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

Wed Mar 23 02:21:10 EDT 2016

Oh tell me about it, that sound on sound blend and easy copying of audio 
was a sonar sweet spot.
I realize reaper's take and item system is more flexible in some ways,
but also more confusing and more steps to get an easy task done.
usually reaper's context ssensitive tendencies work out in ;your favor, 
but when it comes to copying stuff, it seems to get retarded 'grin';.
the only way I made it work was to do a combination of splitting items, 
as well as time selection when I wanted to say copying a mesure of stuff 
on all tracks to a place further down stream, also keeping the audio 
already there.
Ripple editing in other words.
In the mean time,
even though I do understand the basic concepts  of takes,
and items, when doing multiple bits of audio in the same time location,k 
it can be very confusing to have multiple items and takes going on not 
always in strict linear fashion and to figure out what's overlapping 
what, and what's in front of or behind what.
So I have been using track folders, which I actually like in reaper, 
better than sonar,
to separate out different parts of audio I want to keep together,
and share resources.
I see now why a lot of old school reaper guys liked these track folders.
yes, I can turn on the mix behavior to always mix items and play them 
like sonar does, but it still get's messy,
because each time you make a new recording, you get a new item,
you have actions to slice your pie anyway you want it, one item with 
multiple takes,
or to different tracks, but having things spread out on different tracks 
so you can look at them and manipulate then with a same set of controls 
is what I have done for ever,
that's the way i did comps in sonar,
so since we can have as many tracks as we want and still folder them 
down to
make them easily navigatable,
then this is a nice work flow.
The power of reaper is that you can work a lot of different ways, so i 
think while I'm getting used to reaper's crazy take system,
I'll fall back on this track folder method and put everything
on it's own track, where I can readily see it nad edit it on a linear 
time line.
I have also discovered that blending and over-dubbing midi works out 
nicely this way as well,
as I often want to play separate parts of midi but on the same midi 
channel or on the same track, but if you try and record another 
something on a midi track in reaper, it's default behavior is to 
over-write it.
So, fun times.

On 3/22/2016 7:06 PM, David Eagle via RWP wrote:
> 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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