[Rwp] Creating Items

[Scott Chesworth]

Separate projects works fine as a safety net, but you've still got to
go through the kind of unnecessary button bashing of saving those
separate projects as names you'll recognize when switching between
them. If I weren't racing against the clock with a job like this, I'd
like to think I'd have enough resolve to work a little more carefully
on this in a single project and improve my understanding/efficiency in
Reaper as a result. Practice makes perfect, even with OSARA helping
you to run faster, smell better etc. JMO, either way will get the job
done I guess, just thinking of the long game.

Scott

On 11/28/15, Snowman <snowman at snowmanradio.com> wrote:
> Ah,separate projects,  that's a good idea.  Keeps me from messing things up
>
> unintentionally.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Teh" <jamie at nvaccess.org>
> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 27, 2015 11:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rwp] Creating Items
>
>
>> It really shouldn't be much different in OSARA versus ReaAccess. One
>> difference I can think of is that ReaAccess unselects all items every time
>>
>> you move to a new track, which isn't what REAPER does by default (and
>> OSARA doesn't change that).
>>
>> If you want to avoid the potential pitfalls, though, why not just work on
>>
>> it in a separate project and cut the items between them? REAPER does allow
>>
>> multiple projects open at once. That way, it's closer to your SoundForge
>> workflow, only all within one app.
>>
>> Jamie
>>
>> On 28/11/2015 1:16 PM, Snowman 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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