[Rwp] Copying Multiple Items on Multiple Tracks

Wed Mar 30 01:13:43 EDT 2016

I have never found an use for that, that is probably because i tend to
use full loops instead of say, just a kick drum, then a snare, then
whatever else. For duplicating I think I have not done or have had to
duplicate an entire band arrangement, ever. I think its a matter of
select all items or even locking or grouping them too and then perform
the copy and paste or cut and paste operation, and editing all of them
at once, shouldn't that help?  also, Ripple editing
or make a custom action, such as
-select all items on selected tracks
-lock selected items
-unselect all items

and ssame for unlocking.

Or too, make a custom action that goes like this (I am paraphrasing probably)

Copy loop points to time selection
Select all items on all tracks
Copy selected areas of selected items

then you could move cursor to wherever and paste.

that I found is the closest that works right.

When googling though, everyone talks about splitting and making what
you want to copy into a region or by using markers, then opening the
region manager (control alt shift R or cmd alt shift R) and pasting.
There is also dedicated, separate commands for xenakios that are
called just copy, cut and paste, not sure if they behave differently
or what. But I am sure they are there for a reason.
I am also thinking of enabling the snap to grid or similar functions
and stuff if you work strictly with bars and loops.

also, found this. http://urosbaric.com/reaper-classical-music-editing-2

... not sure what else to write here or or how  but... there you go.

2016-03-29 23:17 GMT-05:00, Bryan Smart <bryansmart at bryansmart.com>:
> This problem has prevented me from doing anything serious in Reaper, too. If
> the project is a song, I can't easily build up a loop consisting of a few
> rhythm tracks, then quickly copy/paste it out to have a skeleton song form.
> It's move each damn item at a time, or try to move them all, and have stuff
> nudged over on some tracks but not others (everything getting out of sync),
> or else stuff gets overwritten.
>
> Selection of material is a rootamentary skill, and a prerequisite for any
> editing. Maybe I'll eventually find this workflow faster, but, now, it seems
> so frustrating that I keep doubting the utility of the rest of Reaper. I
> think no way could I edit/arrange 50 track songs in this. Any time I have to
> do something for a paying gig, I still load up SONAR.
>
> Maybe one day...
>
> Bryan
>
>> On Mar 29, 2016, at 11:58 PM, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> I have made progress, but it still takes some head scratching is and not
>> 100 percent and quick intuitive yet.
>> The main trick is that you can't depend on time based selection alone,
>> especially if you want to copy to say the same tracks further down stream
>> with a chunk of tracks you copied.
>> You have to use a combination of splitting up items, and then pasting them
>> intact in place.
>> if you try and just use time selection it will over-write replace
>> something down stream, not move it over.
>> Like the other fellow said too, you can get in to trouble if you have
>> different numbrs of items  on different tracks,
>> so I try and glue things nad have consistant numbers of items when doing
>> this.
>> But for me I select my tracks, make a time selection, then split items
>> according to my time selection,
>> and then make sure I have everything selected for the copy operation.
>> yes, it's a huge pain in the butt, but now I can get it to work one out of
>> 3 times with out a mis-step so we are gaining on it slowly.
>> I tend to agree with you,
>> the context things can be ok, but often it it a pain in the back side.
>> But hey we are fellows from the old school, even though you are way
>> smarter than I am 'grin'.
>> But it makes me feel a bit better hearing this from someone like you,
>> I don't feel like such a retard.
>> 'grin'.
>> I'm determined to make this work though,
>> one of the copy operations
>> copy selected area of items seems to help but doesn't give any speech
>> feedback.
>> The alt-shift i helps too.
>> select
>> all items on selected tracks
>> in current time selection
>> helps as well,
>> but depending on what I last did, the smart copy
>> control shift c sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.
>> Ha, it's enough to drive a sane man to heavy
>> chemical imbibement and
>> strong desires to inflict
>> percussive maintainance.
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 3/29/2016 10:14 PM, Snowman wrote:
>>>    I have decided that I hate context dependent operations.  They only
>>> make sense if you are intimately familiar with the UI, and it happens to
>>> appreciate your work flow.
>>> But, if you press one key out of sequence, then you and your application
>>> are out of sync, and stuff happens that you didn't intend.
>>> This business of whether I'm selecting tracks, or items, or items on
>>> tracks makes me crazy!
>>> Tell the guys at cockos that...
>>> Anyway, has anyone finally figured out how to do this?
>>> The goal is to identify some portion of your mix with a time selection,
>>> and to be able to jsut pick up everthing on all tracks, and move it down
>>> the time line to some other location, and paste.
>>> I can manage to get this to work, but only by moving one item at a time,
>>> and working on one track at a time.
>>> Very tedious.
>>> So much so that I would rather do the rendering, and then go to sound
>>> forge with the final mix, and hack it up instead.
>>> Anyway, if anyone has conquered this, I'd love to hear about it.
>>>
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