[Rwp] understanding Reaper's take system?

[Justin]

You could but you don't need to. Just split the items on that track and 
pick the active take you want for each item,

Justin

On 14/03/2016 21:37, Snowman wrote:
> Interesting process,  taking the best of a series of takes, and making 
> a new take, using the best of the takes.
>
> Can you do this by making a new track?  Select a take, use time 
> selection to identify the part you want, copy that, and paste it on to 
> the new track. Now, go back to that source item, and choose a better 
> take for the next passage.  make a time selection with that new take 
> selected, and copy that over to the new track as well.  Does this work?
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Teh" <jamie at nvaccess.org>
> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 9:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rwp] understanding Reaper's take system?
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>> 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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