[Rwp] Copying Multiple Items on Multiple Tracks

[Derek Lane]

Maybe it's because I never had sonar, but I don't mind dealing with all 
the strangenessses of the reaper world.
The fact is, we've came a lot farther in the last few months with Jamies 
work on osara than we have in years past.
My latest trick is using envelopes in restoration/mastering projects, 
along with MS, to process the mid and sides separately... Not to mention 
all of the obvious uses.  I just finished a smirf record, from when I 
was a kid; and it had a few deep cratches which I was able to minimize 
more so than if I had used my sweet of plugins in a traditional sense.
Back to topic though;  I wonder if anyone who is good at reascript or 
any of the other programming languages reaper supports has found a cool 
way to automate bulk cut/copy/paste operations?  Surely the mainstream 
reaper work flow wouldn't require the kind of messing around we  need to 
do from time to time.

On 3/30/2016 2:15 AM, Chris Belle wrote:
> 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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