haha, great picture lawrence. the environment has gotten a little less rapid since then too, but that's a fun screensot. i'd actually trade some of the eye candy for that type of usability. epic arcane menus everywhere you look and eyesore routing presentation have GOT to be addressed for v3. i can't understand for the life of me why the track routing window and the matrix still look the way they do alpha after alpha while myriad obscure little features and actions are added that are nice, and very important to a few users i'm sure. but some of reaper's oldest and most loyal users have been asking for some basic usability issues to be addressed almost since that screenshot lawrence put up. does it really make sense to keep adding advanced functions that only a small fraction of reapers users even understand the need for when there's still no action to select individual tracks directly? you're putting dual zone climate control and a navigation system in a car with no floorboards. is this just a case of the squeaky wheel getting the grease? do i have to post 5000 times and brown nose the dev team into submission for my glaringly obvious fr not to be ignored? all that said, alpha five scans a 4gb plugin folder and loads a large project in less than 1.5 seconds? it's a seriously tight peice of code whatever else you say about it. if some of the biggest usability/workflow issues get well resolved for v3 i think reaper will have finally claimed it's rightful place as the finest audio editing and mixing daw extant. and that would make my heart sing, cause it's long been the coolest.

The new default theme is very nice indeed! may tempt me away from my own...