[RWP] Folders

[Alex H.]

Couldn't have put it better myself.

On 6/18/13, Scott Chesworth <scottchesworth at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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