[Rwp] understanding Reaper's take system?

[Chris Belle]

What's really gonna be a skull splitter is trying to get my head around 
hey there are 4 items here all in the same time area, and for simple 
things we are normally having them along a linear line, but they can be 
all bunched up together with a bit of this and a bit of that,
and trying to figure out where what is say if you recorded several 
passes on one track, with swonar I'd just do it if I couldn't be 
bothered making separate tracks for everything, like a backing vocal stack,
and too bad if you messed up one take in the middle, but with reaper at 
least if we do get confused we can blow it all up to tracks and fix it.
Or blow it up to takes, because it's easier to switch takes and figure 
out what's what than to figure out and try and mute and play only one 
item at a time and see where you need to trim and such.
Loads of fun ha.


On 3/13/2016 11:02 PM, James Teh wrote:
> By default, REAPER is set so that "Enclosed items replace enclosing 
> items". Otherwise, when you overlap items (by grwing edges, etc.), 
> they would mix, which is not what you want when comping. You can 
> change this under "Item mix behavior" in the properties for the item.
>
> On 14/03/2016 1:50 PM, Chris Belle wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>
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