Re-installed Reaper to see what I've been missing. I’ve used it off and on since V1. There's barely any organisation or structure to where things are in the menus. All the options are there but there's no context to what is put in front of you. This is stuff that was all described in that blog posted I linked before that was posted in 2017.
Anyway.
First thing I see looks like this.
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Then to work out how to change resolution and sizing settings requires diving around google. The internal help and search bars don't point towards any scaling settings but digging through these menus with tiny text and tons of options we get to scale it.
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Setting it to 2x scaling helps in some areas, but does nothing in others. So you're left with a right mess of some things being too big (where there's not even enough space for the text to fit (like the meters), some being way too small.
That’s before even doing anything but when software is so reliant on having long lists within every menu, and every dialog box having tons of options crammed in, they at least need to be somewhat visible. Pretty sure every Reaper user has to default to googling whatever they need to do because the naming conventions and locations for things will require so much digging around.
Still just looks awful to me. So much stuff is tiny to read, tiny to click and just using space badly. I know it’s possible to get used to it, and adapt it to try to minimise the pain but it’s just a mess. I’ve used basically every DAW out there at some point in my life and while others have their quirks, Reaper is in a whole different league of pain for me to use.
