[Rwp] Cutting and pasting

[Snowman]

So, I guess this would mean you need to make your time selection into an 
item.  And, I think there is an edit menu command  to do that.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Teh via RWP" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
Cc: "James Teh" <jamie at nvaccess.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Rwp] Cutting and pasting


>I don't think there is a way to cut a time selection as you're suggesting. 
>You can remove it because it completely removes that block of time from the 
>project. However, you can't cut it because I guess you can't paste a block 
>of time as such. What you can do is cut the items within that time 
>selection.
>
> The reason you're cutting the entire track is because that command 
> determines what to cut based on the focus. I'm guessing you had a track 
> focused at the time, so it chooses to cut tracks. If you had an item 
> focused, it would choose to cut items instead.
>
> Jamie
>
> On 11/09/2015 3:14 AM, onlineeagle via RWP wrote:
>> OK, so I’m practising with Reaper. I’ve managed to make a selection using 
>> al shift and left/right bracket, then press the delete key to delete that 
>> selection. And it works perfectly. But I can’t get the same result with 
>> cutting. I assumed I’d have to make my selection, then press control X to 
>> cut, then control V to paste, but it doesn’t work. Pressing F12 to run 
>> the Osara keyboard shortcut help seems to indicate that control X doesn’t 
>> do anything, but rather Control Shift X is what you do to cut. Trying 
>> this means that Reaper assumes I want to move the entire track, rather 
>> than merely removing the selected portion of audio. So then I went to the 
>> edit menu, and saw the option, cut items/tracks/envelope points within 
>> time selection. It didn’t seem to have a keyboard shortcut attributed to 
>> it that I could find, so I activated that option directly from the edit 
>> menu. But again, it got rid of the entire track. What am I missing? 
>> Thanks.
>>
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