[RWP] A workflow for fake automating groups of tracks or folders

[Patrick Perdue]

And that works most of the time, except lately, I've noticed that, completely at random, Reaper has decided to sometimes not crossfade items anymore, when they overlap. It doesn't happen all the time, and sometimes, the zoom ratio seems to really matter. Haven't quite pinned this down yet, but every time it happens, I wish real automation worked better than it does for us.
Oh, and that's only good for one track/item at a time, otherwise, the entire thing gets really messy.
Short of rendering out "stems" of folders and using some fake tracks... So, yeah, back to that thing where we need real automation that works...

On Oct 1, 2014, at 9:20 PM, Derek Lane <derek at pdaudio.net> wrote:

> The only way I know would be to add effects to items, then grow and shrink them such that you crossfade in and out of each to produce changes of effects, volume, pan etc.
> On 10/1/2014 6:10 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
>> Chaps,
>> 
>> Today, I've been mixing a song with a lot of backing vocals. No
>> really, a lot of them. As I approached my fourth hour of slicing and
>> dicing to tidy up the raw tracks, I found myself wondering why on
>> Earth I don't have a workflow for fake automation on folders. Does
>> anybody else?
>> 
>> So far, I've tried inserting a blank item of the full length of the
>> song onto the track that's designated as a folder in the hope that I
>> could slice that up or apply effects to only certain items and have it
>> apply to everything being routed through that track, but nope, Reaper
>> temporarily forgets I'm dealing with a folder. Same unfortunate
>> behaviour applies to an item which isn't empty, but contains a wave
>> file that's as close to silence as I could get, so it's not the item
>> being empty that's causing the issue, Reaper is just forgetful lol.
>> 
>> Does anyone have a method that works?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance
>> 
>> Scott
>> 
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