[Rwp] Creating Items

[Snowman]

<grin>  yes, I'm coming. I'm coming...
(to Osara)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Chesworth" <scottchesworth at gmail.com>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Friday, November 27, 2015 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Rwp] Creating Items


> 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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