<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>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.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">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.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Maybe one day...<br><br><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); font-size: 13pt;">Bryan</span></div></div><div><br>On Mar 29, 2016, at 11:58 PM, Chris Belle <<a href="mailto:cb1963@sbcglobal.net">cb1963@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>I have made progress, but it still takes some head scratching is and not 100 percent and quick intuitive yet.</span><br><span>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.</span><br><span>You have to use a combination of splitting up items, and then pasting them intact in place.</span><br><span>if you try and just use time selection it will over-write replace something down stream, not move it over.</span><br><span>Like the other fellow said too, you can get in to trouble if you have different numbrs of items on different tracks,</span><br><span>so I try and glue things nad have consistant numbers of items when doing this.</span><br><span>But for me I select my tracks, make a time selection, then split items according to my time selection,</span><br><span>and then make sure I have everything selected for the copy operation.</span><br><span>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.</span><br><span>I tend to agree with you,</span><br><span>the context things can be ok, but often it it a pain in the back side.</span><br><span>But hey we are fellows from the old school, even though you are way smarter than I am 'grin'.</span><br><span>But it makes me feel a bit better hearing this from someone like you,</span><br><span>I don't feel like such a retard.</span><br><span>'grin'.</span><br><span>I'm determined to make this work though,</span><br><span>one of the copy operations</span><br><span>copy selected area of items seems to help but doesn't give any speech feedback.</span><br><span>The alt-shift i helps too.</span><br><span>select</span><br><span>all items on selected tracks</span><br><span>in current time selection</span><br><span>helps as well,</span><br><span>but depending on what I last did, the smart copy</span><br><span>control shift c sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.</span><br><span>Ha, it's enough to drive a sane man to heavy</span><br><span>chemical imbibement and</span><br><span>strong desires to inflict</span><br><span>percussive maintainance.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>On 3/29/2016 10:14 PM, Snowman wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span> 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.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>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.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>This business of whether I'm selecting tracks, or items, or items on tracks makes me crazy!</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Tell the guys at cockos that...</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Anyway, has anyone finally figured out how to do this?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>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.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>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.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Very tedious.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>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.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Anyway, if anyone has conquered this, I'd love to hear about it.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>RWP mailing list</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:RWP@bluegrasspals.com">RWP@bluegrasspals.com</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp">http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp</a></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>RWP mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:RWP@bluegrasspals.com">RWP@bluegrasspals.com</a></span><br><span><a href="http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp">http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>