[RWP] changing tempo in reaper.

[Scott Chesworth]

You do know that it's easy to scrub and nudge already? I haven't done
much with either in Sonar so not sure what the differences are.

On 5/23/10, Monkey Pusher <monkeypusher69 at gmail.com> wrote:
> that would be nice especially if it will let you get down to the
> milisecond  like the selection dialogue box in sound forge or goldwave
> or something that will let us jump by samples like the scrubbing or
> nudging in sonar.
>
> On 5/23/10, Scott Chesworth <scottchesworth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As things stand currently, the beat/measure movement still applies
>> even when the timebase is set to time. You can use Ctrl+J to jump to
>> specific times by separating minutes and seconds with a colon, and you
>> can read the current position of the cursor in time using Alt+Shift+J.
>>
>> Hopefully, an update will materialise sometime soon from Russia to tie
>> up the loose ends here, I'm hoping to be able to jump minutes instead
>> of measures and 5 second chunks instead of beats sometime.
>>
>> Hth
>> Scott
>>
>> On 5/23/10, Monkey Pusher <monkeypusher69 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> navigating through a project w that is set to  time instead of beat or
>>> mesures  do you still  use the page up and down keys and does it still
>>> move by beat/mesure?
>>>
>>> On 5/22/10, Scott Chesworth <scottchesworth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Derek,
>>>>
>>>> Only started exploring this myself last night, so forgive the
>>>> inevitable rambling.
>>>>
>>>> For simplicity, let's assume you have a project with a single track of
>>>> audio, you know it was recorded to a click, but you want to identify
>>>> the original bpm then be able to adjust that at will.
>>>>
>>>> First, we need to ensure that the timebase for this track is set to
>>>> time, rather than beats or position or anything else, otherwise when
>>>> Reaper adjusts the project tempo it's also going to start tinkering
>>>> with the playrate of the audio before we want it to. Set the timebase
>>>> for the track in the track menu, or do it for the whole project in
>>>> project settings if you prefer.
>>>> Next, we need to mark out a bar (or measure on your side of the pond)
>>>> for Reaper to be able to figure out the bpm. Place the time selection
>>>> neatly around a measures worth of audio with Alt+Shift+[ and
>>>> Alt+Shift+]. You can check the selection is neat by looping the
>>>> selection, or my new favourite way is to jump to slightly before the
>>>> start of the time selection and then use Alt+Space to play missing out
>>>> that chunk you've selected. Whichever method you choose, if everything
>>>> sounds neat and in time you should be good to go.
>>>> Now, we need the actions list because by default this action isn't
>>>> bound to a keystroke. Hit F4 to show the actions list, and type tempo
>>>> into the filter box you land in. Tab round to the multi-select list
>>>> box of choices, and choose "Set project time signiture / tempo from
>>>> time selection...". Tab round to "Run/close", and you should be taken
>>>> directly to the project settings box. Shift tab once will read you the
>>>> new tempo Reaper has decided upon, and it's unlikely to be right on
>>>> the money but it will be close if you're selection was accurate.
>>>> Accept it, because annoyingly the box is read only at this stage. Now
>>>> when you play the project, the click should be roughly right although
>>>> it'll probably drift over time. Head back into Project Settings with
>>>> Alt+Enter and adjust that tempo to the nearest whole number, and that
>>>> should cure the drifting, think Reaper is a bit oversensitive.
>>>> The last step is to make sure that your track or project timebase
>>>> (whichever you modified earlier) are set back to "Beats (position,
>>>> length, rate) so that the audio will sync. Now, if you try adjusting
>>>> the project tempo in project settings, the track should sync to each
>>>> change perfectly.
>>>>
>>>> FWIW, I've only tried this so far on quite standard tempo 4/4 stuff as
>>>> time is of the escence here at the mo, but I'd assume it can work with
>>>> other time sigs too because the boxes to specify those aren't read
>>>> only at any stage, my guess is that the read only tempo box would
>>>> recalculate if you typed in 6/8 or whatever.
>>>>
>>>> Hth
>>>> Scott
>>>>
>>>> On 5/22/10, Derek Lane <derek at pdaudio.net> wrote:
>>>>> I'm missing how to get audio to sync to tempo.  The autodetect features
>>>>> seem
>>>>> to not be working, and checking the box to do this in the project
>>>>> properties
>>>>> is doing nothing.  Can someone tell me what I'm missing or provide a
>>>>> step
>>>>> by
>>>>> step reference as to how this is to be done?
>>>>
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