Selecting the Custom option allows you to choose which mix elements you'd like saved in your snapshot. Here we can see that the Custom button has been selected, releasing all tick boxes. For example, you might want to save only the volume settings, or the volume and pan, or only the effects chains. This enables you to select which mix elements you wish to save into your snapshots. When the Custom option is enabled, all of these tick boxes are made available. This is just as intended: it means that all six of these mix elements will be saved with your mixer snapshots.
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When the Full Track Mix option is enabled, many of the tick boxes (Pan, Volume, Mute, Solo, FX Chain and Sends) will be dimmed and therefore unavailable to you. Immediately below this there is a set of three mutually exclusive radio buttons, labelled Full Track Mix, Current Visibility and Custom. The New button (top right) is used to create and save a new snapshot.
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For now I'll focus on those that we need to understand and use for the two purposes I mentioned above. The many options and commands are all explained in detail in the official SWS manual. If, when you open the window, the various options on the right are not visible, click on the Show Options button to display them. SWS Snapshots are accessed by choosing the View / SWS Snapshots command from Reaper's main window. This capability is often overlooked or not understood, especially by novice users. Otherwise you'll be missing out on great features that include automatic track/item colouring, marker and region management, a command console and mixer snapshots! For me, the best of this very good bunch is the snapshots feature, so in this article I'll focus on just two of its many uses: to save and recall complete mixes at the click of a mouse and to save and recall different specific mix elements only for currently selected tracks.
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If you haven't already done so, I'd definitely encourage you to download the donationware SWS Extensions (which come with a free PDF manual) from and follow the installation instructions. The SWS Extensions from Standing Water Studios add an impressive number of workflow and productivity features to Reaper. The Snapshots feature in the donationware SWS Extensions adds simple and very useful mix functionality to Reaper.