[Rwp] Creating Items

Sat Nov 28 19:17:28 EST 2015

On 11/28/2015 6:31 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
> 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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