[RWP] Reaper Quick Start

[Rylan Vroom]

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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