[RWP] possibly my last question

Sun Oct 7 10:21:56 EDT 2012

Thanks, gianluca.
It's nice to know that the answer was right there in ReaAccess history, 
only we didn't bother to read it. Smile.
Indigo L

On 10/7/2012 3:44 AM, Gianluca Apollaro wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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