[Rwp] understanding Reaper's take system?

[Chris Belle]

Now this has got me flumuxed and I'm sure I'm gonna feel really dum when 
I find out it's something simple 'grin'.
Why the heck when I import 2 items on the same track can't I play both 
of them, one seems to over-write the other until the first chunk is done 
playing, and then the other one will play.
I can explode them in to takes and then they become one item and the 
takes will all play, but why not both items?
When you record they will all play, but no matter what i do I can not 
get both items to play.
This makes me miss sonar's sound on sound blend.
mode.


On 3/13/2016 9:34 PM, James Teh wrote:
> On 14/03/2016 10:38 AM, Juan Pablo Bello wrote:
>> So, I recently recorded several takes of a saxophone part. And then we
>> did record only, say, the second section of that part.
> The first thing to note is that REAPER divides audio into "items" and 
> each "item" can have one or more takes. Only one take can be "active" 
> at a time for an item. When you did your first take, there was one 
> "item". When you recorded the second take, because you only recorded 
> it for the second section, REAPER will have created a second "item". 
> The first item is for the first section; the second item is for the 
> second section. The second item will have two takes.
>
>> 1. How do I hear the different takes, one by one?
> Move to an item (control+rightArrow, etc.) and press t or shift+t to 
> switch the active take.
>
>> 2. How can I hear part of one take from the first section and another
>> take from the second section?
> You just change the active take for each item (as above) as you like.
>
>> 3. Is there a way to put different sections of different takes into a
>> single take?, or better, after I have the takes I am satisfied with,
>> can I make those takes a final take or a final track for sending?
> If you're working entirely in REAPER, you generally wouldn't combine 
> items. You just set the takes the way you want them and you're done. 
> If you want to export to something else, you'd generally "render" the 
> project (whether that be the whole thing or a single track). REAPER 
> does have options to glue items together, render as a new take, etc., 
> but yougenerally wouldn't need to use those.
>
> Jamie
>