Hello everyone,
I personally expected V5 to be more refined, to have better contrasts and gradients, but it is actually worse than V4 default theme.
It is hard to see where channel begins, and where it ends, meter is on the left now, all in all very frustrating.
I know Reaper is powerful so we can create and use whatever we like, but somehow I like to stay stock because many of my colleagues are using Reaper as well so I want to have the same look where ever I work, and this default V5 theme with all layouts still does not look clear and easy enough.
Again, I know I can load my setup file, but still.
This is something I did in 5 minutes, it is basically some contrast in FX and SEND part of the mixer, and simple gradient in channel strips, it looks much better and channels can be differentiated easily.
Default V5: