REAPER Control Room · Stream Deck plugin

What it does

A T9 keypad types into REAPER from the deck. Click into a track name, a marker name, the FX browser search or a value box, then tap. In 123 mode the keys type digits; in ABC mode you tap a key again for its next letter, and Enter takes the suggested word. It sits on the first page of the Stream Deck + XL and the Stream Deck XL, and on the 15-key Stream Deck one key opens it and Close gives your keys back.
The FX Parameter dial works with any REAPER plugin. Touch a control in any FX window and hold the dial still for about a second, and that parameter is on the dial. One dial holds three parameters; a press steps between them, and the touch strip shows all three with REAPER's own value text. Parameters on the master track work like any other.
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.
Eight dials: horizontal zoom, track volume, track select, edit cursor by grid, track heights, marker navigation, Track Painter and FX Parameter. Track Painter 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 for the keys or for six of the eight dials; Track Select and FX Parameter need the feed. One optional press adds the live readings: on a Stream Deck + or a Stream Deck + XL, press the Track Select dial while its strip reads no REAPER feed, close REAPER and press again when asked, then start REAPER. The plugin installs the surface itself and keeps a backup of reaper.ini. Track Volume then rides in REAPER's own dB and Track Select scrolls REAPER's own track names. On other decks, or if the port is busy, the seven manual steps are on the Marketplace listing.
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.
Seven bundled profiles for six decks, with Easy Link built in: one per deck, plus the pop-open keypad for the 15-key Stream Deck. The Stream Deck + XL and the Stream Deck XL open on a hub with the T9 keypad, one key per category and the most used commands, such as play, record, save, undo and redo, and all 124 commands sit one press behind it.

What you need

Windows 10 or later, Stream Deck software 6.9 or newer, and REAPER 7.80. The Stream Deck + XL seats six of the eight dials at a time; a Stream Deck + seats Track Painter, Track Volume, Track Select and Horizontal Zoom.

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Good to know

Built and tested against REAPER 7.80 on Windows 10 and 11. Requires the Windows Stream Deck app 6.9 or later. Seven 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 Stream Deck Mini and the Stream Deck Neo, plus a pop-open keypad profile for the 15-key Stream Deck. The Stream Deck + XL seats six of the eight dials at a time; a Stream Deck + seats Track Painter, Track Volume, Track Select and Horizontal Zoom.
Updating from an earlier version: a profile you already installed keeps its old layout until you remove it and let the plugin install it again. Easy Link rules you captured before keep working. If you set up the OSC feed with an earlier version, the FX Parameter dial's strip reads OSC pattern out of date: press it once to update the file, which keeps a backup, then restart REAPER. A pattern file you edited by hand is never touched.
Track Select and FX Parameter both need the OSC feed, and both say why when they cannot work. Track Select's strip reads no feed, or a project with no named tracks. On FX Parameter a hold of about a second captures the parameter you touched last into the active slot; a row whose plugin cannot be found dims to no feed, and one whose plugin moved reads moved: re-capture, so hold again. Take FX, input FX and monitoring FX cannot be captured. Turn while pressing for ten times finer steps.
There are three kinds of command 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 turns only, with nothing on press or tap, and Marker Nav has no tap: every candidate for those gestures either wrote to the project or opened a window that takes over the dial's turns, so they were left off rather than shipped as a hazard. Marker Nav's press drops a marker at the cursor.
Every command 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 key's property inspector (its settings panel in the Stream Deck app) 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.