Installation

At first, please follow the installation instructions for Helgobox, the add-on that contains Playtime.

Playtime main toolbar button

After installing Helgobox, the easiest way to access Playtime is by using the convenient Playtime button in REAPER’s main toolbar.

You can add this button very easily by doing this:

  1. Select Extensions  Helgobox  Show welcome screen

  2. Check "Add Playtime button to toolbar"

welcome dialog

Alternatives

If you don’t like that button, here are a few alternatives.

Manually removing the Playtime button from the main toolbar is not going to work: You will have it back the next time you start REAPER. In order to remove the button permanently, open above-mentioned welcome screen and disable the checkbox!

Start directly via action

Playtime provides the action Helgobox/Playtime: Show/hide Playtime, which you can invoke from the REAPER action list or via Extensions  Helgobox  Playtime  Show/hide Playtime. In the action list, you can also assign your preferred keyboard shortcut. The default is Shift+Cmd/Ctrl+P.

Add the button to another toolbar

You can add the Playtime Playtime button to your own toolbar like this:

  1. Right-click the toolbar and choose Customize toolbar…​

  2. Click Add…​ (should open the REAPER action list)

  3. Search for the action Helgobox/Playtime: Show/hide Playtime and double-click it.

That’s it! you should now see the button in your custom toolbar.