[RWP] I am very confused

[Derek Lane]

escape seems to clear any selection I've made.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at insightbb.com>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: [RWP] I am very confused


> 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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