[Rwp] A Reaper editing question

Juan Pablo Bello juanpisjaws at gmail.com
Sun Jun 5 03:26:23 EDT 2016


nevermind, got it. solved my own problem.. Turns out that I never
deselected items when making new splits, I needed to press shift plus
escape when making a new split. Reaper is too flexible of a monster
indeed.

2016-06-05 2:11 GMT-05:00, Juan Pablo Bello <juanpisjaws at gmail.com>:
> this has probably been asked before, but I just can't find an answer.
> When I start to split items at time selection using shift S, there are
> times when it just won't work at all, even though my selection is just
> there and its the perfect selection time. I use this mainly for
> correcting pitch of vocals manually ETC. Does anyone know why this is?
> is there a setting that prevents this behavior? is there a maximum
> amount of splits I can do per track? Sometimes I select without
> playing the selection, and then it works. But if say, I have selected
> some portion of audio using shift and keys, then move just once with
> the press of the opposite arrow key and loop it, or nudge the edges of
> the selection left or right ETC it just won' let me split items at
> time selection sometimes. This starts to happen when I have several
> items on a track, usually 10 or more. What's going on?
>
> 2016-04-29 5:16 GMT-05:00, Andrew Downie <access_tech at iprimus.com.au>:
>> Thanks all.  Your feedback has been very helpful.
>>
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>> On 29/04/2016 4:28 AM, TheOreoMonster wrote:
>>> Actually was i do is set the time selection with the start point and end
>>> point. then i use remove selected area of items. Turn ripple editing on
>>> and it should work the same. as the other way. Also You can make a
>>> custom
>>> action to speed this up and perform most of it in one  button press.
>>>
>>>> On Apr 28, 2016, at 1:32 PM, Tor Tollhag <tortollhag at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Honestly that's the easyest way to do things for me as well.
>>>> One other thing that can also be done is to make a time selection, so
>>>> you set the beginning where the sound you want to remove starts and
>>>> the end where you want the sound to end. Then you can use an action I
>>>> Think is called create items from time selection.
>>>> Now you have a separat item during the time you selected.
>>>> I sometimes do that with Music if there's a section I want to loop for
>>>> example.
>>>> The fun thing with this is when you have a time selection you can turn
>>>> on repeat, so reaper will play that selection looped.
>>>> Then you can nudge where the start and end Points are Before you
>>>> decide to create the item from it.
>>>> The first method you describe is easyer though if you're mostly
>>>> removing sounds I Think. But for looping stuff I like to do that this
>>>> other way too.
>>>> Hope this helps.
>>>>
>>>> 2016-04-28 13:44 GMT+02:00, Andrew Downie <access_tech at iprimus.com.au>:
>>>>> One of the things I do quite a bit is to edit out bumps, coughs and
>>>>> other sundry sections of recordings.  In my limited experience with
>>>>> Reaper I split an item before the offending sound and split again
>>>>> afterwards.  With ripple editing turned on, I then delete the unwanted
>>>>> item.  Are there other ways of doing this?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Andrew
>>>>>
>>>>>
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