[RWP] possibly my last question

Sun Oct 7 03:44:51 EDT 2012

Hi Derek and everyone,
I would like to share with everyone a usefull document to read to review 
some rea-access commands. In the reaper folder there is a file called 
ReaAccessHistoryEnglish.txt in which you can find the shift+esc command 
with a description: here's how it's written
- Stop multiselection and unselect all - Shift+Escape;
Hope that helps
Best regards,
gianluca from Italy
SkypeID: gianluca8815
Il 07/10/2012 06:39, Derek Lane ha scritto:
> Press shift+escape to exit multiselection mode. It took lots of random 
> guesses Before I stumbled on to that particular combination
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> On Oct 6, 2012, at 6:03 PM, "Jim Snowbarger" <Snowman at SnowmanRadio.com 
> <mailto:Snowman at SnowmanRadio.com>> 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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