[Rwp] Copying Multiple Items on Multiple Tracks

Wed Mar 30 03:08:31 EDT 2016

Funny, I don't have my traks going out of sync at all when copying and
pasting, probably because I use the fit items to time selection
command and never copy and paste_ or setting the item length on the
edit box on item properties helps too. if I copy and paste the alt
shift I command (select all items on time selection) helps
tremendously. I always clear time selection before I paste.

2016-03-30 1:59 GMT-05:00, Derek Lane <derek at pdaudio.net>:
> 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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