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

Sat Mar 24 22:27:52 EDT 2012

That did seem much easier, Patrick, and he admitted toggling loop 
onplayed the selected portion of the wave file, but only wanted to hear 
it once, for some reason. smile.
If it's good, I like to hear it again, If it's good, I like to hear it 
again, If it's good, I like to hear it again, If it's good, I like to 
hear it again,

If it's good, I like to hear it again,

On 3/24/2012 5:40 PM, Patrick Perdue wrote:
> Easier way to do it:
>
> Set repeat with control r, then make a selection in Reaper. As long as a time selection is active, it will loop that selection. There is probably an action that makes this more useful if you don't want a loop.
>
>
> On Mar 24, 2012, at 2:52 PM, indigo wrote:
>
>> 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.
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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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