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

[Patrick Perdue]

Do you have a track selected before making a split? Remember, everything 
is context sensitive.
If you last worked on the timeline, and no specific track has been 
touched, this could happen.

On 2/2/2015 10:04 PM, Brett via RWP wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am I doing something wrong here, or 'others seeing this as well.
>
> When I make a split on a track, all goes as expected, but if Iattempt to make another about half of the time I get the message "0 items added". Any ideas on why this occurs? I am probably doing something wrong, but can't for the life of me figure out what it may be.
>
> I am using the latest reaper 64bit on Windows 7 64bit with NVDA,  if that matters.
>
> Many thank's,
> Brett.
>
>
> Sent from Brett's iPhone
>
>> On 3 Feb 2015, at 9:33 am, Scott Chesworth via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>
>> S makes a single split where you currently are. Shift+S splits
>> according to the selection, so if you've marked the beginning and end
>> of your selection already, you can create an item between those two
>> points with a single keystroke. Does that make sense?
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>> On 2/2/15, Crystal Dennis via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>> I'm selecting audio and for some reason it isn't splitting - the
>>> keystroke is just S for splitting, correct?  or is it shift S.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Crystal
>>>
>>>> On 2/2/15, Scott Chesworth via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>> 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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