[Rwp] New to Reaper - comming from Amadeus Pro / Goldwave

Wed Mar 16 20:12:34 EDT 2016

Just want to chime in and add that all the things mentioned while possible the windows keyboard shortcuts were given. The cool thing and the thing about reaper that can be the biggest pain till you get to grips with it is nothing in reaper is destructive editing wise.  
> On Mar 15, 2016, at 11:40 AM, Justin <justinmacleod at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> yes there are definitely possibilities to record to multiple tracks at once.
> 
> The thing about Reaper is that it is actually quite difficult to do a destructive edit. If you work with items, which are Reaper's way of dividing up audio, and you delete one, that audio won't play any more and, if you have something called ripple editing set correctly and you've set your deletion point right, the items either side of what you deleted should close together seamlessly. However, if you decide you deleted too much, you can grow the edge of one of your items and this will tell Reaper, "Hold on a minute, play a bit more of that audio I just told you to forget about please", which is pretty cool. You can't restore the deleted item without hitting undo, but you can restore its contents by extending other items to include what you want to restore.
> 
> yes it is possible to audition selections, however this is a little tricky honestly and involves you having the settings in the playback section of the preferences dialogue set just right. I can't remember what those settings are off the top of my head, but yes it is doable.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Justin
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> On 15/03/2016 08:29, Thomas Byskov Dalgaard wrote:
>> Hi T.O.M. and Justin!
>> 
>> thank you so much for your replies.
>> 
>> So in a nudge shell you are confirming that Reaper will allow me to edit very precise both for one or more audiotracks at once?
>> Does Reaper allow me to move the start/end of a selection if I need it, and can I simulate how my result of the edit might sound like?
>> In other editors it is possible to preview before making destructive edits, and I just want to play around with Reaper to see if it can be great for my workflows?
>> 
>> I am also thinking of getting a usb sound interface with multiple inputs. Can I record multiple channels from it into Reaper at once?
>> 
>> An example would be recording my voice on track1 and a stereotrack on tracks 2 and 3, making the stereotrack after the recording, and then edit out mistakes etc. as I've done earlier on.
>> 
>> Best regards Thomas
>> 
>> Mail, MSN:
>> tbd at coolfortheblind.dk
>> Website:
>> http://www.coolfortheblind.dk
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>>> Den 15. mar. 2016 kl. 02.22 skrev "theoreomonster at reaperaccess.com" <theoreomonster at reaperaccess.com>:
>>> 
>>> Answers inserted below
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>>>> On Mar 14, 2016, at 6:43 PM, Thomas Byskov Dalgaard <tbd at coolfortheblind.dk> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi listers!
>>>> 
>>>> Today I found the
>>>> www.reaperaccess.com website, and decided to take another look at Reaper. Last time I tried it was in version 3, and it looks like accessibility has come far since that time.
>>>> 
>>>> Sorry if a lot of people already have asked for this newbie stuff but I am new to Reaper and all it can do, so here I have a few questions regarding functionality.
>>>> 
>>>> Over the years I have used software on both Windows and the Mac. I am a Mac user fulltime now and have ben that since 2009, and moved all my audio work to the Mac in 2010.
>>>> I have used Goldwave as my editor of choice on Windows and Amadeus Pro as my editor of choice on the Mac. Have played a little with Audacity in the past as well and I love the multitrack aspect when it comes to editing conversations in different tracks.
>>>> So for most of you this might sound very basic, but I want to use Reaper for producing podcasts and editing audio most of the time.
>>>> For the last many years I have played with audio editing and recording. I have never done anything regarding music productions, since my focus mostly is on productions for podcasting and other spokenword material.
>>>> So here are a few getting-started questions:
>>>> 
>>>> 1. Will Reaper allow me to do very precise edits without having to know anything about music anotation (like beats, bars etc.) as my other apps have helped me doing? And what do I need to know in order to get into Reaper comming from the software I have used in the past?
>>> While i never used Amadeus Pro, from what i read of its manual and some quick start documentation another blind person wrote it appears to work similar to most any other audio app that lets you do editing.  Basically you set your  start point and end point  and manipulate  the selected audio as needed  splitting it into its own item as needed. There are  explanations on the reaper access site about the different ways to navigate through a project and make selections along with some scenarios to get you up and running.
>>> 
>>>> 2. I have also played a little with Audacity on the Mac, so I know a little regarding multitrack editing. Can Reaper do some of the same like ducking background music when a speaker talks, normalize all tracks in a project instead of having to normalize one at a time?
>>> Ducting music, yes, but you’d have to set up a compressor to do this. I am thinking of a way to normalize all items in the project other than what justin described in another email but i’d like to play with that to make sure it works before saying it does but i am pretty sure it can normalize all tracks.
>>> 
>>>> 3. How do they developers of Reaper handle upgrades? I see on their website that a license will work up to version 6.99, so version 7 might cost a full price license or have they provided an upgrade discount earlier on before version 5?
>>>> Reaper is $60 and that gets you a license that covers you up to two full version numbers. so since its on Version 5 now, if you  buy now you won’t have to shell out another $60 till version 7 ships. The amount of updates and new features that gets added even without their being a new version number is astounding so this is still very economical.
>>>> Is it corect that the accessibility on Mac OS X haven’t been looked at since the Reaper access went away on Windows? It seems to me that one of the developers of NVDA have done some nice things for Windows users. I hope some of this could be caried over to the Mac at some point in time. I do understand that it might take a huge amount of time and resources doing this, and as long as basic accessibility is there I hope it is enough for me to get some of my basic recordings and edits done.
>>>> I am not a programmer myself, but I love to play with software. :)
>>> Actually starting with version 4 some work was done with  reaper to make it more accessible out of the box and it actually was natively more accessible on OS X than it was on windows. with V4. However windows users had ReaAccess at the time and was still able to make some use of version 4 though most stayed on version 3 where ReaAccess worked better. The missing link for OS X (since i am not a coder and wasn’t about to write an access plugin similar to ReaAccess) was adding the SWS extension so I had access to ReaConsole so i could navigate tracks and etc quickly but also going through and adding hot keys for all the actions i needed to use frequently. I created the Reaperaccess.com site to document all this.The only thing that reaper didn’t really do on OS X in my opinion that most people missed at this point is spoken feedback when you moved to a beat/measure or issued an action etc. Given that i had been using the mac for sometime now and gotten use to working in Pro Tools which is relatively a lot less chatty than Reaper with ReaAccess,this want an issue for me. But several people commented that they couldn’t work without that spoken feedback and never really used reaper on the mac. That being said, Osara the currently developed Windows access plugin for reaper has plans to make its way to the mac later in the year. I’ll leave the time frame for when for those closer to the matter to comment on as its been sometime since i last heard a time and i don’t know how on track that still is.
>>> 
>>>> If my focus is mainly at audio editing and recording do you know of any good resources, podcasts to start at?
>>> As far as reaper on the mac goes reaper access is really all there is at the moment.i had grand plans to make podcast and other content for the site, but life and other musical projects happened and i still have a full time day job competing for my time.   but read the site, poke around in reaper and if you get  stuck ask questions. Cuz at the end of the day the HotKeys may be different but the concepts are still the same  on windows or mac.
>>> 
>>>> Thanks in advance. I look forward to see what you guys are posting and to hear how yu use Reaper.
>>>> 
>>>> Best regards Thomas
>>>> 
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