[RWP] possibly my last question

Indigo 33indigo at charter.net
Sun Oct 7 09:50:33 EDT 2012 

You know, I've noticed times in other programs when ctrl+a select all 
doesn't work, but hitting enter on select all in the edit menu works.
On 10/6/2012 10:08 PM, chris flatley wrote:
> 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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