[RWP] Time Selection and Trimming Midi Loops

[colin McDonald]

precisely.
you can do this with regular recorded audio as well.
Not as straight forward as selecting beats because normal audio isn't 
clocked obviously, but you can set a tempo or BPM for the project which is 
fairly accurate.
If you know that your material is at 120BPM, you can set the project tempo 
and then edit acordingly.
Using track Items is truly an excellent way of editing audio.
 you can have unlimited items on each track which can be easily selected 
using the control and arrow keys.
it gets even better when you get into scrubbing and various nudge functions.
Regards
Colin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 2:07 PM
Subject: [RWP] Time Selection and Trimming Midi Loops


> Maybe this is obvious to you, but I just now got it.
> I have a midi loop that is 2 beats too long, so it loops with a silent gat 
> at the end.
> I pressed the home key; and hear 1 measure, 1 beat.
> I pressed the end key; and hear 9 measure 2 beat, which is the end of the 
> item.
> I can  estimate  the silent gap was those 2 extra beats.
> I pressed home and set beginning of loop with alt+left bracket.
> I pressed end and again hear 9 measure 2 beats.
> I hold shift and press page up twice to back up 2 beats; so I'm now at 9 
> measures.
> I press alt+right bracket to set end of loop.
> When I play the loop with looping set with ctrl+R; it loops perfectly, so 
> the extra 2 measures are excluded from the time selection, but they are 
> still included in the item, just not selected.
> How to trim off the extra 2 beats after the 9 measure loop:
> I press shift+S to split the item into 2 items.
> Now I have 2 items, the first item with my 9 measure loop, the second item 
> with the silent 2 measures.
> While on the selected track, I press ctrl+right arrow once and hear the 
> first item announced.
> I press ctrl+right arrow again and hear the second item announced.
> I press delete and the second item is deleted.
> I save the project with the now perfect 9 measure loop.
>
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