[RWP] a few audio edit questions if possible

[Indigo]

The shortcut to split a single item on a track is the letter S.
  select the track with up/down arrows; select the track's item with 
ctrl+shift+right arrow; then arrow left or right or scrub to where you 
want the split; then press S
You get 2 items; the first with material to the left of the split point 
and the second item with the remainder of the material to the end.

I don't know the shortcut to split all items.
As for asio4all to record with multiple USB devices; or a soundcard and 
USB device both running on asio4all's WDM drivers; I couldn't get it to 
work in Reaper.
The audio buffer was set to 512 samples, already huge compared to the 64 
samples i run for the soundcard on its own asio driver.
If you could use Sonar, you could dispense with asio4all, and just 
assign your soundcard and devices to use Sonar's WDM drivers.
My problem comes from the soundcard needing its own asio driver, and the 
USB device would also like to share that asio driver, but asio can't run 
2 devices simultaneously, and direct sound for soundcard and USB device 
gives huge latency.
Maybe the solution lies somewhere in asio4all, but I couldn't get it to 
help me.


As for adding an equalizer and compresser to a track, yesterday I 
inserted an MP3 file in Reaper's insert menu; insert media.
Then I made sure to arrow to that mp3 track to select it; then pressed 
F; and was immediately in the load effects dialog.
I tabbed and arrowed to the Reaper folder with ReaEQ; one of Reaper's 
included equalizers.
Press enter on it and it loads.
Then I tabbed to ReaEQ's high shelf band, tabbed down to an edit box; 
then arrowed down from 0db to minus 40db, to make sure the equalization 
could easily be heard.
Then I pressed escape to return to track view, pressed w to rewind the 
mp3 track, then pressed spacebar to play it.
The previously very bright mp3 was now very soft and muffled, going 
through the equalizer.
Reaper placed the equalizer on the same track as the MP3, no other key 
presses required to hook it up to the mp3 track.
To add the compresser, I'm sure you could again get onto the MP3 track; 
press f, and you would be in Reaper's effects routing page.
Press add to add another effect, tab and arrow to Reaper's folder for 
effects, VST; arrow to the compresser; press enter on it;  and it should 
also be added to the MP3 track.
Same as the equalizer, after loading the compresser; tab to its 
parameters, and look for edit boxes at your arrow keys to tweak the 
compresser.

As for speeding up scrubbing, you need to zoom out, maybe it is in the 
view menu somewhere.
Zoom in for slower scrubbing, zoom out to cover more time line with the 
scrub
Press F12 for training mode, and maybe there is a zoom in and zoom out 
shortcut there.

Press F12 again to exit from training mode.
Indigo
On 2/2/2013 2:13 AM, Justin Thornton wrote:
> hi
> I understand how to use reaper for basic multitrack recording but have some audio editing questions
> 1. where can I find the short cut to split items across all tracks to change it to just split items on the current track I'm working on?
> 2. what is the best way to split an item and cut a portion e.g silence from a track?
> 3. how if possible can i speed up the scrubbing with the arrow keys?
> 4. what is the best way to use a compressor and reverb for starters?
> 5. using asio for all, I have trouble when trying to connect to USB audio devices to use multiple inputs for multitrack live recording.
> Can this be fixed somehow tried adjusting the buffer output.
> thanks for reading and taking the time to answer my questions.
> take care JT
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