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

[James Teh]

In short:

First, when recording your takes, you can do it one of two ways:
1. Enable Options -> Record mode: time selection auto punch. For each 
new section you want to record, set a time selection accordingly.
2. Enable Options -> Record mode: auto-punch selected items. For each 
new section you want to record, make sure you have no items selected. 
After recording the first take, make sure you select that item so that 
subsequent takes will be added to that item.

to comp, you just select an item and use the Take: Switch items to 
next/previous take actions (bound to t and shift+t by default). If you 
like, you can split items at any point and use different takes for the 
new items. For example, let's say you recorded an entire verse in one 
shot, you found the best take overall, but you didn't like that take for 
one particular phrase. No problem: just split the item at that phrase 
and change the take for that phrase as described above.

In addition, you can rename and choose takes in the Item Properties dialog.

Jamie

On 18/04/2015 9:22 AM, theoreomonster--- via RWP wrote:
> Likewise Willing to give it  a try too. Either Jamie or scott care to write up a brief scenario of how you comp multiple takes down to one master take. This will probably help e wrap  my head around whats going on and figure out how to execute this in OS X land.
>
> Thanks,
>
>> On Apr 17, 2015, at 6:35 AM, Chris Belle via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> Also, this has always been accessible with ReaAccess. I'm not doing anything new here.
>>>
>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>> Oh my god, so we'd have bunches of stuff on a single track starting at different places, items and takes both.
>>>>
>>>> I think I'm better off making a separate track for everything and naming it.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe I'll like it better in reaper.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, choice is good.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
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