15.1 Introduction
Customization is the key to unlocking REAPER's real power and making the program work for you, for example by creating your own actions, assigning your own shortcut keys and customizing mouse modifiers.
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Customization is the key to unlocking REAPER's real power and making the program work for you, for example by creating your own actions, assigning your own shortcut keys and customizing mouse modifiers.
- Actions. REAPER makes extensive use of keyboard shortcuts. It also has a library of hundreds of actions
that you won't find on any of its menus. 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. This document uses PC (Windows) shortcut keys: Mac users should refer back to Chapter 1 if you are unsure of which equivalent keys to use.
- Mouse Modifiers. REAPER uses the mouse extensively, for example for moving and copying media items and making time and loop selections, and in many different contexts. These can be edited and redefined to suit your own workflow.
- 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. 7Did 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.