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

[indigo]

This was a proposed solution to the question: How to play a selected 
part of a wave file in Reaper.
It's not saying you must close Reaper, then open Sound Forge to play a 
part of a wave file, but play the file without leaving Reaper.
The instructions let you select a part of a wave file, pop into Sound 
Forge without leaving reaper, play the file, then pop back into Reaper 
and continue working.

Press ctrl+P to go to (Options > Preferences) and the very last item is
 > where you setup Reaper to open a wave file in the wave editor
 > of your choice; like your 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.
Ctrl+Alt+E will do the same.
Indigo L


On 3/24/2012 12:41 PM, david hindmarch wrote:
> Yes, thanks I use sound forge but I also wanted to use reaper.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 2:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [RWP] Playing a selected part of a wave file.
>
>
> 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.
> vBulletin® v3.8.4, Copyright ©2000-2012, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
>
>
> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> RWP mailing list
>>> RWP at reaaccess.com
>>> http://reaaccess.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp_reaaccess.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> RWP mailing list
>> RWP at reaaccess.com
>> http://reaaccess.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp_reaaccess.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> RWP mailing list
> RWP at reaaccess.com
> http://reaaccess.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp_reaaccess.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> RWP mailing list
> RWP at reaaccess.com
> http://reaaccess.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp_reaaccess.com
>