[Rwp] Cutting and pasting

[Patrick Perdue]

Once you have a time selection, if you want to make an item split on 
either side, you can press shift+s. This will split on either side of 
the time selection across all tracks simultaneously that have items at 
that point on the timeline. If you only want this split to occur on the 
last touched track, press shift+a, then shift+s.
You can also, of course, drop arbitrary splits anywhere without first 
making a time selection, then manipulate those items however you like.
Then there is the state of ripple editing to consider.

Remember that the cut, copy and paste commands in Reaper are 
context-sensitive. In other words, depending on what you last touched, 
I.E. a track, an item, an effect, determines what those commands 
actually affect.

On 9/10/2015 9:49 PM, Snowman via RWP wrote:
> 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"
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> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 5:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rwp] Cutting and pasting
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>> 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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