Didn't I reply to this an hour ago? Ah! Now I see, cross-posting are we, Susan? :-) I'll link to my reply in here:

My Warning was joke Debbie I don't think Cockos would ever think of doing anything so patronising Of course you couldn't see my tongue in cheek ;)

I'm starting to get this feeling with Reaper... that there are things I want to do, that I can't work out how to do, or that just cannot be done. Maybe they can be done, but they're hidden away in menus and shortcuts that I don't know about! For instance... I would love to be able to select some tracks, and hit a key-command, and have those tracks route to a brand new track, and have their master sends inactive - effectively using a new track as a bus for the tracks I had selected. I can't figure out how to do this with macro's.

The example in the first post is a good one. I'm still searching for the place where i can switch off this (for me annoying) behaviour for each new item. So the first thing i do after having created a new item is to switch it off by right-click -> Item settings -> untick Loop item source. I'm used to it since the first days i've been using Reaper. I think, i would miss it sorely if some day i happen to read how to switch it off in general as a default... So please, don't tell me :D

Hi all, I'm still in my 1st month of Reaper and had a few headaches tbh... I've spent WAY more time reading thru the help doc than I have actually working on the program. I honestly don't think this differs though from when I 1st had to learn Cubase. I reckon it took me a year (at least) of blunderin on that to be comfortable, but even now there are things on there that I'm not familliar with. I reckon unless you're physically shown what's what by someone in the know, you can't avoid the frustrating learning curve. It's doing my head in at times learning Reaper, but I didn't really expect it to be any different.

Show/Hide Docker is a good idea Show/Hide Big Clock is a good idea Show/Hide Folder tracks is a good idea Show/Hide tracks in mixer is a good idea and more.....all for the same reason, less clutter, more screen space, easier to see what you are doing. Why not Show/Hide Advanced features in menus? So long as you can turn them on easily It's pretty standard Windows stuff

Hi, I like it that there are a lot of possibilities. I don't mind searching through the preferences and right click menus. And I don't mind asking for help here on the forum. So, I don't want 'Advanced' and 'Easy' toolbars / menus. That would make it more complex for me. But that's MHO... so shoot me ;) Eddy

MichaJo, you can untick 'enable loop source for items' in the preferences. I believe it to be prefs->project->default. I'd like customizable menues. Would be cool if I could add my custom actions together with the hint to what key they are assigned and to reorder them a bit, as well as shortening some of the descriptions, so menues aren't that wiiiide. Menue items wouldn't need to be hidden completely at all, but perhaps gathered under a sub menue. Though I wouldn't use it for the easy - advanced purpose at all. That said, what does it help in the given example? Would 'loop source' be considered advanced? New users looking for the way to make items loop would be confused even more, when they'd first have to tick some 'show advanced' option to make it visible. I really would like to see some context sensitive tipps window like that in the preferences. The 'loop source' text could reveil what the option does and tell me that the 'source' can also be defined as a section of the file in the items properties (which means in english, that the loop borders can be changed there, tell me about geekiness...).

is the wiki dead?

geek speek: take a look at the new options in themes, "copy to" and a number?