[RWP] Listening to a selected area of a track

[Jim Snowbarger]

Hello Crystal,
Yep,  I feel your pain.  It's not like sound forge, for sure.
But, here is one thing that does work.

Position your cursor a little way ahead of the point where you want your 
selection to end.
Start playback, and strike control+space as close as possible to the point 
where the selection should end.  Be sure to use control+space, not just 
space by itself.Playback will pause.
Press alt+shift+rightBracket to mark the end of the selection.
Now, use page up, or whatever means to back up to a point just prior to 
where you want the selection to start.
Start playback again, and strike control+space to pause at the desired start 
point.  Playback will pause.
Pressalt+shift+LeftBrack to mark the start point.  Now you have a time 
selection established.
Pressing space bar will now just play the selection.
And, there are keys, that I can't recall justn ow, for nudging the left and 
right ends of the selection, in case you didn't get them just right.
HTH
Sure,  you're welcome.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Crystal Dennis" <valkyriecelesyt at gmail.com>
To: <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 7:32 PM
Subject: [RWP] Listening to a selected area of a track


> It has been a constant issue of mine that I cannot move around on a
> vocal track on Reaper as I please, to the point where I just export
> and use another mixer to do so and record on Reaper.  But I really
> would like to use Reaper fully cuz it really does sound like a great
> program, so my question is...is there anyway to listen to a section
> you've selected on a track?  Whenever I hit Control+left arrow or
> right arrow it says a percentage is selected, but when I go to listen
> it starts the track from the beginning and that doesn't really help me
> when I am trying to edit a certain section of a track...is there
> anyway to listen to a track while you're editing, and fast
> forward/rewind through it while selecting?  or is that really just
> guess work.  I have the hardest time editing with Reaper sadly.
>
> So I guess this is two questions:  Can you playback the track and
> select at the same time, and can you play a section you've selected by
> itself?
>
> Thanks,
> Crystal
>
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