[RWP] Playing a selected part of a wave file.

[indigo]

I'm on this very area of learning in Reaper, so I googled the Cockos 
forums for playing selected part of wave file, where users hit the 
forums for answers, where there's almost always somebody who knows.
Here's a snip of the forum with someone asking a similar related question
It takes a bit of digging, but answers are in there somewhere; like this 
answer, how to get a wave file or selected portion of a wave file to 
play:, by taking it to Sound Forge or other wave editor:
When you're are finished and close Sound Forge, the file apparently 
reappears where it was in Reaper.
snip:
It's in (Options > Preferences) and the very last item is
where you setup Reaper to open a wave file in the wave editor
of your choice... I have Sony Sound Forge
setup to open wave file on double click or a right click (will pop up a 
menu) and
you can select open wav in audio editor.. yes Ctrl+Alt+E will do the same
snip.
Indigo L
Quote::
In Reaper v3.xx I could open a .wav file and edit it by double-clicking 
on the track.
It would open in Audition 3 and I could edit it as needed.
This doesn't work in v4, how do I select a track in Reaper 4 so it opens 
in Audition?
Sidebar question -- I use Audition for only a handful of things: change 
pitch, change
tempo, fade-in, fade-out, cut-copy-and-paste, save parts of .wav file to 
new wave
file, fairly simple stuff. Does Reaper 4 do all of these things as well 
as or better
than Adobe Audition? I would love to abandon AA and do all of my editing 
in Reaper.
thanks...
Nick Morris
08-19-2011, 11:50 AM
so abandon it, and do it all in reaper.
Nick Morris
08-19-2011, 11:51 AM
and yes it does all of these things
Veech
08-19-2011, 02:27 PM
and yes it does all of these things
ahh, but does it do them as well as AA?
Nick Morris
08-19-2011, 02:38 PM
as well if not better
alanofoz
08-19-2011, 03:33 PM
Ctrl+Alt+E
Johnnny-5
08-19-2011, 05:42 PM
@Veech, I don't believe Reaper has a built in wav editor. you must have 
had Reaper
3.X setup to open AA.. It's in (Options > Preferences) and the very last 
item is
where you setup Reaper to open a wave file in the wave editor
of your choice... Also I don't know anything about AA BUT I have Sony 
Sound Forge
setup to open wave file on double click or a right click (will pop up a 
menu) and
you can select open wav in audio editor.. yes Ctrl+Alt+E will do the 
same.. Reaper
can do alot of this but not quite as robust as a true wave editor such 
as AA and
Sound Forge.. Hope this helps.. :-)
-J-
Veech
08-19-2011, 09:45 PM
@Veech, I don't believe Reaper has a built in wav editor. you must have 
had Reaper
3.X setup to open AA.. It's in (Options > Preferences) and the very last 
item is
where you setup Reaper to open a wave file in the wave editor
of your choice... Also I don't know anything about AA BUT I have Sony 
Sound Forge
setup to open wave file on double click or a right click (will pop up a 
menu) and
you can select open wav in audio editor.. yes Ctrl+Alt+E will do the 
same.. Reaper
can do alot of this but not quite as robust as a true wave editor such 
as AA and
Sound Forge.. Hope this helps.. :-)
-J-
I don't recall setting v3.x to open AA, I think it must have done so by 
finding my
XP default setting. I will play around with Reaper's .wav editing 
function, maybe
it'll be good enough for my needs.
Thanks for your response!
bilsner
08-19-2011, 10:05 PM
I don't recall setting v3.x to open AA, I think it must have done so by 
finding my
XP default setting. I will play around with Reaper's .wav editing 
function, maybe
it'll be good enough for my needs.
Thanks for your response!
If you were fine using audition before (however it ended up being your 
editor) why
not just set it up again, it's just a few simple clicks my friend.
OPTIONS > PREFERENCES > EXTERNAL EDITORS (scroll to bottom to find this) 
 > ADD >
Use browse button to locate your audition .exe in program files > OK
That's it. Now to open audio item in audition (or whatever external 
editor you wish)
there are 2 ways (and yes they are different from reaper 3.x). You can 
either [CTRL/ALT/E]
which I do not recommend as it doesn't give an option to open a copy 
(found this
out just recently myself oops) or right click the audio item, select 
"open items
in editor" and choose "open item copies in audition" ... ofc you can 
open the original
in there as well if you wish.
You know the rest... edit, then save and your audio item appears back in 
the project.
HTH
Veech
08-19-2011, 10:19 PM
If you were fine using audition before (however it ended up being your 
editor) why
not just set it up again, it's just a few simple clicks my friend.
OPTIONS > PREFERENCES > EXTERNAL EDITORS (scroll to bottom to find this) 
 > ADD >
Use browse button to locate your audition .exe in program files > OK
That's it. Now to open audio item in audition (or whatever external 
editor you wish)
there are 2 ways (and yes they are different from reaper 3.x). You can 
either [CTRL/ALT/E]
which I do not recommend as it doesn't give an option to open a copy 
(found this
out just recently myself oops) or right click the audio item, select 
"open items
in editor" and choose "open item copies in audition" ... ofc you can 
open the original
in there as well if you wish.
You know the rest... edit, then save and your audio item appears back in 
the project.
HTH
That helps a lot, thank you. As good as AA is, I don't like it nearly as 
much as
Reaper. AA is a resource hog and is unstable. It will lock up and crash 
after 30
- 40 minutes which of course is very irritating. Reaper has never 
crashed on me,
it is so streamlined and efficient. I would love to say goodbye to AA 
but it is very
robust and does a lot of things really well. I just wish it were more 
stable.
I think it will depend on the quality of pitch and tempo shifting in 
Reaper vs AA.
If it is acceptable, then I'll put AA on the shelf. If not, then I'll 
follow your
steps to use AA as my default wave file editor.
Thanks again!
bilsner
08-20-2011, 12:01 AM
I'm fairly new to reaper and I am using an external editor to transpose 
audio by
semitones as I can't find a way to do it reaper without it stretching to 
retain the
original tempo... unless I do it by alt dragging the item in the arrange 
window.
This will produce a pitch shift with no stretching (if you deselect the 
stretch to
tempo in item properties but it's not exact so fairly useless if I want 
to transpose
a clip by a set amount of semitones. Frustratingly, the numeric option 
in item properties
still stretches the audio even with the stretch option deselected. I 
could probably
do without the external editor if there was a way to shift audio clips 
by set musical
amounts without the stretch.
If you know a way, let me know please *hope*
EricM
08-20-2011, 12:19 AM
I can't find a way to do it reaper without it stretching to retain the 
original tempo...
shift+9 & shift+0 are the default keys I think, otherwise go in
Actions > Action List, find actions "pitch item up (down) one semitone"
and remap it to your favorite keyboard shortcut.
e
bilsner
08-20-2011, 07:38 AM
shift+9 & shift+0 are the default keys I think, otherwise go in
Actions > Action List, find actions "pitch item up (down) one semitone"
and remap it to your favorite keyboard shortcut.
e
I'm afraid that doesn't work.... you change the pitch but the audio 
stays exactly
the same length and so must be stretching/compressing :(
xpander
08-20-2011, 11:14 AM
Change the pitch of an item, and let it stretch?
If you have not changed your shortcut keys;
Shift + 5 steps up in semitones
Shift + 4 steps down in semitones
Not working from the numpad, btw.
Or do like EricM suggested and go to Actions list, run the actions from 
there or
set them up how you'd like.
Actions > Action List, find actions "pitch item up (down) one semitone"
and remap it to your favorite keyboard shortcut.
bilsner
08-20-2011, 11:21 AM
Change the pitch of an item, and let it stretch?
If you have not changed your shortcut keys;
Shift + 5 steps up in semitones
Shift + 4 steps down in semitones
Not working from the numpad, btw.
Or do like EricM suggested and go to Actions list, run the actions from 
there or
set them up how you'd like.
yeah thx I have found it altho it's 5 and 6 not 4 and 5 :)
xpander
08-20-2011, 02:53 PM
Whoops sorry, right you are, shift + 5 & 6 it is for the semitones. Now 
who messed
my defaults... ;)
ChickenPie4tea
08-21-2011, 12:39 AM
I've never found an editor that cleans out background noise better than 
Audition.
I keep it for that alone. I have even tried Ozone and it wasnt as good 
as the built
in adobe tool.
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On 3/24/2012 7:39 AM, Kerry Hoath wrote:
> There is no known way to do this that Iam aware of.
> Audacity can do this and is also multi-track, 2.0 with enhanced
> accessibility has been released and is free and worth a look.
>
> regards, Kerry.
> On 24/03/2012 7:21 PM, david hindmarch wrote:
>> Can any one please help. I want to play the selected part of a wave
>> file in reaper just as you can do in sound forge and sonar.
>> There are a number of ways to select a portion of a wave file in
>> reaper but I don't know how to simply play the selected area of the
>> file using a key command. I know that Alt plus space bar will skip
>> over the selected material and that it is possible to hear the
>> selected material by pressing the set repeat key, but I only want to
>> hear the selected part of the file played once. If any one knows how
>> to do this could they direct me to the right key command.
>> Best wishes David.
>>
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