[Rwp] Copying Multiple Items on Multiple Tracks

Wed Mar 30 04:44:05 EDT 2016

One thing about it, if you do it with non contiguous item selection, 
then reaper is context sensitive, and knows you're copying items.
So you can use the shift a command and go up and down tracks,
holding down shift key and selecting tracks,

and then use
the s to split all in the same place.
Then use your non-contiguous track selection to grab them all, this can 
be tricky till you get the hang of it,
the trick is to hold down the shift key,
or you'll loose all your selections,
but you can move up and down tracks and left and right using the control 
key and spacing and unspacing on items as needed till you get them all.
Then standard copy and paste.
At least with audio, haven't tried this with midi yet.
But if it comes right down to it I'll
render the stuff out to  audio to work with it better.
I'm already doing that because reaper's midi doesn't respond to normal 
controls, so hey, we're gaining on it over here.

On 3/30/2016 3:35 AM, Chris Belle wrote:
> I just used non-contiguous selection to copy a few tracks and made it 
> work as well.
> there's hope for me yet.
> 'grin'.
>
>
> On 3/30/2016 3:14 AM, Chris Belle wrote:
>> Well, wonders will never cease.
>> I managed to get a hunk of tracks to copy inserting later without 
>> having to split.
>> I used the alt-shift i
>> select all items on selected tracks in current time selection
>> and
>>
>> and the alt-control l
>>
>> copy loop of selected area of audio items
>> respectively.
>> and for what ever reason it worked.
>>
>> I had ripple all tracks on and only one item per track though.
>>
>>
>> On 3/30/2016 2:31 AM, Chris Belle wrote:
>>> Except you can't use shift s to split with no time selection and you 
>>> can't use the same begin and end time selection, you can't have a 
>>> time selection of 0.
>>> so I used the shift A
>>> select items
>>> under edit cursor on selected tracks
>>> and then i could use s and get a split across tracks in the same place.
>>> Crazy baby, crazy.
>>>
>>> On 3/30/2016 2:09 AM, Derek Lane wrote:
>>>> Correct.
>>>> This is one of those areas where reaper is, in fact, not context 
>>>> sensative.  If audio exists which is has pasted audio plopped on 
>>>> it, it uses your default item behavior.  If ripple editing is set 
>>>> to all, and you have the split, its going to do what its told there 
>>>> as well.
>>>> If you are in a situation though where you do have to manualy 
>>>> cut/copy/paste you'll need ripple to all on the first track you 
>>>> paste, then off for everything else.
>>>> Ripple being on initially carves out the spot for everything else 
>>>> to go, turning it off lets you place other things in the same spot 
>>>> on there respective tracks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 3/30/2016 1:53 AM, Chris Belle wrote:
>>>>> Yeh, that sounds right except why do you need to shift s again for 
>>>>> the destination?
>>>>> Oh I guess that makes sure you have a clean edge to line up 
>>>>> against when you put your items there.
>>>>> And yes, turning on ripple editing definitely.
>>>>> I also have found that clearing your time selection when you paste 
>>>>> makes a difference some times but haven't figured out exactly when.
>>>>> or why.
>>>>> Perhaps a timed selection copy alone would work
>>>>> if you do a split at the destination.
>>>>> Because I got it to work once,
>>>>> but ripple editing won't work with only timed selections if you 
>>>>> don't have items split.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 3/29/2016 11:07 PM, Derek Lane wrote:
>>>>>> I managed it once by making a selection, pressing shift+S to make 
>>>>>> sure everything was split in to items on each side,  copying, 
>>>>>> going to where I wanted things to go, presssing shift+s to split 
>>>>>> across everything, making sure ripple editing was set to all, 
>>>>>> then pasting.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 3/29/2016 11:50 PM, James Teh wrote:
>>>>>>> I don't have a direct answer to your question, but I suspect the 
>>>>>>> trick is going to be to just think about item selection, not 
>>>>>>> track selection. So, the last thing you select should be an 
>>>>>>> item. It's also going to be easier to do this using 
>>>>>>> non-contiguous selection, I think. Otherwise, you'll end up 
>>>>>>> accidentally selecting stuff you don't want.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Note that while REAPER is itself very context sensitive, OSARA 
>>>>>>> takes it even further. While it does have its drawbacks when 
>>>>>>> dealing with complex stuff like this, the problem with not being 
>>>>>>> context sensitive is that you need a lot of extra commands for 
>>>>>>> each possible context.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jamie
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 30/03/2016 1:14 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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