[RWP] a couple questions

[Scott Chesworth]

It's not that you're using looping wrong at all man, just that we're
using it for different things. I don't do much electronic stuff
nowadays, so if I'm looping a portion of audio it's usually to get a
bunch of takes down without stopping, and that's about as deep as I've
gotten into it. To do that, you specify the start point of the loop
with Alt+[, the end point with Alt+], hit CTRL}R for repeat and you're
good to go. What you're talking about is item based looping, which is
actually a lot more useful, I just don't know the workflow to get it
going off the top of my head. If nobody gets an answer for you by the
time I get home tomorrow though I'll have a tinker and write out some
steps. If you want to experiment with it in the meantime, I think
you'd need to split the portion of audio you want to loop into an
item, then try extending the length in the item properties (Shift+F2).

On 11/26/14, Oriol Gómez <ogomez.s92 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, thanks very much for your answer man. :)
> How is looping supposed to be used then? I just want to for example,
> if I were to play a part of a song on guitar that needs to be put
> somewhere else later on, how could I do this? I assume this would be a
> loop.. or just copy paste.
>
> On 11/26/14, Scott Chesworth <scottchesworth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey Oriol,
>>
>> I'm not in front of Reaper right now, but off the top of my head, I
>> think copying and pasting based on selection the way you're doing it
>> applies across all tracks in the project by default. If you need it to
>> apply to just one track, try hitting Shift+A to select the item under
>> the cursor. Your screen reader will say something like "copied
>> portions of item" when you hit CTRL+C to copy it if you've got the
>> workflow right. Hitting the escape key will remove those start and end
>> points you specified for selection and allow you to start over. Your
>> screen reader should say "unselected" so you know it's been done. One
>> thing that might come in handy for you is the shortcut Shift+S, which
>> splits the selection you've made into an item. This way, if you need
>> to come back to that bit of audio later on in the project, it's
>> already split out for you based on the selection you made the first
>> time around, so  you'll save time not having to redefine those start
>> and end points etc. To navigate through the items on a given track,
>> use CTRL+Left or CTRL+Right arrows.
>>
>> I use looping differently to what you're trying to do, so gonna have
>> to let someone else walk you through that part.
>>
>> Hth
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> On 11/26/14, Oriol Gómez <ogomez.s92 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I have a couple questions regarding audio editing in reaper:
>>> Why can't I copy and paste audio? I sometimes try it, and I am able to
>>> choose the start and end time of the selection and then copy paste but
>>> how do I remove this selection and start over? Because I am only able
>>> to do it once.
>>> And, is this on all tracks or just on one track?
>>>
>>> SEcond.. How can I go about looping? I have no idea about how to set
>>> up a region for looping, choosing how many times I want to loop it
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
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