[RWP] Editing only the selected track

[Scott Chesworth]

Hi Tuukka,

In Reaper, as soon as tracks have data on them they contain a minimum
of 1 item. You can loosely think of items being Reaper's version of
what Sonar calls clips, Pro Tools calls regions, and presumably
Audacity has some similar equivalent.

So, to solve your issue, here's the workflow.

1. Navigate to the track you want to work with using up and down arrows.
2. Make your time selections on that track using Alt+Shift+[ for the
start of selection and Alt+Shift+] for the end of selection.
3. Here's the key part, you now need to select the item you want to
work with. From what you described, I'd assume that your tracks in
this project currently only have one item per track as there haven't
been any splits performed or multiple items placed on one track as
yet. So, Ctrl+right arrow should do the trick.
4. Now use standard cut, copy, paste or delete commands. It should
only apply to the selected item, hence only affect that track.

For the first few edits, you'll probably think items are pointless.
Eventually I came to realise that they're powerful for mixing and
matching content on tracks, and are great for comping takes too.
Hopefully in time you'll reach the same conclusion.

Hth
Scott

On 10/13/10, Tuukka Ojala <tuukka.ojala at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi again! Since my last message I have played around more with Reaper and
> I'm starting to feel at home with it. However, this time I've come up with a
> question regarding operations with only the selected track.
>
> In my project I have two guitar tracks which have to be aligned properly and
> cleaned out. Both tracks had some chords in the beginning which had to be
> removed. Now, when I selected only the second track (either pressing shift +
> down or alt + insert), selected the audio and removed it, the same amount of
> audio was removed from both tracks.
> The same happened also when I was trying to move the second track to the end
> of the first track. I selected the second track, pressed shift+end and then
> cut the selection but then the audio in the first track was cut out as well.
>
> Is there any way I could overcome this issue? I would be happy to move from
> Audacity to Reaper, but this kind of problems prevent me from using Reaper
> for any real work.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tuukka
>
>
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