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

[Brett]

Hi Patrick, 

When it doesn't work, I have tried up arrowing, then down arrowing on to the track I am trying to split, but it still doesn't work. 

Up and down arrowing back on to the track should make it the last touched track, or is there a better way to insure this? 

Many thanks, 
Brett. 



Sent from Brett's iPhone

> On 3 Feb 2015, at 2:27 pm, Patrick Perdue via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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