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There’s a few things that I feel unnecessarily increase the learning curve of Reaper: The graphic is the best indicator I could come up with (by ripping off eve/editor memes) that represents how it feels to try and learn Reaper. All DAW fanboys do, but for some reason the Reaper nuts are bottom-of-the-barrel brainless. I really appreciate the community at the Reaper forums, but in the wild, you guys suck. Often in the past Reaper wasn’t even yet capable of the workflow necessary to solve the issue. I’ve seen these nutjobs in the strangest of places, and rarely do they understand what they are responding to or if/how Reaper would even help the person. You’ll check your favorite forum and see an interesting thread about starch:water ratios in corn bread, then someone comes along to suggest that you try Reaper. The real problem is outside of the Reaper forums there’s a number of users that, baffling scientists worldwide, somehow manage to operate a computer. While there are some morons there like any public or near-public space, it’s an overall positive and progressive group of people. People at The Reaper Forums are awesome folks. Geoffrey Francis, if you read this, I am willing to offer much more specific and targeted criticism with examples if it would help improve the user guide.

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I always prefer to read manuals than watch videos, but Kenny’s Reaper Videos are vastly superior to the User Guide, even for someone that hates watching videos.

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It do appreciate that the manual exists, but it’s yet to serve me any purpose other than to frustrate and confuse.

Images/descriptions across page/spine boundaries.

Information for some functions is “hidden” in walk-throughs that a more experienced user may not think to look at.

Frequent terminology mistakes ( or is it Reaper that’s wrong?).

Typographic disaster - This could have a whole post itself.

Way too many walk-throughs instead of technical information.

Presence of images can turn an explanation to 2 words per line.

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The formatting is inconsistent (I’ve checked multiple PDF renderers).

Reaper’s User Guide is quite poor and the thanklessness of the job will continue. Yes, I have high-standards for technical documentation, since I basically read every manual of every item that I own (I am not exaggerating). Unfortunately those things do not change the fact that the Reaper User-Guide is not very good. It’s not easy, it’s thankless and it’s tiring. Let me start out by saying that I understand how much work it is to write and maintain a technical document for such a large piece of software. This section is becoming disheartening to continue writing.

Docking - What’s dockable? What’s not? Who knows until you try!.

Items->Item Settings! There’s probably a few dozen of examples like this!! What about “Play all Takes”? Items->Take right? Hah! No.

Menus - Where do you think you’d find the “Take Lane Behaviour” menu? Obviously in the Items->Take menu right? No! It’s under Options.

Control placements from other elements, edges, line-spacing etc… all over the place.

GUI spacing - spacing is all over the place.

(If they all at least acted the same, that would be to consistent) If you have the mixer open the you can’t access any of the normal Reaper top-level menus! Same goes for most, but of course not all dialogs.

OS X menu bar is FUBAR - depending on what window you have open, the menu bar in OS X changes.

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Floating windows - Like a box of chocolates, you never know where your windows are going to be unless they are docked… except see point 1.

Some of them are strangely missing commond options like “New Folder” and browse types.

File dialogs are all over the place - If you open a file dialog to search for a file, you never know which dialog you’ll get.

Sometimes “Command” duplicates, sometimes it adds, sometimes it deselects something etc…

Projects only save window positions that are manually set - You can open your project and it looks totally different than when you closed it if you don’t know the workaround!.

Mouse modifiers are an easy target, but there’s plenty of other things: I think most users by default double-click the envelope to try and add a point (which doesn’t work!), and nobody would rightfully think to use the “ignore snap” key to add a point!

Even though for this command there’s no horizontal movement, the “Shift” key has been assigned a task that has nothing to do with snapping.