[RWP] can anyone explain this behaviour?

[Jessica Brasseal]

Hi,

I repeated the steps you described, just to see what would happen. In
my case, upon pressing SHIFT+SPACE, track 2 was selected and touched,
and nothing happened to track 1. After pressing SHIFT+SPACE again,
track 1 and 2 both appeared as selected and touched. I admit I don't
know what touched means in this case. try pressing SHIFT+SPACE twice
before selecting your items. alternatively, SHIFT+Up or Down arrow
will select the track above or below your current position,
respectively. this should work as long as you are selecting continuous
tracks. From there, you will still need to select your items, but the
selction will apply to all selected tracks. i wish I could tell you
there is an easier way, but in my year and a half of using Reaper, I
have yet to find one. Hope this helps.

jessica

On 10/5/12, chris flatley <cflat at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Okay, so I'm still locked in this farce with copy paste. In order to try to
> get to the bottom of it, I abandoned imported audio, and instead recorded a
> couple of guitar tracks. I then select both tracks with shift space, then
> use shift page down to select the first 8 measures. Then I hit control C to
> copy. I make sure the cursor is at the start of measure 9, and hit control V
> to paste. It pastes only the audio from track 2. So I undo the paste, and
> try unselecting track 2, and then with just track 1 selected, I repeat the
> procedure with the same result; just the audio from track 2 is pasted, and
> it wasn't even selected. I undo again, make sure that I am on track 1, and
> do a control left arrow to select the item, and try the copy and paste
> again. The audio from track 2 is still being pasted but not track 1. I try
> unselecting track 1 aswell as track 2, still only track 2 pastes.
> Where's the logic? . The only difference I could see between the two tracks
> was that track 1 was saying touched and track 2 wasn't. Don't know what this
> means or how to get rid of it, or even if it matters. Searched the whole of
> the user manual for touched and got a few references to last touched items
> but it didn't really elaborate on what it meant or what it was useful for.
> Any ideas guys because I'm coming to the end of my tether. Cheers.
>