In order to maintain the overview in the mixer the width of
the mixer-tracks is crucial: If the width is too big you will
have to scroll horizontally like mad. So it is important to
have a well set track-width.
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For me the best track-width in theme-version 5 is "ba small".
Here I have a quite good overview and I seldom have to scroll
horizontally:
More infos about mixer management
here.
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With the new theme-version 6 the situation changed:
Suddenly the track-width is considerable big and the mixer
overview is lost:
Note: If you have 40 or 50 tracks beside each other with
this width you have to scroll most of the time!
The smart users have found out that you can change the
mixer to a "narrow state". You can do this for instance in the
"theme adjuster". But if you choose the "narrow state" all
the faders mutate to knobs - and again: The fader-status
overview gets lost.
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Question: How can we regain our mixer-overview?
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Luckily we have a solution. Reaper user "Intrastellar" suggested
to just edit the "rtconfig.txt" of the Default_6.0.ReaperThemeZip.
More infos
here. Thanks to "Intrastellar"!
And indeed - if you scale the width to "70" then the width of
the theme-6 tracks is the same as in "theme-5 ba small":
And you can go even further: If you choose "56" the tracks
look very clean and you get a perfect overview:
If you really want to focus on mixing - and if you want to have a good
sound - then I suggest to choose this setting: No knobs can disturb the
look and you can concentrate on driving the faders only.