[RWP] Issues with adding effects and selection

[Indigo]

Thanks, Jim; I'll need to check on the cursor position when shift+A 
selects both items on a track.
Thanks,
Indi

On 3/5/2013 11:09 PM, Jim Snowbarger wrote:
> About shift A selecting both items, might your cursor be positioned
> exactly at the split point when you do that?  If you use left or right
> arrow to scrub slightly one way or the other, maybe it will then just
> select that single item.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 9:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [RWP] Issues with adding effects and selection
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>> I have no problems editing most items now that I realize I always need
>> to select the particular item before editing it, like nudging it left
>> or right,  setting its length, etcetera.
>> There is a dialog that lets you set how much to nudge, the nudge
>> increment, I think it's called.
>> I sometimes do have a problem with selecting just the particular item
>> I want to delete, after I split an item into item 1 and item 2.
>> ctrl+right arrow seems to want to select 2 items, so I need to jockey
>> back and forth a bit until I hear 1 item selected, and it's the one I
>> want to delete.
>> shift+a, however always seems to select both items, and I can't get
>> just one split item selected with shift+A.
>> I'm not quite sure what shift+A is actually useful for.
>>
>>
>> as for a plug's gneric interface, I use only the native interface, I
>> don't believe I can find buttons to change or load presets from the
>> generic interface.
>> I know generic interface is said to lower cPU load, but I can't use
>> what I've learned about certain plug's native interfaces.
>> Thanks,
>> Indi
>>
>> On 3/5/2013 6:40 PM, Patrick Perdue wrote:
>>> Select an item on the track by first selecting the track, then
>>> pressing control left=right (if you want to only move a single item)
>>> or control+shift+left/right to select from your cursor to as many
>>> items on the track as you need. Check your ripple editing mode with
>>> "p," use alt+p to change to the mode that best works for what you're
>>> doing. You can't use item specific editing commands if you have only
>>> selected a track without having selected at least one item on one
>>> track.
>>>
>>> As for editing effects, which plugins are you using? If you don't
>>> switch to the "generic" mode, (can't remember how to do that at the
>>> moment,) the main effects window, even with some of the plugins that
>>> come with Reaper, can look a bit strange. Try also using the
>>> ReaAccess specific shift+p to get to an effect's exposed automatable
>>> parameters and change values there to see what happens. You don't
>>> often get real-world values, but I've found this to be the fastest
>>> way to get to things in many cases, especially with plugins that have
>>> inaccessible UI's.
>>>
>>> On 3/5/2013 6:32 PM, Crystal Dennis wrote:
>>>> I've been having this reoccuring issue with Reaper, so I hope
>>>> someone can help!
>>>>
>>>> When I select a track to edit or move, it doesn't move at all.
>>>> I've been trying to nudge to the left or right, and the track just
>>>> stays in the same spot.  I've been playing my music while doing
>>>> this, and I'm not sure if that's a factor?  I also can't figure out
>>>> how adding effects work:  I select a file, then go to the effects
>>>> window while the track is playing and mess with the DB values, and
>>>> nothing happens. Right now I've just been exporting to Gold wave to
>>>> add effects.
>>>>
>>>> I also have another question:  Whenever I go to the help menu and
>>>> click on Ray access, it says my Ray access scripts are disabled and
>>>> I need to install a Python API, is that necessary to run Reaper and
>>>> is this why I keep on having so many issues with it?
>>>>
>>>> Please help!  And thank you :) Crystal
>>>>
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