[RWP] Undo

[Chris Belle]

VEry useful for trouble shooting but shouldbe able to tailor it.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 6:05 AM
Subject: Re: [RWP] Undo


> When you click on new to go to the custom actions dialog, to select 
> actions; you can place a checkmark on consolidate undo, which lumps all 
> undo moves related to that particular action; to undo them with a single 
> ctrl+Z.
> I suppose you could redefine any action as a custom action just to get the 
> advantage of that consolidate undo checkbox.
> It's enough to drive one off the deep end to back up through all those 
> undo moves.
> I haven't found it; but just to eliminate the select this and that would 
> help.
>
> On 6/2/2013 6:35 PM, Gordon Kent wrote:
>> Reaper treats undo the same way that sibelius does.  Every time you move 
>> the arrow keys in sibelius t o select a note or whatever, it goes in the 
>> undo list, really a drag I think.
>> Gord
>>
>> From: Chris Belle
>> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 2:05 AM
>> To: Reapers Without Peepers
>> Subject: Re: [RWP] Undo
>>
>> Yeh, reaper seems to take everything you do with it as an undo action.
>>
>> Well, I guess there are worse ways to waste time than playing with 
>> reaper, and we might actually get somewhere.
>>
>> I can atleast use it for certain things now,
>> that normalize to common gain feature will be handy for tracks which vary 
>> wildy in dynamic range, and where a compressor isn't desired.
>>
>> Or rather where a compressor used aggressively to level the audio would 
>> be too much for some parts and not enough for others.
>>
>> There's a feature in reaper called split dynamically, I'm not sure what 
>> that does, but maybe it makes a guess on where to split audio, ofcourse 
>> you can always do it by hand, but if it works well and makes inteligent 
>> guesses on how to split audio then using that normalize to common gain 
>> feature, you could really save time and not have to do too much to a 
>> track to say ride a vocal, or for pidcasts of varying amplitude.
>>
>> We have things like the levelator,
>> but it tries to compress and do a gate thing which you might not want 
>> sometimes, sometimes you just want bits of audio all normalized to a 
>> common peak,
>> and sonar doesn't have a feature like this other than to split each clip 
>> and normalize it separately which is tedious.
>>
>>
>>
>>    ----- Original Message -----
>>    From: Jim Snowbarger
>>    To: Reapers Without Peepers
>>    Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 11:30 PM
>>    Subject: [RWP] Undo
>>
>>    Hey, did you guys realize that Undo, control+z, in reaper simgply 
>> reverses the action of the last key you pressed, even if it did nothing 
>> to the project data?
>>    What is weird about that to me is, for example, use alt+upArrow a few 
>> times to increase the volume while transport is stopped.    Nothing got 
>> changed in the file, just a local setting.  The first control+z, just 
>> undoes the most recent alt+upArrow.
>>    I thought it just applyed to recordings, or file operations.
>>    Apparently Not so.   You can twiddle the track volume setting while 
>> stopped, using a sequence that involves control+z.  So, when I was trying 
>> to undo my automation recordings, I was confused.  I saw a track envelope 
>> item go bye, as I did control+z over and over, but I also saw lots of 
>> alt+upArrows, tons and tons of them, and I thought I had to undo all 
>> those two.  But, I now suspect that those were just getting recorded  in 
>> addition to the change that was actually recorded in the track.  And, all 
>> I really needed to undo was the track envelope event.
>>    Reaper keeps me busy just poking and prodding.  Who has time to be 
>> creative.  <grin>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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