[Rwp] [RWP] Silencing audio and a synth VST question

[Scott Chesworth]

Select those bits of audio you want to silence either by specifying
the beginning and end of selection or splitting them into items.
Before you hit delete though, you'll want to make sure that ripple
editing is switched off by hitting Alt+P to cycle through the ripple
editing modes. When it's set to off, removing that audio shouldn't
automatically adjust the position on the timeline of anything else on
that track.

Hard to know for sure without specific names of synths, but my best
guess would be that the silent ones don't load a patch, preset, sound,
or whatever you want to call it by default. You might be able to pick
a sound yourself in the fx window, but if the native interface of the
synth is inaccessible (sadly many of them are) then you're probably
out of luck.

Hth

Scott

On 2/2/15, Crystal Dennis via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> Hello!  I have two questions so instead of sticking them in two
> emails, I figured I'd just stick them both in here ;)
>
> I just finally started to figure out reaper - I've had it for a long
> time, but something just clicked yesterday I suppose and I've been
> navigating/figureing it out all last night lol.  But one thing I
> haven't been able to figure out is - how do you silence audio at the
> beginning/end of a track?  I want to be able to just select that
> segment and silence it.  In audacity, there was a simple keystroke, so
> I'm wondering if there is in reaper?  If not, then how do you do it
> without messing up the timing of the track you're working with?
>
>
> Also - Another question, pardon my synth noob-ness!  But I have some
> synths that work right out of the box in reaper, and some that don't.
> I'm wondering if anyone knows why that would be?  I load them on the
> track and try to play them, and nothing happens, and I've never been
> able to figure out why.
>
> Thank you in advance for the help!
>
> Crystal
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