[Rwp] Creating Items

[Scott Chesworth]

Yep, that'll do it. Worth noting that you should only have to hit
Shift+A before the first split to select the item that's under the
cursor at that point. From then onward, so long as you don't make any
changes to track selection, S should do the job. I say should because
this is Reaper after all, and she can be a crafty wench. Assuming you
hear "one item added" when you hit S, then it's only happened on the
desired track.

Btw, this is the same in OSARA, except that with OSARA, you've also
got the ability to jump to next and previous transient which you might
find useful if the source material is lengthy. Plus there are the
little known but definitely factual advantages that OSARA makes you
run faster, smell better, and will double the amount of pushups you
can do in 2 months or less or your money back.

Hth

Scott

On 11/28/15, Snowman <snowman at snowmanradio.com> wrote:
> Thanks guys.  So, the solutin is generall to suck the raw file in as a
> whole, grab an item and move it elsewheree.
>
> And, the thing that makes me a little nervous is what Patrick said about ,
> "taking care not to make item splits on
>> other tracks"
>
> So, I expect this is different for Osara versus ReAccess, which I'm still
> using at the moment.
> So, the way to make sure splis happen only on the current track? Up and down
>
> arrow first, to make sure only one track is selected?  Move to the desired
> location and press shift+A to select item under the cursor?
> Then I can split with s, and only spit  the item on the current track.
> That should do it.  No?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick Perdue" <patrick at pdaudio.net>
> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 27, 2015 6:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rwp] Creating Items
>
>
>> Remember that inserting a file on a track automatically creates an item.
>> Keeping this in mind, here is my sort of rambley workflow for this sort of
>>
>> thing.
>> Insert the source file you want to use on a track, then use ripple editing
>>
>> for just that track, taking care not to make item splits on other tracks,
>>
>> cut and split items as necessary with that track soloed, so I don't have
>> to care about other stuff on the timeline or on other tracks. Then, after
>>
>> making the splits necessary for the project, select and cut the items you
>>
>> want to use, then paste where they should go in context, killing off items
>>
>> you don't need. Depending on the situation, it sometimes makes sense to
>> glue items so that just the relevant portion(s) of audio are rendered out
>>
>> as separate takes, and the rest can be discarded. Sort of a hybrid of
>> destructive and non-destructive editing processes.
>>
>> Or, sometimes I just can't be bothered with all that, and go into
>> SoundForge.
>>
>> Aren't options wonderful?
>>
>> On 11/27/2015 6:15 PM, select all the relevant items and put them where
>> Snowman wrote:
>>> Hi Guys,
>>> Yep, this one is boring too.  I'm trying to figure out the best way for
>>> doing what I need to do here, and wonder if you can think of a better
>>> way to do this.
>>> The project is one where I have lots of source files sent to me by
>>> several individuals, and I need to take isolated clips from each file,
>>> and put them into a nice, coherent reaper time line.  So, I imagine one
>>> track per contributor, with items sparcely scattered along it, with the
>>> clips from that particular person.
>>> Question is how to do this.  The obvious is to htake sound forge, and
>>> go cut out the part I want, and save it to a small file.  Then, go
>>> import that file into Reaper at the desired position.
>>> But, is there a better way?  One that might obviate the need to cut and
>>> save the small file?
>>> I wondered if I can just create a blank audio item, and then go fill in
>>> the file name, and the start and length information.   But, I can't
>>> figure out how to do that.
>>> Of course, you can't do anything convenient like select data in Sound
>>> Forge, and go paste it into reaper.  That would be too easy.
>>> Anyway, I would appreciate your thoughts on the best way to do this.
>>> Thanks a  lot.
>>>
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