[RWP] Reaper Quick Start first time using.

Indigo 33indigo at charter.net
Fri Feb 1 09:03:30 EST 2013 

Hi,
I put everything on its own track, to make it easy for me to comprehend 
what I have before me; so here's how I'd add effects onto 1 track.
I'd load the effects plug onto its own track.
You can select the audio track you want to add effects to with up/down 
arrows, then press F to go to the effects routing page, click on add 
which you find at your tab key, and load the effect.
I'm sure there are other methods to route the audio track through the 
effect, but I'd go back to track view, select the effect plug's track 
with up/down arrows, then press the letter I to bring up Reaper's IO dialog.
I'd add a return from the audio track I wanted the effects on, then exit 
back to track view with escape.
At the tab key, in that simple Track recording Options Dialog; I'd 
provide an output for the effects plug, so it can be heard, probably 
your sound card, and press enter to save the settings I just made.
Now, I should hear the selected audio track going through the effects plug.
If you want to tweak the effects plug's parameters, select its track 
with up/down arrows, then press F to return to the effects routing page.
Tab down and you should find various parameters of that effects plug, 
with edit boxes at the arrow keys.
If you don't find parameters, tab down to the parameters combo box, then 
press ctrl+down arrow, or maybe ctrl+page down to force the parameters 
list to appear in that combo box.
One of those tricks  usually works, and you'll be at the bottom of the 
parameters list.
Reaper is very good at displaying parameters, and you can usually find 
them all in a single list, in that combo box; also you find parameters 1 
by 1 by tabbing in the effects routing page

I don't fully understand how to use it yet, but I know that, with a 
synth, if you click on Param at your tab key, either with enter, or by 
routing to your numberPad and left clicking on Param there; you reveal a 
list of actions you can apply to parameters.
That's where you find Midi Learn, if you have a control surface, also 
more actions, plus there's a complete list of the plug's parameters there.

Please feel free, anyone, to augment or correct this, and provide your 
favorite method.
Regards,
Indigo

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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