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Reaper: Limit floating plugin windows

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Demo summary

The video demonstrates the new preference to allow only one floating effects window at a time, showing how opening a new plugin automatically hides the previous one.

Step-by-step

  1. Open Preferences
  2. Navigate to the Plugins section
  3. Enable 'Allow only one floating effects at a time'
  4. Select 'One per track' from the options
  5. Click Apply

Options

  • Exclude monitoring effects
  • Exclude master effects
  • Toggle 'One per track' to allow multiple plugins across different tracks

Watch out for

  • With 'One per track' enabled, you can still have multiple plugins visible if they are on separate tracks

Tips

  • Use this setting if you want a streamlined workflow where you only see one plugin at a time
  • Turn off 'Exclude monitoring effects' if you want the single-window rule to apply to monitoring plugins as well

Highlights

That is pretty cool. You might want to try that out. If you're looking for kind of a streamlined kind of workflow.

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