[RWP] Undo

[Chris Belle]

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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