[RWP] possibly my last question

[Indigo]

An old Cockos Reaper forum suggested unchecked "mouse clicking on 
vol/pan in preferences, which made selection of multiple trax possible.
Of course, they were talking mouse clicks, but it's worth a try.

On 10/6/2012 6:03 PM, Jim Snowbarger wrote:
> Ah, possibly his last, I detect inaccessibility disphoria.
> I think this multiselect mode is part of the mystery.
> I don't have time a t the moment to poke further, and I don't use reaper
> enough to get to be expert.
> But, the behavior is quite different when multiselect mode is on. What's
> bugging me at the moment is that I don't know how to turn it off, once
> it is on.
> So, I can't quite characterize the exact behavior between the two modes.
> Shift+space seems to put you in that mode. It doesn't select the current
> track.
> But, it puts you in a mode where you can select non-contiguous tracks.
> Arrowing to a track when multiselect mode is on doesn't select that
> track. You have to press shift+space to select it. And, as you arrow up
> and down, you should hear the word, selected, when you find a track that
> is selected. Press shift+space to togggle the selection.
> However, when mutiselect mode is not on, I think you can do the
> shift+downArrow thing to select more contiguous tracks. But, if you up
> and down arrow in that normal mode, you will discard all track selection
> except the currently focused track. Up and down arrowing in multiselect
> mode does not unselect anything by itself.
> I dont' know what touched means, except that I've been occasionally told
> that I'm touched. I didn't know what that meant either.
> So guys, how do you turn multi-select mode off?
> This m
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* chris flatley <mailto:cflat at hotmail.co.uk>
>     *To:* rwp at reaaccess.com <mailto:rwp at reaaccess.com>
>     *Sent:* Friday, October 05, 2012 8:24 PM
>     *Subject:* [RWP] possibly my last question
>
>     Hi.
>     Has anyone else experienced inconsistent and unpredictable behaviour
>     in Reaper? I can't get anything done re copy paste, or learn from my
>     mistakes because it doesn't behave the same way twice in a row.
>     Normally this basic editing function takes 5 minutes to learn in
>     other audio editing progs, yet I haven't been able to get past it in
>     days using reaper. Sometimes it will select items using control
>     right arrow, or control shift right arrow for multiple selection,
>     and sometimes it wont, and I have no idea what's changed. Whether or
>     not the track itself is selected doesn't make a difference. I'll be
>     selecting items to copy and paste with no problems, then without
>     warning it'll stop selecting them and make it impossible to copy
>     anything. While training mode is on, pressing shift down arrow says
>     something like next track while keeping previous tracks selected,
>     but it doesn't work, if I start at track 1 and press shift down
>     arrow, all I get is a no entry thunk, and so I have to down arrow
>     and then shift space everything.
>     Sometimes after pressing shift space it says something like multi
>     selection mode on, and sometimes it doesn't, and I have no idea what
>     that means, or what I did differently. Even if I could get it to
>     behave consistently for copy paste, I imagine it would be
>     infuriating to have to select one item at a time, one track at a
>     time for 10 tracks or more with punch in overdubs etc. Sounds like a
>     nightmare scenario to me. If it were just guitar, it wouldn't be
>     such a big deal because I could pretty much play in one take with
>     just a few punched overdubs maybe, but keyboard stuff, I have to
>     cheat by quantizing, copying an pasting.
>     Hell knows what reaper's like for more complex functions. Doubt I'll
>     ever get to find out. And this is what I'm curious about, is it just
>     me that finds reaper counterintuitive and super frustrating? Aside
>     from just hitting record and doing everything in a single take, I
>     can't see how this program could be efficient enough to make
>     recording a smooth experience.
>     Apologies for the whinge, and I really do appreciate the help I've
>     been given. I don't regret giving cockos 38 quid of my hard earned,
>     but I think it's back to Sonar for me.
>
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