[RWP] possibly my last question

Sat Oct 6 22:08:49 EDT 2012

Actually, there's no need to glue all the track items in order to make it easy to select everything in the project. Found you can just choose select all from the edit menu, and it slects all items in the project. So if you wanted to copy and paste a portion of all tracks, you can just choose select all from the edit menu, and then highlight the portion to copy. Don't know why, but control A says cannot select all, but the edit menu version does work.

From: cflat at hotmail.co.uk
To: rwp at reaaccess.com
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 02:26:07 +0100
Subject: Re: [RWP] possibly my last question

The method I find works for selecting  copying and pasting a portion of several tracks at once is as follows:
1. Glue the items in the tracks, so that you have just one item per track instead of several.
2. with cursor at start of track 1, control shift right arrow to select track one's item.
3. Press shift down arrow to track 2, and then control shift right arrow to select track two's item while keeping track one's selected. Do this for as many tracks as required.
4. Move cursor to start of portion to be copied, and then hold down shift and pres page down or control page down or whatever to select the measures, beats etc that you wish to copy.
5. Hit control C, move cursor to position you wish to paste, and hit control v. Bingo! It works. And all inside a week, grin. 

> Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 18:56:20 -0400
> From: 33indigo at charter.net
> To: rwp at reaaccess.com
> Subject: Re: [RWP] possibly my last question
> 
> Touch might mean last touched track, at least that is the only reference 
> to touch that I've encountered.
> 
> 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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