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Originally Posted by A.j.
Greetings,
This is my first post. I'm a Reaper virgin. Please be gentle.
I've been exploring the latest Reaper build for the last three days, and I'd love to know if there are any tutorials for audio editing? I come from a heavy Nuendo background (six years!), so it's a little hard to get the hang of the tool-less environment, as well as the way the takes function in lanes.
Anyway, I've already checked out Pipelineaudio's flash tutorials, and I'm working through the big manual PDF. But I'm looking for a more in-depth lesson on audio editing - how to use the lanes, comp vocals, dupe verses, that sort of thing.
Best,
Aj
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Lanes (takes in lanes) is implemented quite similar to Cubendo, except that: 1. splits affect all takes (if you have 4 takes a split gets them all) 2. resizing a split segment re-sizes all takes. 3. Fade ins/out also affect all takes. 4. moving a segment moves all takes.5. if you delete on of the take segments, then the remaining grow in size (top to bottom) to fill the space.
-coming from Cubendo, this was a little weird at first but it works well and is quite simple once you get the hang of it.
click on any segment of the take to make that segment
active - audible. selecting a take or a split out segment of one, and pressing [f2] will allow you to adjust it's properties (rename and such).
You can select items across multiple tracks and implode them to a single track as takes. (I find that if the items are not the same size, then gluing them to the same size helps out a lot here).
You can
explode the takes to individual tracks to access the full compliment of editing features on a take by take basis (fade in/out affect only the segment you are working on).
You can apply the FX in any track's chain as a new take.
editing:
I would recommend spending a little time in the prefs adjusting the zooming controls of the mouse wheel to your liking - modifiers for zoom in and out, scrolling up and down; how the arrange window behaves (i zoom with the cursor and selected track centered). This will assist in quickly homing in on the areas you want to edit, providing better smart cursor behaviour.
quick things to note (defaults I believe)
the cursor will automatically select the appropriate editing behaviour depending on placement over the item:
top right/left = fades
below that = re-size
top center = item volume
bottom left/right +[alt] = time stretch
somewhere in the middle of an item +[alt] = slide the contents left or right.
[ctrl]+drag copies the item
(there's probably more that I have forgot to mention.
Also Learn the key stroke building system: Prefs/General/Keyboard. this will let you create many editing features tailored to your liking
for example:
splitting beneath the mouse (with or without snap)
muting the item below the cursor.
and just about anything you can think of.
hope this helps a little.