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

Tue Mar 22 22:13:33 EDT 2016

With Great power, or in reaper’s case flexibility, comes great responsibility or something like that.

Step 1: Select track or tracks
Step 2: Set start and end points
Step 3: make selection. This is either 
A: Select all items in selected tracks in time selection
or 
B: Select all items in time selection
Step 4: Copy, Cut, or Delete. These options are 
A: Copy all items or events etc in time selection
B: Copy selected item. 
C: delete selected area of items.
the copy  actions also  have a cut counterpart as well so depending on what you are doing. 
Assigned the unassigned actions listed above to HotKeys to make your selecting and editing lives easier. Personally i created custom actions paring  some of these  above commands to speed workflow.   
> On Mar 22, 2016, at 9:15 PM, Juan Pablo Bello <juanpisjaws at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> isn't there an action that says sws: Copy? what does that do?
> 
> 2016-03-22 19:06 GMT-05:00, David Eagle via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>:
>> 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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