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Old 06-11-2010, 05:59 AM   #81
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Adam: Om, that looks nice!

But... possible to make the empty spaces "transparent"?
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Old 06-11-2010, 06:02 AM   #82
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Adam: Om, that looks nice!

But... possible to make the empty spaces "transparent"?
Yup just replace the "PT Paste" action in the first macro with the regular Reaper Paste function.
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Old 06-11-2010, 06:25 AM   #83
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Hmm, I really don't know how to create a macro in the first place. Do I do this from the action list?
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Old 06-11-2010, 06:33 AM   #84
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Yes, from the action list. Hit "New" and follow your nose, (or read chapter 13.8 of the f user guide ).

Also recommended for everybody diving into custom actions: read the SWS extension manual available at http://www.standingwaterstudios.com/manual.php

Lots of hot tips in there, even for people not using SWS extensions, though everybody should.
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Old 06-11-2010, 06:45 AM   #85
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"Duplicate selected items" and "Duplicate selected area of selected items" coming soon.
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Old 06-11-2010, 07:02 AM   #86
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Schwa: oh man, then i'll just do the reading
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Old 06-11-2010, 07:06 AM   #87
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BTW, please implement Area Selection (track independant and so on), so that the "duplicate" will follow that... Duplicate won't be really useful unless you can make the copy start at the relative time in the next measure/bar/specified
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Old 06-11-2010, 07:26 AM   #88
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"Duplicate selected items" and "Duplicate selected area of selected items" coming soon.
schwa, can we please have it set up so that if "Trim behind" is enabled, the empty space in the selected area will delete anything it tries to paste over top of? I think that is something we missed during the beta phase for that implementation in general... Copy and paste should include the empty space and the empty space should delete whatever it runs into if "Trim behind" is enabled.

http://screencast.com/t/YTU3ZDZkYmEt
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Old 06-11-2010, 08:27 AM   #89
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got curious about this request so made a custom action..

but you'll have to decide if this is what you want...

this does not work while the project is playing... and is not for the midi editor nor for midi items.... just for a piece of audio wav file:

I set the keybinding to Ctrl-Shift D

Custom action name: Duplicate Item paste next

Item: Select item under mouse cursor
Item: Glue selected items
Edit: Copy items
Item navigation: Move cursor right to nearest item edge
Item: Paste items/tracks
View: Move cursor right


you may want to modify this and season to taste....

If I understand the req, coming from cubase thinking, I assume you were after the 'fill time selection' that duplicates a piece of audio across the length of a time selection...?

one thing in reaper to keep in mind about loops.... say you slice out a little section and you want that to be your loop to copy and paste... OK... if you take it as it is, then later you drag it larger, it will still have all the original wav's data with it... BUT if you first just select your sliced item, and glue it [sounds funny, but I mean just glue it to itself] then it becomes it's own unique item and will loop only itself...

so this action does that...
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Old 06-11-2010, 08:37 AM   #90
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Duplicating one item is really not worth the hassle, I'd say it's all about duplicating a selected area.

Lets say you have 45 items over a period of 2 bars. The first item starts 5 samples past the second beat, and the last one ends 3 samples before the last measure ends. ctrl+drag or duplicate is really not useful here because you will have to zoom in before you can even drop it, just to make sure it lands in the same place within the bar.

This is a ESSENTIAL workflow thing if you are making music in an editorial way.
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Old 06-11-2010, 06:22 PM   #91
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45 items over 2 bars? on how many tracks?

I have not a clue as what sort of music this would be.
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Old 06-11-2010, 07:52 PM   #92
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schwa, can we please have it set up so that if "Trim behind" is enabled, the empty space in the selected area will delete anything it tries to paste over top of? I think that is something we missed during the beta phase for that implementation in general... Copy and paste should include the empty space and the empty space should delete whatever it runs into if "Trim behind" is enabled.

http://screencast.com/t/YTU3ZDZkYmEt
+1, definitely.
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Old 06-12-2010, 07:23 AM   #93
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hopi: Imagine a 16th note bassline (or hihat, whatever...) with some "ghost" note fills/variation, 2 bar loop - where you want another type of swing/groove than the one recorded. This bassline loop is then to be slightly varied so that every 2 bars will not sound the same.

And no, tracking another take is just not an option to get this (slightly mechanical if you wish) groove...

i can totally understand not everybody is into this type of editing, but this scenario is really not something rare as a "computer musician", using the DAW as an "instrument" if you so wish...

Just as an example of extensive/creative editing, not me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsBfj6khrG4
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Old 06-12-2010, 08:56 AM   #94
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I'd say it's all about duplicating a selected area.
I agree with this. Duplicating the selections, length, empty space and all.
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Old 06-12-2010, 09:09 AM   #95
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"Duplicate selected items" and "Duplicate selected area of selected items" coming soon.
Looking forward to this Scwha!

but don't forget to have a well deserved break first!
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Old 06-12-2010, 10:06 AM   #96
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pac-man... ummm still not clear on the actual process you desire

but let me see if I understand it at all...

what I think you are wanting is to be able to select multple items on multiple tracks [say two bars worth] and then copy and paste those as a 'two bar' group [I use the term group losely here]... so you might end up with 8 or 100 pasted copies of that 'group'

Now what I still don't know is this:
..Is this all audio data [wav] or all midi data, or some of each?

Also, when you then say you want to make variations of the data... is that variations after pasting it? This part of the process is not clear to me... I mean exactly what [for example] will be done and done to exactly what???

You mentioned Cubase before.... how and what functions in Cubase would you be using to do this?
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Old 06-13-2010, 01:45 PM   #97
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hopi: Strictly audio in my case (midi is easy enough to edit thru midi editor anyway), and mostly one track at a time. For multiple tracks it would be handy to be able to select several different areas in time, and make [duplicate] follow some (user preferable) pattern/length. For example, the way we now can set time/loop selection to force certain bars/beats or multiples thereof.

As far as the variations i'm referring to - think pitch shifting some items, changing item order, reversing, applying FX, that kind of thing. This is done after duplication, when the basic structure/form of the song is set.
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Old 06-15-2010, 10:43 AM   #98
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Coming for the MIDI editor too? Duplicating notes/controller data ...
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Old 07-06-2010, 12:18 PM   #99
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Coming for the MIDI editor too? Duplicating notes/controller data ...
i was just coming here to ask this same question, its good in the arrange window now but the piano roll/midi needs ctrl-d functionality badly, ableton also does this, so now thats cubase, logic & ableton
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Old 07-06-2010, 07:08 PM   #100
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I just droped back again to this discussion and was looking further into it

I can have macros to do pretty much what I want with duplication in the arrange window.. EXCEPT for one thing...

I cannot include in the macro a way to make each item unique so that it will NOT loop [like if you drag it out to the right]...

I think this is because the action for loop item is a toggle... so every time I run the custom dupe action, every other item has loop off... leap frog style, eh?

So thinking if there were two actions.... loop item on and loop item off... it would work better than a toggle...

...or is there a way I've missed?
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Old 11-25-2010, 02:26 PM   #101
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i was just coming here to ask this same question, its good in the arrange window now but the piano roll/midi needs ctrl-d functionality badly, ableton also does this, so now thats cubase, logic & ableton

I just can't find a way round this for midi,I can understand some people don't see the need for this but when im working with 100 keys of a chopped drum loop an trying to program its causing me to go back to cubase to do my editing then export back as a midi file which is not ideal being that reaper is almost perfect for me in most other features
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I just can't find a way round this for midi,I can understand some people don't see the need for this but when im working with 100 keys of a chopped drum loop an trying to program its causing me to go back to cubase to do my editing then export back as a midi file which is not ideal being that reaper is almost perfect for me in most other features
does any one have a work around yet?
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Old 02-22-2012, 02:16 PM   #103
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Can someone repost Adam Wathan's dupe macro steps, they seem to be invisible to me, perhaps they were images that don't exist anymore?
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Old 11-05-2012, 09:52 PM   #104
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I was always trying to create something as close to PT duplicate feature. This is where I ended up:

SWS: Select only track(s) with selected item(s)
Edit: Copy items/tracks/envelope points (depending on focus) within time selection, if any (smart copy)
Item navigation: Move cursor to end of items
Go to end of time selection
SWS/AW: Paste

Seems to work just like Pro Tools. Has anyone improved on this?
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Old 07-28-2017, 09:46 AM   #105
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I was always trying to create something as close to PT duplicate feature. This is where I ended up:

SWS: Select only track(s) with selected item(s)
Edit: Copy items/tracks/envelope points (depending on focus) within time selection, if any (smart copy)
Item navigation: Move cursor to end of items
Go to end of time selection
SWS/AW: Paste

Seems to work just like Pro Tools. Has anyone improved on this?
Hmm, tried this an it just pasted it randomly towards the end of the track. Is there a way of recreating Studio One's duplicate feature? Theirs figures out smartly where it should go depending on the positioning of multiple selected items, or it just pastes it immediately after the single selected item.
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Old 07-28-2017, 12:01 PM   #106
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Hey StuhRAH,

Did you try mpl's Script: Script: mpl_Smart duplicate items grid relative.lua ?
When you have ReaPack installed and synchronised, this Script should be in your Reaper Action List.

Hope this helps you.

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Old 07-28-2017, 01:27 PM   #107
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Hey StuhRAH,

Did you try mpl's Script: Script: mpl_Smart duplicate items grid relative.lua ?
When you have ReaPack installed and synchronised, this Script should be in your Reaper Action List.

Hope this helps you.

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Thanks, that's perfect! I didn't actually have ReaPack installed so there's a lot more useful actions I'm sure will come in handy!
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Old 07-28-2017, 01:39 PM   #108
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Aha, good 4 U !

Yeah, ReaPack adds dozens and dozens (if not hundreds) extra Actions to Reaper, which extends the already great functionality in Reaper even way more.

Insane stuff, mostly not find in other DAWs, for free !
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Old 08-10-2017, 03:24 PM   #109
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Aha, good 4 U !

Yeah, ReaPack adds dozens and dozens (if not hundreds) extra Actions to Reaper, which extends the already great functionality in Reaper even way more.

Insane stuff, mostly not find in other DAWs, for free !
It's incredible just how much there is to customize, no other DAW comes close for sure! It would be cool if this script could either follow grid visibility (not snap to 16ths if only quarters are visible, say) or do as Studio One does and take into account the other selected items (if you have more than one selected) and duplicate according to their relative distance, so the duplication is "smart".
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Maybe try this:

Open Action List.
Put this in the search field: zoom grid

You will now see another great mpl script:
Script: mpl_Zoom horizontally, change grid relatively, preserve grid visibility and snap state (mousewheel).lua

Assign this to your mousewheel.
Now, whenever you move your mousewheel, you zoom in or out horizontally and the Grid value will follow.
So let's say you had your Grid set to 1/8.
Moving your mousewheel can let you zoom in and the mpl script will now automatically change the Grid to 1/16.

About the mpl smart duplicate script:
For me, it does work on multiple selected Items, so the script will duplicate the selected items but keeping their relative start positions..
For you not ?

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Old 09-07-2017, 04:20 AM   #111
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Maybe try this:

Open Action List.
Put this in the search field: zoom grid

You will now see another great mpl script:
Script: mpl_Zoom horizontally, change grid relatively, preserve grid visibility and snap state (mousewheel).lua

Assign this to your mousewheel.
Now, whenever you move your mousewheel, you zoom in or out horizontally and the Grid value will follow.
So let's say you had your Grid set to 1/8.
Moving your mousewheel can let you zoom in and the mpl script will now automatically change the Grid to 1/16.

About the mpl smart duplicate script:
For me, it does work on multiple selected Items, so the script will duplicate the selected items but keeping their relative start positions..
For you not ?

Warm Regards.
Thanks for the tip! I'm using grid snap settings follow grid visibility, would this script work differently?

Also, I *think* it might have to do with the swing settings? I'm not sure if the swing values I'm using might cause a disruption?
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Old 09-21-2017, 11:23 PM   #112
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Could someone try it with swing on and tell me if it works properly? Mines all offset by some amount.
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Hi. It makes me laugh. This post is ancient now.
But.... Did the people here ever realise the creator of reaper
replied to above posts ? Mmmm

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