[Rwp] A Basic Question about Ripple Editing

[theoreomonster at reaperaccess.com]

The easier way to do what you want to do is to make a selection for 2 seconds and then use the insert empty space at time selection option found under the insert menu. 
> On Oct 11, 2015, at 5:40 PM, Matej Golian via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> 
> Ok,
> I split the first item exactly at 2 seconds and after deleting the 2nd
> resulting item it's exactly as I want it to be, but I still don't
> understand why it isn't enough to just change the length of the item
> in the properties dialogue.
> 
> 2015-10-11 22:21 GMT+02:00, Matej Golian <matej.golian at gmail.com>:
>> Hello,
>> once again I would be very grateful if you could help me out. I
>> haven't read the entire manual yet, but I have watched a number of
>> tutorials and apparently I don't understand how ripple editing works.
>> Or maybe I just don't know enough about items yet. Anyhow, this is
>> what I'm trying to do. It's very simple.
>> I basically just want to insert an empty item before all the other
>> items on a particular track. I turn ripple editing on, go to the
>> begining of the project and insert a new empty item. It gets inserted
>> right at the begining of the track and it pushes all the other items
>> to the right. So that part's fine. I than select the newly inserted
>> item and I set its length to 2 seconds in the item properties. I
>> thought that all the other items would just move back to the left
>> after that, but they stay just where they were before I changed the
>> length of the first item. What am I missing here?
>> Many thanks.
>> 
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