[Rwp] Copying Multiple Items on Multiple Tracks

[Chris Belle]

Yup, don't totally trust myself yet with paying clients and reaper,
I do post production stuff, and mixing,
but some of this is a confidence thing,
gosh, we'll all get there I think.
I have seen reaper move really quickly,
with new features added,
who knows, maybe they'll make an easy copy action where you can do 
ripple editing with a simple timed selection of multiple tracks.
That's how it should be anyway.


On 3/29/2016 11:17 PM, Bryan Smart wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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