPER's main menu, then Show action list., or simply by pressing the? Let's take a look inside?ReaScript documentation. Just what ReaScript is will be explained later in this chapter and in Chapter 24. In brief, ReaScript items can be used to add additional functionality to REAPER. A number of sample scripts can be found at, and downloaded from, stash.reaper.fm/tag/Scripts. They need to be placed inside the Scripts sub-folder within your REAPER applications data directory.

They can then be selected and executed within REAPER's Actions list editor by clicking on the Reascript Load button.15.3 The Action List Editor Environment You'll get more out of REAPER's Action List Editor (shown below) if before trying to use it you take a little time getting to know its interface, its structure and how you can navigate it.ItemCommentsFilterYou can filter the list of displayed actions using any text string or strings that you like. For example, in this screen shot the list has been filtered to show only those actions that relate to track height. Boolean search terms are supported. For example, you could search for any of these:.

delete OR remove OR clear. insert ( item OR media ) (spaces before and after parentheses). properties ( take NOT channel ) (spaces before and after parentheses)Notice that where an existing keyboard shortcut exists it is shown to the left of the action. For example, the!

Key is used to toggle the action View: Expand selected track height, minimize others. Similarly, you can see that Ctrl Shift Mousewheel can be used to adjust the height of any track selection. In the second example (below), a filter is used to list all actions relating to new tracks. The only one of these that currently has an assignment is Track: Insert new track, This is assigned by default to Ctrl T.ClearThe Clear button clears any current filter and restores all actions to the list.Find shortcut.The Find shortcut. Button is used to see if a particular keyboard shortcut has already been assigned to any action. When you click on this button, you are prompted to type the key or move a MIDI controller.

We'll come to MIDI controllers later in this chapter. If the key that you type is already in use, then its assignment will be displayed (see below). In this example above, we have searched to see if an assignment exists for the letter s. For this kind of search, you should only type in upper case if you really are searching for the combination of Shift with the letter. For example, in this case, a search for Shift S would have produced Item: Split item at time selection. In this second example, we have searched for Ctrl A: If no shortcut exists for the key or key combination for which you are searching, then a message Shortcut not found will be displayed.Column headers/ Sort keysThe State column indicates for toggle actions whether their current status is on or off.

By default, actions are listed in alphabetical order of their action name. You can click on the Shortcut column header to sort instead on current keyboard assignments. This causes them to be sorted instead by keyboard assignments, with special characters and numbers at the top of the list (see below).This can be especially helpful if you wish to familiarize yourself with REAPER's current keyboard shortcut assignments. Click on the column header again to reverse the sort order. Click on Description to sort them back into alphabetical order.SectionsThe Action List is divided into a number of sections, shown here.

The Main section is the one that is used most of the time (for example, when you are working in Arrange view). There are different sections, for example, for actions and shortcuts for use with the Media Explorer and the MIDI Editor. If you open the Action List from within one of these environments, the correct Action List section will automatically be selected for you. Otherwise, you can select any section from the drop down list and that section's actions will also be selected and displayed in the action list.RunAny action that is on the action list can be executed from within the action list whether it has a shortcut key assigned or not. Simply select the action, then click on the Run button.If the option Show recent actions is enabled on REAPER's main menu (above) then any actions that you execute in this way during your current work session will be added to REAPER's Action menu and can be executed from there for the rest of that work session.