Good, then the Reaper 4 theme should meet your requirements.

 

Power Tip for OP:

- First, make sure you have the free SWS extension for Reaper installed:
https://www.sws-extension.org
- Then open Reaper Action List and you will have these Actions available:
"SWS/S&M: Float FX 1 for selected tracks" (going up to "SWS/S&M: Float FX 8 for selected tracks" )

Assign these Actions to different keyshortcuts.
Now, with these shortcuts, you can open the FX plugin windows (without the white area) for FX plugins that are placed on a selected Track.

1 step further in even faster workflow would be this Custom Action (as example):

Custom Action:
Select Track under mouse
SWS/S&M: Float FX 1 for selected tracks

With such a Custom Action, you won't even have to select a Track first, upon opening a FX window, you just mouse point on the Track
in Arrange View and then run the Custom Action.

Hope this helps !

 

OK i give up making music.
How did you make that GIF?

 

more geek if u use audacity for mastering instead imo, reaper is more to composing/mixing but why not if u want to master audio with it imho just go ahead.. float the fx

 

Nah, Reaper 4 not good enough, Classic_1.x is much better but needs icon change

 

NO need to change Windows system theme
go to action list, run "Theme development/tweaker"
find "Window list background"
choose the dark color you like
don't forget to change "Window list text" or you won't see any text

 

Last edited: Dec 23, 2020

NOPE, this entry is the wrong one, it changes the background of the 'Add FX to:' window, NOT the 'FX: Track' one.

 

Licecap from cocko's
https://www.cockos.com/licecap/

 

Thanks @RealBananas

? for ya or anyone ? - Other than in Win10 display settings, is there a way to resize FX GUI's that are tiny! I don't get the point of some manufacturers making them so ridiculously small... now that's hard on the eyes lol.

 

Just download this:
https://tanalin.com/en/projects/integer-scaler/

Unpack, start, click on your plugin window, Alt+F11, be amazed

Now if I don't get 1000 likes on this post, then I don't know anymore

 

Right click on the Reaper desktop shortcut (taskbar right click again on Reaper in list) or, C:\Program Files\REAPER (x64)\Reaper.exe
Select properties, select the Compatibility tab, click Change high DPI settings
Under High DPI scaling overide click the check box & select System enhanced from the drop down menu
Click OK, click Apply & OK
Restart Reaper

Hope this helps.

 

aargh, Reaper does have such annoying design decisions