REAPER Control Room · Stream Deck plugin

What it does

77 of the 124 commands go to REAPER as its own command id rather than as a keystroke, and 34 of those reach actions REAPER ships with no default keyboard shortcut, so they work on a stock install with nothing for you to bind.
Seven dials: horizontal zoom, track volume, track select, edit cursor by grid, track heights, marker navigation, and Track Painter, which arms a colour on the touch strip as you turn and paints the selected tracks on press. Track Select browses REAPER's own track names on the strip and commits on press; hold it down and turn to ride the selected track's volume.
Five keys light from REAPER's own state over an optional OSC surface: Play/Stop, Play/Pause, Record, Repeat and Metronome. The Mixer key reads the real mixer state without it. Nothing has to be configured: with no OSC set up, every key and dial works as before.
A numbered pad jumps straight to markers 1 through 10. Drop markers as you work with the Marker Nav dial, then move around the project by number instead of scrubbing for the spot.
Six bundled profiles, one per deck, with Easy Link built in. The Stream Deck + XL opens on a hub authored from a real deck: a 3x3 paint palette, a set-marker column, transport and marker rails, six dials, and the full command pages one press behind.

What you need

Windows 10 or later, Stream Deck software 6.9 or newer, and REAPER 7.79. The Stream Deck + XL seats six of the seven dials on its hub; a Stream Deck + seats Track Painter, Track Volume, Track Select and Horizontal Zoom.

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Support

Good to know

Built and tested against REAPER 7.79 on Windows 10 and 11. Requires the Windows Stream Deck app 6.9 or later. Profiles are bundled for six decks: the 15-key Stream Deck, the Stream Deck +, the Stream Deck + XL, the 32-key Stream Deck XL, the Mini, and the Neo. The Stream Deck + XL seats six of the seven dials on its hub; a Stream Deck + seats Track Painter, Track Volume, Track Select and Horizontal Zoom.
There are three kinds of key here and they treat focus differently. The 77 command-id keys find REAPER's own window and send to it, so REAPER has to be running but does not have to be the front window, and pressing one cannot land in another app. The 14 Track Painter keys hand the colour to a script running inside REAPER, so they need it running but not in front. The 33 keystroke keys go to the active window in the usual way, so keep REAPER in front for those. With REAPER closed, the command-id keys have nothing to reach.
The Mixer key reads REAPER's real state, and that reading was tested with the mixer docked. If it loses the reading it goes dark rather than showing a stale answer. A mixer floated out into its own window may not be seen by that check, in which case the key can read closed while the mixer is on screen. Every other lit key lights from its own presses, and the Lights Off key clears all of those at once if a light gets out of step.
Track Volume and Marker Nav turn only, with nothing on press. Every candidate press for those two either writes to the project or opens a window that swallows the dial's own detents, so they were left off rather than shipped as a hazard.
Every key is remappable from the property inspector: press your combination once and that key sends exactly that from then on. Note what that does to a command-id key. A captured shortcut overrides the id route, so that key becomes a keystroke key and from then on needs REAPER focused like the other 33.
Every key can play a press sound, 33 in the box. Recordings made with our free Sound Sampler plugin appear in the same Key Sound picker under Your recordings, with no import step.

True of every plugin we make

Every key carries the app's own shortcut for that command, and every key is remappable. Type your combination into the property inspector or click Capture and press it once. Where an app leaves a command unbound, the key still reaches it by the route that app exposes.
Keystrokes go to the front window and nothing steals focus, so keep the target app in front when you press.
Every command has its own drawn key art, so the deck reads at a glance instead of listing shortcuts.

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Still stuck? Email [email protected] with the plugin name, your Stream Deck software version, and what you pressed versus what happened. A human answers.