Imagine naming a track and having it automatically have a color and icon applied. That's what you can do with this powerful Reaper script. It saves time and helps you organize your workspace, visually.
What Is Auto Color/Icon/Layout?
Reaper’s Auto Color/Icon/Layout feature automatically assigns colors and icons to tracks, regions, and markers based on their names. This streamlines your workflow and makes projects easier to navigate.
With this feature, you can define rules like, “Whenever I name a track GTR, color it blue and assign an electric guitar icon.”
All my blue guitar tracks.
Auto Color/Icon/Layout also supports rule prioritization, so you can manage in which order the rules fire, ensuring your most important rules take affect.
It's a powerful tool for maintaining organization in complex sessions, letting you focus on creativity rather than project management.
How To Use Auto Color/Icon/Layout
Auto Color/Icon/Layout Window
You can open the Auto Color/Icon/Layout options from the action list. Then you'll see 7 labeled columns: #, Rule type, Filter, Color, Icon, TCP, and MCP.
Congratulations -- you've just created your first auto color/icon/layout rule. You made it for a track, but you can also create rules for markers and regions.
How To Set Rule Priority
You might want you subgroup masters to be a different color that the tracks under them. That way, it's easier to visually locate your subgroup masters. But if you have a rule that everything that contains the word "Guitar" is blue, and your subgroup is called "Guitar Master", it will automatically be colored blue.
Never fear -- we can set up a rule that supersedes the blue rule. Create a new track rule that labels anything with the word 'Master' in it a different color. Drag that rule above your "guitar" rule. Voila! All your subgroup masters will have a different color.
