Would Anyone Use or Prefer a Vertically Scrolling Reaper?

I cut my teeth on old school trackers, where everything scrolls bottom to top instead of right to left. That STILL makes more sense to me since I can always see more of the tracks at once this way. Why has right to left scrolling become the ipso facto standard for DAWs today? Is it so inconceivable that one could have to option to scroll a different direction? Is anyone intrigued by this or do you all just scratch your head and say "why the feck would you want that, Poofox?" And I'm talking EVERYTHING here from the project view to the navigator to the piano roll(I mean, wouldn't it be great to see some 7 octaves of piano roll at once while it was docked?). Could also potentially be integrated into the mixer view and eliminate the need for a separate project view, depending on how tall you like your. If I made this a feature request, would ANYONE but me use it? Just curious. It sure would love to see Reaper incorporate this, but I know there are bigger issues which should take priority.

well the main thing is when im moving sections of a song around and playing with arrangement, its quite helpful to be able to see as many tracks at once as possible. but maybe theres a nostalgia factor as well...

I don't think Reaper would work well with a tracker format. As I'm sure the OP knows, trackers are very pattern-dependent, whereas Reaper has no pattern functionality. There's already a lengthy thread on this topic, somewhere around here.

The vertical format would be great for pure mixing. Some larger consoles and Nuendo 5 have this kind of thing for their mixer window, where a preview of the incoming audio is shown above the MCP. I'm told it's great for mixing. Being a former tracker user myself, I can't see everything working well this way, though a tracker-style view for note entry would be pretty awesome.

how 'bout diagonal ... :rolleyes: sorry but I get really bored with people wanting reaper to be like something else they are used to... how 'bout changing YOU?

Here is the existing discussion thread for a vertical piano roll, I believe there is also a feature request (which, along with "pattern-based" FRs, should probably be considered as never happening)

I'm still working on how to get to run my computer on steam.

I never got into trackers, but I would be interested in seeing the benefits a vertical scrolling sequencer would bring. Traditional piano rolls scrolled vertically after all and on the subject of diagonal stuff, having a vertical piano roll view that had a tiltable far-to-near 3D perspective with notes coming towards you would be different and would liven the piano roll experience up no end.

Not my quote, buddy :D

You could make a theme with all the icons & text rotated 90 degrees, then just flip your monitor on its side :p