[Rwp] With OSARA, how to manage volume / pan of items?

[Chris Belle]

Cool beans, will try it.


On 4/17/2015 4:24 AM, James Teh via RWP wrote:
> Well, let's simplify. Each item is a section of time. Each item can have multiple takes. Each take is one option for audio in that section. That is, takes are always the same length; they are bounded by the item. So, it's not so confusing after all.
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> Also, this has always been accessible with ReaAccess. I'm not doing anything new here.
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> Finally, as I said, if you prefer tracks, that's fine. I just disagree that they're less efficient. Understood well, takes have the potential to be many times more efficient. I've only been using REAPER for a few months, but takes are one of the main reasons I'm switching. I had to manage takes with tracks in my last project. Never again; far too time consuming and error prone.
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>> On 17 Apr 2015, at 6:48 pm, Chris Belle via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
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>> Oh my god, so we'd have bunches of stuff on a single track starting at different places, items and takes both.
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>> I think I'm better off making a separate track for everything and naming it.
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>> I usually can get it right in a few,
>> and then take the best of what I got, but I know where it is,
>> and then I end up just copying and pasting what I want to anothe track and cleaning up.
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>> I guess different strokes for different folks,
>> but
>> I got used to doing it this way because getting to layers in sonar was such a pain I never bothered.
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>> Maybe I'll like it better in reaper.
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>> Anyway, choice is good.
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>>> On 4/16/2015 10:09 PM, James Teh via RWP wrote:
>>>> On 17/04/2015 12:39 PM, Jim Snowbarger via RWP wrote:
>>>> If takes are  manageable, and I haven't learned to do it yet, then it's
>>>> definitely the way to go.  I am the master or re-take, and mastery of takes
>>>> is something I really need to acquire.  Truly talented people don't have to
>>>> do this.  But, I do.
>>> Join the club. :) In short, you move to an item and switch between takes with t and shift+t. Obviously, you'll probably want to split items at various points.
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>>>> to do this, do you first have to set punch in and punch out points, so that
>>>> all takes use the same exact segment along the time line?My problem is
>>>> that I get tons of item fragments lying around because my start and stop
>>>> points for each take are ramdomly different from one another.
>>> Right. The default recording mode in REAPER is "Splits existing items and creates new takes", so it'll create new items wherever the new recording doesn't line up with previous ones.
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>>>> What's the best way to do that?
>>> One way is to set Options -> Record mode: time selection auto punch, then set a time selection covering the area you want to record. There is also Options -> Record mode: auto-punch selected items, which I assume just records the area of the selected item, though I'm not certain.
>>>
>>> Jamie
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