[Rwp] A recording Question.

[James Teh]

Maybe I'm missing something, but why does it matter that REAPER creates 
multiple items? You're just playing it back anyway, so why does it 
matter whether there's some "overwritten" content behind the most recent 
recording? That is, you can't hear it, so it's irrelevant for your purposes.

One issue I can think of is that you would hear the end of the previous 
recording if the most recent was shorter. (However, as I understand it, 
you'd also have this problem in Goldwave.) You can solve that by setting 
ridiculously large punch points and leaving them set that way for the 
entire session. That way, you'll always overwrite your previous 
recording. If you set things up so that a new recording "Splits existing 
items and creates new takes", each new recording will end up as a new 
take, but you can just ignore those.

Using the delete all items idea presented earlier, you could also create 
a custom action which does this every time you record so that you can 
have just one command which does it all.

Of course, the other issue you could be worried about is disk space. 
That is certainly a problem for you and I'm not even sure undo will 
solve that (unless you subsequently consolidate audio).

Jamie

On 16/02/2015 10:48 PM, Jim Noseworthy via RWP wrote:
> Hello:
>
> Thanks for the interest in the problem that I am having.  You are correct: I
> want to keep the timeline as a single item.
>
> In this case, I am using Reaper as a recorder to record Ham Radio logins as
> a net controler. I need to record each round of logins and then play them
> back in order to call in each individual. This is done many times throughout
> my time as net control.  Therefore, I need to access the same item
> constantly.
>
> I use my FW-1884 for the Control surface which permits me to operate the
> Transport functions without having Reaper in focus.  Except for the items
> issue, it works great.
>
> Thanks all over the place gang.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Scott
> Chesworth via RWP
> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2015 11:02 PM
> To: Reapers Without Peepers
> Subject: Re: [Rwp] A recording Question.
>
> Sure, there's a few punch choices to be found under that same options menu.
>  From what I can gather though, he's after a way to keep the timeline as a
> single item, and no punch mode will do that.
>
>
>
> On 2/16/15, John Schucker via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>> Really? Reaper has no overdub option, it's all making a new clip every
>> time? How do you set punch points to fix a mistake then? Because I
>> think that's what he wants, instead of making a new take, he wants it
>> to overwrite the existing take. Don't you pretty much have to do that
>> for punch recording?
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