[Rwp] How to copy and paste time based selection?

[David Eagle]

I completely agree that copying and pasting could be much more
intuitive with Reaper. It would be great if there was just a way of
selecting audio, selecting tracks, then copying the selected audio on
the selected tracks and pasting it where you wanted. It's the one
thing I miss from Sonar.

On 22/03/2016, Juan Pablo Bello <juanpisjaws at gmail.com> wrote:
> when that happens make sure that you set "items always mix " on the
> project settings or at least for adjacent ones, and set their lengths
> to something closer to what you want on the item properties dialog.
>
> 2016-03-22 0:33 GMT-05:00, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net>:
>> Just tried it on a very simple one item short piece of audio and all it
>> did was chop off the end of the audio to the length of the time
>> selection I set.
>>
>> So unless I'm just really thick this morning, I don't see how that will
>> help.
>> To me, fit to time means snugging audio down to fit in a smaller or
>> larger space.
>> I haven't tried the stretch one yet,
>> but the one that loops if necessary just chopped off the end of my audio.
>> Oh well, it was round about, but I got it to work another way anyhow.
>>
>> On 3/21/2016 11:49 PM, Juan Pablo Bello wrote:
>>> that is exactly why i use the fit items to time selection, looping if
>>> needed action
>>>
>>> 2016-03-21 22:54 GMT-05:00, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net>:
>>>> This is one area where reaper is totally not intuitive.
>>>> I never got it to work with using strictly time selection.
>>>> I did get a copy and paste to work using a combination of splitting
>>>> items and then time base as well.
>>>> When I did it strictly on time based selection it sort of worked but it
>>>> over-wrote stuff I wanted to push over, even when ripple editing was
>>>> on.
>>>> Sheesh.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 3/15/2016 3:58 PM, Juan Pablo Bello wrote:
>>>>> I htink reaper's paradigm is a Little different. The following
>>>>> commands should be helpful
>>>>>
>>>>> copy selected area of items
>>>>> cut selected area of items
>>>>> fit items to time selection, looping if needed (I have it to control
>>>>> plus
>>>>> H )
>>>>> fit items to time selection, stretching if needed
>>>>>
>>>>> the nice thing about the third one especially is that you can mark
>>>>> your selection, then use that command and it will copy paste for you,
>>>>> and assuming that you have say, a break on beat 2 of bar 34, it will
>>>>> stop right there. so it does even the edit autoMagically for you, all
>>>>> in a single keystroke.
>>>>>
>>>>> To do this on all tracks you set your time selection, then select all
>>>>> tracks , then perform that command and I think it should work.
>>>>>
>>>>> also, try: 1. Setting your time selection, 2. selecting all tracks, 3.
>>>>> control+c, 4. Pressing escape to clear your time selection (I think
>>>>> this is the step you might be missing as reaper does not clear
>>>>> selection when you cut copy or paste), 5. navigating to bar 34, 6.
>>>>> pasting.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2016-03-15 14:41 GMT-05:00, Alan <alan.jdv at gmail.com>:
>>>>>> Hi, guys,
>>>>>> I'm feeling so stupid right now, after more than 30 minutes of
>>>>>> testing,
>>>>>> I cannot copy, for example, from bar 2 to bar 34 of a track to paste
>>>>>> it.
>>>>>> I'd like to copy from 2 to 34 of all tracks to duplicate the length
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> the recording, but I just cannot figure out how to do it.
>>>>>> Reaper is copying my seven tracks all the time and pasting new tracks
>>>>>> instead.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How does it work?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks in advance!
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