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

Fri Mar 25 08:59:51 EDT 2016

Right, of course one can cobble together this sort of work flow. but I 
envission this hanging up a lot of new comers to reaper,
but as was  said,
and I agree, when you take on reaper, you take on the learning curve, 
and the pros and cons of such a flexible DAW.
The bottom line point I think that all this has made is that reaper
is pretty much made for item based editing.

On 3/23/2016 7:37 PM, TheOreoMonster wrote:
> There is a split at selection action. And also … custom actions. If you perform the same steps frequently enough make a custom action.
>
>> On Mar 23, 2016, at 2:09 PM, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> yes, I used that as well, but I still had to split items if I wanted to paste things in to the project and have other stuff move over.
>> With strictly time based editing, ripple did not work.
>> So if you want to build a project
>> by copying bits as you go, then it will take several more steps.
>> Cumbersome but doable.
>>
>> On 3/23/2016 2:12 AM, Juan Pablo Bello wrote:
>>> well, the alt shift I command Works flawlessly to me . That's the
>>> select all items on selected tracks on time selection on.... oh,
>>> sorry. that one. Its just that extra step right before pressing
>>> control C
>>>
>>> 2016-03-23 1:21 GMT-05:00, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net>:
>>>> 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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