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

[Patrick Perdue]

Yep. If this continues not to work, try pressing control+up arrow once 
after touching a track, then making a split.

On 2/3/2015 1:32 PM, Brett via RWP wrote:
> 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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