[RWP] new to reaper, looking for resources

[indigo]

Hi Ondrej,
Here are instructions on audio editing, in Reaper; written by Patrick 
Purdue on MidiMag:

snip: It's like SoundForge, but slightly more twisted.
To edit everything on the entire timeline, use alt shift left bracket to 
start the selection, alt shift right to end. Comma and period will move 
the entire time selection left and right, respectively. Control alt 
comma and period will shrink and expand the length of the selection 
according to the zoom ratio, which is increased/decreased with numpad 
plus and minus. Pressing delete, so long as you are in the context of 
time selection, will delete that selection. You can scrub with the left 
and right arrow keys. Just a note, this works much better when screen 
readers that aren't Jaws are loaded, as it is generally more responsive.


If you want to edit audio on a single track, scrubbing and using the 
split item command, (s,) at the start and end point of the selection to 
be manipulated, is the easiest way to go about it. There is also ripple 
editing to consider. If Reaper is set to ripple off, any item you delete 
on a track will simply be replaced by nothing, I.E. silence. Ripple one 
track has the effect of any material on the track collapsing on the 
previously edited position on the timeline for that track, and effects 
the timeline of that track only. Ripple all tracks will edit the entire 
timeline, whether you have just performed a delete on one item of one 
track. Sometimes it's far easier editing everything at once than using 
the start/end/nudge method.
While editing items, you can also do fun things like increasing or 
decreasing the length of that item in small steps, if, for example, you 
deleted too much from the edge and want to zoom back in on the original 
material, easily done since it's all non-destructive. Likewise, you can 
zoom an item or group of items along the timeline for each track, which 
makes lining things up that didn't necessarily come from a single source 
a lot more fun than it might otherwise be.

You can definitely achieve the level of accuracy you can get with 
SoundForge, all be it in a totally different way. I now use Reaper for 
most editing things, but SoundForge still does, and will always have 
it's place, or something like it.

One other thing I forgot to mention is that using ""repeat," set with 
control+r, will give you a much better idea of what goes on in a time 
selection. It will simply loop the time selection until turned off, or 
the selection is removed. You can nudge the time selection and hear it 
change in real time. You can, likewise, get the same effect when moving 
items along a track, without stopping and restarting to hear the effect. 
snip.
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