[Rwp] understanding Reaper's take system?

Mon Mar 14 02:33:50 EDT 2016

You may need to set it on both affected items, not just one of them, as 
one might override the other.

T and shift+t change the active take for the item; i.e. the take that 
plays. So that allows you to cycle through takes. Not sure I follow what 
you mean about messing up order; it just changes the active take, rather 
than actually changing the stack or anything.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by take list. I don't know if even 
sighted users can choose two specific takes to play at once, but you 
could play all takes, then just mute the ones you're not interested in.

Btw, I do see a "(take list)" item in the Take sub-menu of the Item 
context menu. I just realised this is actually a weird artefact of the 
way OSARA (and eaAccess and ReaEar) bring up the Item context menu. If 
you access this via the Item menu on the menu bar, you do actually get 
the list of takes, including a check mark on the active one. There's 
nothing special about this, though; you could do just the same thing 
with t and shift+t or by selecting the active take in item properties.

Jamie

On 14/03/2016 4:04 PM, Juan Pablo Bello wrote:
> you know, I find that if you change the setting later of items always
> mix, ETC it will not apply unless you had set that as your default or
> before you had recorded into your project ETC. So I think another way
> to do it is just to check the length of your items on the item
> properties . That did the trick for me, because I started the second
> section at the last 4 bars of the first one, and I saw that the first
> section was 3 and something bars less than the time I had intended
> that item to sound. I guess its the equivalent for growing the edges
> of items... I wish this was explained a bit more thoroughly so we
> wouldn't have to ask and clutter the list with this stuff. Thanks for
> the switching the items for takes with the T and shift plus T command,
> I though that it would have messed up the order of things or
> whatever... and the take list is not accessible right_ for now at
> least, right? It would be nice to be able to play, say the first and
> third take simultaneously or arbitrary takes to hear differences on
> things, I know of people who have done that with reaper.
>
> 2016-03-14 0:06 GMT-05:00, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net>:
>> 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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