NEW PROJECT Open project(s) on startup:.Having a new project of my default template gives me the fastest entry point to the most common task I have in mind when I start REAPER. An idea pops into my head, and I want to record it quickly and save it for later evaluation when I can be a bit more “objective”. I spend more time sketching these days than anything.Your browser does not support the video tag. ON Store multiple redo paths when possible (can use a lot of RAM)įile->Preferences->General->Startup Settings.Ram is cheap, so I store multiple redo paths. Despite recognizing that I never used it to heroic effect, the amount of ram used by this feature is minimal when I use REAPER (despite the warning in the dialog!). I turned on “Store multiple redo paths…” for years because I feared that losing history would be disasterous in some fabricated scenario that I never encountered.Tree-like undo stacks retain this history. In linear undo stacks, it’s not possible to get back to A2 because you rewound and rewrote history. This is a feature which allows you to store multiple undo paths: I do thing A2, undo twice, do thing B1. Necessary for undo-history to be useful.ON Save undo history with project files (in RPP-UNDO file).My ideas are fluid and persist across instantiations of the application, so my ability to rewind in history should follow suit. I do not want to close my software (intentional or not) and re-open it without my undo stack in place. I believe offline history is integral to any software with an undo stack.ON When approaching full undo memory, keep newest undo states.100 steps ago is meaningless if I cant reach back 1 step. I want a linear sequence of state that extends from my recent action to as far as possible. What happens if I somehow reach the point where no more of the undo stack can be saved? Should I value the oldest states, or the most recent states? I use undo as a rewind button, not a history button.Most users will probably find these settings irritating, but I treat selection operations as part of the commands that operation on these selections, therefore I prefer them undoable.

The ability to undo selections is a major part of reproducible editing sequences, not because of the sequence but because of mistakes that might happen during the sequence. I setup my REAPER undo so that I have maximum chance of recovering from failures. Settings File->Preferences->General->Undo Settings

Mouse: Project tempo-time signature marker.

Mouse: Project marker/region edge - left drag.

Mouse: Media item stretch marker - left drag.

File->Preferences->Editing Behaviour->Mouse.

File->Preferences->Audio->Loop Recording.

File->Preferences->Project->Media Item Defaults.

File->Preferences->General->Startup Settings.

File->Preferences->General->Undo Settings.

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