[Rwp] How to Select Exactly One Measure?

[Matej Golian]

Hi, Scott, thank you for the useful info and tips. I'm sure these
questions have already been asked and answered and so I'm very
grateful that you take the time to answer them again. It's really
great, I learn something new every day. :D

2015-02-08 19:50 GMT+01:00, Scott Chesworth via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>:
> Hi Matej,
>
> Yep, the forum was right, the correct value is 2.1.00. The reason it
> doesn't seem to be perfect is that ReaAccess is slightly inaccurate
> reporting percentages. This was one of the things on the list to fix
> before the developer disappeared, and hopefully OSARA will report
> timeline position with better accuracy. Also, a few thoughts that
> might help you to become more efficient. The jump dialogue is pretty
> smart, so as long as you've specified info in a format it recognizes,
> it'll fill in the rest of the info for you. So in this instance, if
> you're aiming for the start of a bar, you can save a few keystrokes by
> just typing 2.1, and the remaining .00 is assumed. You might also find
> it handy to know that Page Up/Page Down will skip back or forward
> precisely one bar respectively, and CTRL+Page Up/CTRL+Page down moves
> by individual beats within that bar. For selecting small section with
> nice rounded start/end times like this, sometimes it's easier/quicker
> not to have to bother using the number row..
>
> Hth
>
> Scott
>
> On 2/8/15, Matej Golian via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> me again, I have another question. I have posted it in the official
>> Reaper forums and I got an answer too, but it would be great if
>> someone could confirm it, because it does not seem to work that way.
>> Could be that I just did something wrong though.
>> Let's say I want to select an entire measure (forexample the first
>> one) and re-record it. Let's say that this measure has 4 beats. I
>> would want to use the Jump function to get exactly to the end of the
>> measure to select it in its entirety but nothing else. My question is:
>> What value should I enter into the textbox? Let's say that the second
>> measure contains perfectly recorded audio from start to finish and
>> re-recording only a single millisecond of it would be a catastrophe.
>> Which is the correct value - 1.4.99 or 2.1.00.
>> The answer I got was "2.1.00". Is this correct? Alternately, are there
>> any better ways of doing this? It seems to me that jumping to 2.1.00
>> includes 1 % of the first beat of the second measure in the selection,
>> but as I say, I can be wrong.
>> Many many thanks!
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