[RWP] Reaper Quick Start first time using.

Fri Feb 1 08:29:28 EST 2013

I can answer your first question, I think.
When you insert media into Reaper, it lands at the end of the tracks, so 
nothing happens when you press spacebar.
First press W or Home key to rewind; or jump to the beginning of the 
timeline, then press spacebar, and you should hear it play.

On 2/1/2013 8:12 AM, Matt Diemert wrote:
> Good morning all,
> This is my first time really delving in to reaper with rea access.
> Prior to now, I've recorded my work on an Olympus ls100, and moved it in to
> audacity or garage band to do editing mixing that sort of thing.
> So, this past week I decided to give reaper a shot since it seems to be such
> a robust product.
> First, I took a project that I had worked on in audacity so I knew how I
> wanted it to sound. I took the raw wave files from audacity and inserted
> them in to a new project with reaper.
> Here's where things got interesting.
> I opened reaper and under insert, selected media. I highlighted the seven
> files I wanted to insert, and when I pressed enter, reaper asked me if I
> wanted them as individual tracks. I chose yes, and they all imported in just
> fine.
> Now, I pressed space bar to play, and while jaws did state playing, nothing
> happened. With the jaws cursor I saw that something by the tracks said off
> line? SO I attempted to click this with the jaws cursor to see if doing so
> would create change. After doing so, I pressed space bar again, and the song
> began to play.
> My questions are, how in fact did the song begin to play? Was it something I
> did, or just sheer luck.
> In audacity, I was easily able to pan the tracks as needed however, it seems
> like when I panned in reaper, when I tabbed back over to the pan control,
> jaws reported centered. What am I doing wrong here.
> Lastly, How can I add affects to one individual track?
> I'd appreciate any help. I promise I'm not as much of a novice as I seem,
> but this one just felt over my head which was disappointing as I'm truly
> excited to try the product out.
> Thanks much guys.
> Regards:
> Matt D.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at reaaccess.com] On Behalf Of Indigo
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 7:35 PM
> To: Reapers Without Peepers
> Subject: Re: [RWP] Reaper Quick Start
>
> okay, You press the letter M mother to set a marker at whatever point in a
> track you want.You can set up to 10 markers per track.
> Press the 1 key on the top row of the qwerty keyboard to jump to marker 01,
> 2 to jump to marker 02, etcetera, and the zero key to jump to marker 10
>
> In training mode, I hear the letter C saying that it sets a marker near the
> cursor.
> I think you can use that when you are scrubbing with the left/right arrow
> keys and hear that you are near where you want the marker to be.
> The cursor moves along the track's time line as you scrub.
> I haven't tried C for that, try it and let us know if C places a marker
> close to where you sstop scrubbing.
> If you want to split the item at that point, press the letter s.
> To do this, first select the track by arrowing up/down to the track.
> Then select the item on that track with ctrl+shift+right arrow.
> Note that there could be more than 1 item on that track, but you will hear
> the item number announced.
> When you have selected the item you want; arrow to where you want to split
> that item, and hit S.
> You now have an item to the left of where you split, and the remainder of
> the item to the right of where you split.
> This is useful like if there's silence to delete, or other unwanted
> material.
> You can select either of the split items with ctrl+shif+right/left arrow,
> then cut it to clipboard with ctrl+X, then paste it onto another track if
> you want.
> Create a new track to paste an item onto with ctrl+T.
> I have set markers and split items, but haven't nudged markers yet, but
> think you can nudge a marker left or right to get it exactly where you want.
> Press F12 for learning mode, and check out comma and period, which I think
> nudge left or right.
> Comma says time selection nudge left, and period says time selection nudge
> right.
> The letter N nancy toggles the nudge set dialog for how much you want to
> nudge.
> After pressing N press your tab key to hear the various nudge increments.
> Somebody please correct or expand on this; as I have no experience in
> nudging markers.
> Indigo
> On 1/31/2013 4:28 PM, Rylan Vroom wrote:
>> Hello listers, so I've read through the reaper quickstart wiki and am
>> now trying to find out how I can better use ReaAccess. I discovered
>> that hitting shift f1 gave me a list of "mouse modifiers", but how can
>> you perform tasks by just using the ctrl, shift or alt keys on their
>> own? Or are they meant to be used with a mouse? If that's the case,
>> how do you use the mouse to perform tasks on a track if you can't see
>> it? I'm picking up reaper because it does one crutial thing JSonar
>> doesn't, allow access to a "clip view" wherein I can edit individual
>> tracks in a multitrack audio project. Am I correct in assuming that
>> reaper's word for clips is "items"? Also, when I was using goldwave
>> for single track audio editing, I would use the left and right
>> brackets to drop in start and end to a selection I wanted to
>> modify/add an effect to. How would I accomplish that in reaper? I've
>> noticed I can add a marker, but that doesn't seem to be the same
>> thing. I've discovered that my left and right arrow keys "scrub"
>> through a track and if I hold down the shift key I'm able to select
>> chunks of audio, but I can't figure out what to do with it once I've
>> selected it. Also, how can I select a section of a track while its
>> playing? While I'm on the topic of selecting things, my sighted radio
>> producer colleagues are able to take a huge file that might have 5
>> minutes worth of someone's voice (different intonations of a station's
>> call letters for example), import it into an audio track and only make
>> one small part of that track play as part of a final mixdown with
>> other tracks containing the background beat/explosion sounds/whatever.
>> The only way I can think of to do this is to delete anything and
>> everything on that master voice track save the small voice snippit
>> that I want. Now if I do this, will it kill my master wave file? Is
>> there a better way to go about it? I've found out that f12 triggers
>> "training mode", which tells me what the ReaAccess key bindings are
>> for a given press of the keyboard, but is there a list on line that
>> has a complete list somewhere? I've noticed the main reaaccess site is
>> down.
>>
>> On 1/30/13, Rylan Vroom <dj.sonr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thank you so much! I'll be reading that later today.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Jan 30, 2013, at 8:31 AM, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You'll need to adapt what you read in the Reaper Quick Start to the
>>>> ReaAccess equivalents of the moves for sighted users; but it's a
>>>> less intimidating guide than the huge Reaper manual.
>>>> http://wiki.cockos.com/wiki/index.php/ReaperQuickstart
>>>>
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