[RWP] Folders

[Scott Chesworth]

Hey Jim,

I think the confusion is coming from where to hit Shift+Enter, and
also where you have to be to open and close folders. You only need to
Shift+Enter on the track that you want to actually be the top or title
of a folder, then Shift+Enter again a couple times until you hear
ReaAccess say "end of folder" on whichever you want to be the last
track in your folder. Everything in between those two points we'll be
placed into your new folder without you needing to toggle the setting
track by track. If you don't explicitly designate a track to be the
end of your folder, Reaper will pop everything from wherever your new
folder starts right down to the bottom of your track list into the
folder, and new tracks will be considered part of it as you add them
too. That's caught me out a few times.

Once you've got the tracks contained, opening and closing the folder
is as easy as hitting Enter on the track you'll designated as the top
or title of the folder. You'll hear three settings, "closed", "open",
and "small". When it's closed, you won't see any of the tracks within.
When it's open, you will. When it's small, I have no idea lol, it just
seems the same as the open setting to me. The important thing here is
that to open or close a folder, you can only press enter on the top
most track which is acting as the title of the folder. It doesn't work
to hit enter on any of the tracks within, or even the one designated
as the end of the folder unfortunately.

So yeah, I'm guessing from your description that you were trying to
create a folder containing tracks 2 3 and 4, but have 5 always
visible? To do that, you'd need to hit Shift+Enter on track one until
ReaAccess says "folder", go down to track 4 and do the same until you
hear "end of folder". Now, when you hit enter on track one, tracks 2 3
and 4 will become either visible or invisible depending on whether
it's set to open or closed, and muting soloing or volume adjustments
on track 1 will apply to tracks 2 3 and 4 as well like a bus. Track 5
will be visible the whole time.

Hope that clears things up?

Scott

On 6/18/13, Jim Snowbarger <Snowman at snowmanradio.com> wrote:
> Thanks for this description.  I had a play with this, just to see how it
> works, and am puzzled by what it did.
>
> I Made 5 tracks.  Pressed shift+enter on 2, 3 and 4.
> Track 5, not part of the folder, had a couple items on it.
>
> Now, go to track 2, and press enter twice.  It becomes a folder.  Now, up
> and down arrow only shows track one, and closed folder track 2, with no
> items.
> What the heck happened to track 5?  If I open the folder again with enter,
> track 5 is in the list again.
> But, track 5 is not part of the folder.  Pressing enter on track 5 says
> cant' close or open a track, so I believe it is not part of the folder.
> I just don't understand why it disappeared when I had 2 3 and 4 collapsed.
> Any ideas?
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex H." <linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com>
> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 4:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [RWP] Folders
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Using v4, it's pretty straightforward. Shift-enter will toggle a
>> track's type from a track to a folder. you specify the end of the
>> folder by going down to the track you want to be the last track in the
>> folder, and shift-enter until reaAccess says "end of folder." The
>> action in REAPER is called "track: cycle track folder state."
>>
>> If you want to collapse a folder, go to the folder track, and wack
>> enter until it's closed. Then you can arrow down without the rest of
>> the subtracks getting in the way.
>>
>> I love my folders personally. Group guitar/vocal tracks or drum bleeds
>> in them with their own separate processing, and then overall rounding
>> things off on the folder track.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On 6/16/13, TheOreoMonster <monkeypusher69 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Anyone here use folder or folder tracks in reaper. Any experiences? How
>>> accessible? Version 3 or Version 4?
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