[RWP] I am very confused

[Jayson Smith]

It's one of the latest threads in the newbie forum. Very obvious.
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Monkey Pusher" <monkeypusher69 at gmail.com>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: [RWP] I am very confused


>i have come to believe that an item in reaper is a clip in sonar.
> Whats the title of your thread on the reaper forum so i can follow
> that one as well i posted a question about it but not no  response on
> the reaper forum as of yet myself.
>
> On 6/1/10, Jayson Smith <ratguy at insightbb.com> wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> After posting this same question on the Reaper forums, I was lead to 
>> believe
>> that maybe the item(s) on track 1 are still selected. This begs the
>> question... What, exactly, is an item? Is an item the same thing as Sonar
>> calls a clip? I notice there doesn't seem to be any keyboard shortcuts 
>> for
>> things such as, unselect all items, unselect all tracks. In my mind, 
>> these
>> would be very useful things to be able to do quickly, so you could know 
>> for
>> certain you had a clear slate before you started selecting stuff. Is this 
>> a
>> possible explanation for the problem I'm having?
>> Jayson
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at insightbb.com>
>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 8:14 PM
>> Subject: [RWP] I am very confused
>>
>>
>>> Hello again,
>>>
>>> First, let me put some assumptions I have on the table, and insure they
>>> are correct.
>>>
>>> 1. If you use standard unmodified up and down arrow keys to move from
>>> track to track, each time you move, the track to which you just moved, 
>>> and
>>>
>>> only that track, is selected. If any other tracks were selected, they
>>> aren't any more.
>>>
>>> 2. When you use shifted up and down arrows, both the track from which 
>>> you
>>> moved and the track to which you moved are selected if they weren't
>>> already, and all other selections remain in full force and effect.
>>>
>>> Given the above, I'm not exactly sure how you would select two
>>> non-adjacent tracks without also selecting the tracks between them, but
>>> that's not the point of this message.
>>>
>>> All of this is with an install of Reaper, done two days ago, using the
>>> latest version then available. As a test, I created a twelve-track
>>> project. I recorded myself on track one, asking each of the other tracks
>>> to check in, so I could see if I had deleted anything. Then, I recorded
>>> each other track sitting there up until it is called, then speaking a 
>>> few
>>> words. So what you might hear is, "Track five? Loud and clear. Track 
>>> six?
>>> Checking in. Track seven? Present and accounted for."
>>>
>>> I wanted to delete a lot of background noise from the tracks when I was
>>> sitting there, waiting for my name to be called as it were. I know that 
>>> in
>>>
>>> a real-life situation, you would never record like this, but this was a
>>> deliberate test. So I selected tracks two through twelve. It said eleven
>>> tracks selected. Made my selection. Hit Ctrl+Del. And the thing also
>>> deleted that part of track one, which was *not* selected! Keystrokes 
>>> were,
>>>
>>> go to track two. Shift+Down arrow ten times. Final report is, track
>>> twelve, eleven tracks selected. Go to start of project. Shift+Alt+Left
>>> bracket. Go to where I wanted the delete to stop, pause. Shift+Alt+Right
>>> bracket. Ctrl+Del. Track one gone, but shouldn't be.
>>>
>>> Is there something I'm doing wrong? Is my concept of how selection works
>>> flawed?
>>> Jayson
>>>
>>>
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