[RWP] Best way to work with Reaper

[Crystal Dennis]

Thank you Indigo!  That helped So so so much :)  The copy and pasting
part is what I was  missing.  The recording guide helps too!  I am
going to try this as soon as I have free recording time.

Another question though:  If you want to add effects or lower/raise
the volume of the vocal or karaoke track, would you do that on the
track before you copy/pasted it to the other track?  And how do you
access the effects in general.  I've been having trouble with that.
I hope that made sense.

Crystal

On 2/27/13, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
> Moving tracks around is meant to be easy in Reaper, just like using a
> word processer, with standard copy, cut and paste shortcuts.
> When you import a track, do you want it to begin at 000, or somewhere
> else on a particular track's timeline?
> If you want to string imported tracks along a timeline, one after the
> other, you can import them onto their own track.
> Then arrow to the just imported track with your up down arrows; then
> select the imported track's item with shift+A; then press ctrl+C charlie
> to cut it to the Windows clipboard.
> Then arrow up or down to the track where you want to paste the imported
> track.
> ; arrow left or right to the place on the timeline you want the imported
> track to begin; , and press ctrl+V victor to paste it onto that track;
> exactly where the cursor is located when you paste
> Remember, you always need to select a track by arrowing to it, and you
> also need to select that track's item with shift+A; then cut or copy
> that item to the clipboard, then arrow up down to the destination track;
> then left right arrow to the destination location; then paste the item
> at that point.
>
>
> Just in case, you learn to love Reaper, and prefer to record on it; here
> are the basic instructions I just provided for my son for simple vocal
> recording:
>
> Insert a track for vocal recording with ctrl+T tom.
> You select a track by arrowing up or down to it.
> Arrow to track 1.
>   With a microphone in your preAmp; tab down to arm for recording,
> select on with your spacebar; then press enter to save your recording
> settings; which are specific for that selected track.
> You will be returned to track view after saving track settings.
> Press the letter R and recording begins.
> Press R again; or press your spacebar to stop recording.
> Press W to rewind to beginning of the track, or you can rewind with the
> home key.
> Press the spacebar to play your recording.
>
> Now, if you want to make a second track, or more after that, always
> arrow up to the previously recorded track; ; to select it.
> , Then tab down to arm for recording; and select off with your spacebar.
> Then press enter to save that track's recording settings; and you are
> return to track view.
> Then arm the next track you want to record  with the same method you
> used for the previously recorded track.
> If you forget to disarm the previously recorded track, you will record
> over the material you just recorded on the previously recorded track.
> All these tracks will begin at 000, the beginning of the first measure,
> or the beginning of the recording time, and will be perfectly aligned
> with each other.
> Hope this helps,
> Indi
>
> On 2/27/2013 8:15 PM, Crystal Dennis wrote:
>> This may be a stupid question, but everytime I've tried to play with
>> Reaper, I import tracks into the program and try to move them around
>> with the controls (with no success).  I've been recording in another
>> program, then trying to line up my tracks in Reaper, which is my only
>> multi-track mixer.  I was just wondering, since I am fairly new to
>> mixing the multi-track way, should I just try recording in Reaper with
>> my track playing instead  of importing?  Would that be easier for a
>> Reaper newbie to play with, or am I just not using Reaper right in the
>> first place and should startsomewhere else.  I feel like I'm missing
>> something major in terms of multi-track mixing, because everytime I
>> try to do something small like select a track and move it nothing
>> happens.
>>
>> Any help with any of these issues would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Crystal
>>
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