[RWP] Listening to a selected area of a track

[TheOreoMonster]

Hey Scott, to follow up. The check box in question does work here. I forgot that when you make a change in preferences you have to hit apply then ok, if you just hit OK, changes don't seem to stick. So when i tried it previously it wasn't engaged. Now it is and i can delete the custom action i had for this task. 
On Oct 16, 2013, at 8:52 AM, Scott Chesworth <scottchesworth at gmail.com> wrote:

> How strange, that checkbox does the job here when making selections.
> Got a feeling I checked something else to make it happen, but for the
> life of me I can't think what at the moment.
> 
> Play skipping selection sounds mega useful. I'll definitely find a
> home for that.
> 
> Scott
> 
> On 10/16/13, TheOreoMonster <monkeypusher69 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Scott - I discovered that check box after posting my message last night, It
>> only appears to work however when you have a selection and you change its
>> start or end point and want to hear the playback at that point. It doesn't
>> seem to work when you initially set the start and end point of the
>> selection. I thought i could go undo my custom action, but it seems to still
>> be useful.
>> 
>> Jim - Yes go to start of time selection is the action i was referring to
>> here. Yes while there is a go to start of time selection hot key, you will
>> still have to hit spacebar to play after hitting Windows+leftbracket to go
>> to start of time selection. If you created a custom action  that chained go
>> to start of selection, and transport: Play, and say assigned it to
>> Windows+Spacebar, you can then go to the start of a selection and play it in
>> one  keystroke.
>> 

>> There is also a play skipping selection action you may want to have a hot
>> key assigned to which is handy for seeing how well to parts play together
>> after the selection is removed.
>> 
>> Though i think i will go assign hotkeys to go to start of selection and go
>> to end of selection  for those  times i may need to move to those points to
>> perform another action but not play from there. I believe the windows+left
>> and right brackets was a shortcut ReaAccess brought along with it.
>> On Oct 16, 2013, at 5:06 AM, Scott Chesworth <scottchesworth at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I had no idea that one existed Jim, cool!
>>> 
>>> Oreo, you might want to try checking the "Move edit cursor to start of
>>> time selection on time selection change" checkbox, it's the first one
>>> in Preferences -> Editing behaviour. Think it does kinda the same
>>> thing as your custom action, so it might free up that keystroke for
>>> another custom action.
>>> 
>>> Scott
>>> 
>>> On 10/16/13, Jim Snowbarger <Snowman at snowmanradio.com> wrote:
>>>> Actually, more about my now irrelevant previous post.
>>>> That action, go to start of time selection, seems to be the same thing
>>>> the
>>>> cookie man was alluding too.  I did not realize there is already a hot
>>>> key
>>>> assigned to that.
>>>> Windows+leftBracket jumps you to the start, and windows+rightBracket to
>>>> the
>>>> 
>>>> end of a selection.
>>>> Duh.  But, you probably already knew that.
>>>> 
>>>> I did not realize
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "TheOreoMonster" <monkeypusher69 at gmail.com>
>>>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 8:20 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [RWP] Listening to a selected area of a track
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> To make the play selection feature even more useful, i created a custom
>>>>> action  consisting of the following actions.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Go to start of selection
>>>>> Transport: Play
>>>>> 
>>>>> chain these together and assign to a short cut key to play a selection.
>>>>> If
>>>>> 
>>>>> you have the Stop at end of loop when repeat is disabled" check box
>>>>> checked, it will play the selection once. If you have repeat  enabled
>>>>> by
>>>>> pressing the letter R to toggle it on and off, it will play  the
>>>>> selection
>>>>> 
>>>>> looped.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So  here's a question. When trying to fine tune the end of a selection,
>>>>> has anyone had any luck with using the move to next zero crossing
>>>>> action?
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Aug 10, 2013, at 1:11 AM, Kevin Reeves <lists at kevinreeves.net>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Here's some things to try.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> First, Make sure that the "Stop at end of loop when repeat is
>>>>>> disabled"
>>>>>> check box is checked. This will force reaper to only play the selected
>>>>>> audio when a selection is present. This is the default soundforge
>>>>>> behavior.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Second, you can hold down shift and scrub with the right arrow, which
>>>>>> will allow you to make a selection.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm still the reaper newby, but hope this helps.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Kevin
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