Separate item and track volume settings
In short, setting the "volume/fader range" maximum to 0db in order to limit track faders max range to 0db means that there is no way (that I know of) to boost the gain of individual media items, because the range for the volume in the media item's setting becomes limited to 0db. There are a lot of practical reasons why it would be preferable to be able to boost the gain of a clip by an amount greater than one would prefer to set the maximum value for track faders, and in other DAWs that I have worked in, individual audio clip/item gain has always been handled separately from settings for track faders. In my particular case, I have to set the max fader volume to 0db as a workaround to limitations in Reaper's midi handling, but working with voiceover, I routinely need to be able to boost specific sections of the audio in order to have a good working gain pre-fx to start with. In practice, this means that I have to change the fader range setting back and forth while I am working.
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