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Old 12-18-2011, 03:54 AM   #81
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keyboard action passthrough issue. certain windows block keystrokes assigned to main screen actions. this is understandable, but there needs to be some sort of global passthrough options for those of us who know what we're doing.
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Old 12-18-2011, 03:57 AM   #82
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I hate having to have to consistently click on the arranger window to focus it so the spacebar will initiate play.
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Old 12-18-2011, 04:05 AM   #83
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Don't want to spoil your rant, Ivan, but that's not the takes system. It's "Overlapping items in lanes" - not that it makes matters any better.

Here's a pet peeve of mine, the infamous Snap Dance™:


Boogie.
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Caused me big trouble. (Why is the timing fukked up ???)
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Old 12-18-2011, 04:10 AM   #84
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Actually my biggest hate things was ...

...the super crashy x64 version when using lotsa 32bit plugins.

I wanted to go away from Reaper because I simply can't stand it when my DAW crashes when I do normal things like switching to another plugin window quickly.
Now I work with the 32bit version again and I'm slowly calming down as it seems way way more stable. Only got crashes now that I -THINK- are related to certain plugins in beta status.
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Old 12-18-2011, 04:26 AM   #85
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Don't want to spoil your rant, Ivan, but that's not the takes system. It's "Overlapping items in lanes" - not that it makes matters any better.

Boogie.
Yeah I know - just that little snippet reminded me....

Oh and I am not that keen on the way lanes etc are implemented either.

Makes you wonder why I still stick it out with Reaper... (big grin)
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Old 12-18-2011, 04:35 AM   #86
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MIDI :S
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Old 12-18-2011, 05:49 AM   #87
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missing samples dialogue on project start up is too small... and it shits me to no end. I have projects i cant finish cos I cant find/remember every last sample required.

REAPER media and files being strewn all over my drives because of its bizarre system of leaving crap everywhere.

it doesnt sound analog enough
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Old 12-18-2011, 03:41 PM   #88
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Old 12-18-2011, 04:40 PM   #89
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Reaper sounds too analog, not sterile and cold enough.....
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Old 12-18-2011, 04:42 PM   #90
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WAT?????

hehehehee

@nym: Yeah, I think I understand what you are saying. For example, I almost always use the transport controls on my midi controller for start/stop/record/loop because you have to click on the main view to get that stuff to work.

Or were you talking about something else?
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Old 12-18-2011, 05:01 PM   #91
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WAT?????

I almost always use the transport controls on my midi controller for start/stop/record/loop because you have to click on the main view to get that stuff to work.
Use "pass key to main window" action for all shortucts that should be active in MIDI editor and main view. It's a workaround, but it helps a lot.
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Old 12-18-2011, 06:07 PM   #93
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Use "pass key to main window" action for all shortucts that should be active in MIDI editor and main view. It's a workaround, but it helps a lot.
i guess im a dumberdummy i dont get it. how do you do this?
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Old 12-18-2011, 10:55 PM   #94
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1 - that it has set the bar so high, it can be easy to find fault with things

2 - the vague feeling that maybe that's becoming more common
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Old 12-19-2011, 02:55 PM   #95
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The new (v4) copy/paste functionality includes time selection. So if you copy
an item within the time selection, the whole length of the time selection
will be pasted from the Edit Cursor (what you refer to as 'locator') position.

You have two options, remove the time selection before copying by pressing
ESC, or remap CTRL+C in Actions menu to the other copy function, that ignores
time selection.

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removing the time selection with esc seems to work!
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Old 12-19-2011, 03:35 PM   #96
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@nym: Yeah, I think I understand what you are saying. For example, I almost always use the transport controls on my midi controller for start/stop/record/loop because you have to click on the main view to get that stuff to work.

Or were you talking about something else?
that's exactly right. and it sometimes makes sense. for stuff like SPACEBAR for instance, it wouldn't be nice if spacebar suddenly played/paused your reaper as you were typing something.

UNLESS of course that's what you WANTED because you assigned it to do that in the actions list. there are some hotkeys that you always, always always expect to behave a certain way w/out regard for whichever screen you're on. unfortunately there's no way in Reaper to assure that they will do so.

this is why i have a whole 2nd keyboard running into a whole 2nd computer. the keyboard is converted into MIDI notes which are then routed to the 1st computer (the one running Reaper). Reaper uses these midi notes to trigger the actions that i need to always have on hand regardless of the screen focus. so literally, the only way to solve this action-focus issue in Reaper is to bring extra MIDI hardware into the equation.


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Old 12-19-2011, 04:33 PM   #97
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I don't like the fact that Reaper provides no pencil tool for re-drawing waveforms or waveform peaks. Their pencil tool only allows you to copy items, period. Big deal. You can do that anyway with the copy/paste functions.

There are times when you want to get rid of clicks, pops, etc. by gently rounding out waveforms. Most other good DAWS have this feature. Why not Reaper? Instead, we have to split and cut things out, crop items, use cross fades or fade-ins/fade-outs, etc. That's OK, but why can't we re-shape wave forms at whatever point we want without resorting to the other options??

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Old 12-19-2011, 04:42 PM   #98
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Old 12-19-2011, 05:09 PM   #99
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I think we would all like to know what Justin, Christophe, and Schwa hate (see as a weak area) about Reaper.

I bet you all are tempted to answer despite your better judgment, do it, do it
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Old 12-19-2011, 05:10 PM   #100
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Actually I don't hate anything in Reaper but there are some things that I think could be improved on.

It would be great if we could get the play cursor to go back to edit cursor in the Midi Editor like it does in the arrange view:
http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=90618

I sure wish we had the option to record items/takes with autopunch that just recorded the time selected:
http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=87808

Normalize in Reaper needs some loveing care, we need the ability to normalize destructively without havng to glue:
http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=93150

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Old 12-19-2011, 05:15 PM   #101
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The inability to send keyboard commands to most VST/VSTi plugins, the devs know about it and it is really crappy
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Old 12-19-2011, 06:32 PM   #102
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there are some hotkeys that you always, always always expect to behave a certain way w/out regard for whichever screen you're on. unfortunately there's no way in Reaper to assure that they will do so.
Yes and these inconsistencies in effect force user error.

I think of them as Cakewalkian -- especially when left to accumulate. They're by far the main thing that drove me from Sonar - a decade of neglect dragged forward like un-shed skin.

Please don't let Reaper grow sloppy.

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Old 12-19-2011, 11:07 PM   #103
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Hey, at least they don't have to be bright white anymore. Kinda like your ugly girlfriend with make-up.

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Hi - I'm new to Reaper. Just a few days with the demo. Attempting to flee from Protools. So far I'm pretty blown away. I use a lot of VI's and dealing with rtas/32 bit has been a real drag. Reaper 64 is kicking ass!

How can I get rid of the white background in the FX windows? Also, is there anyway to have it so that when I click on the FX tab on the channel, it just opens the effect and not the larger window with the add/delete column on the left?

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Old 12-19-2011, 11:15 PM   #104
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During editing I use mystic power combination "F**K!" + Ctrl+Z much more often than PT/Logic!
Thats the only thing I hate in Reaper.
jtnyc I dont think you can. Maybe someday devs will implement this feature. But for now, If you use Windows, just change system skin.
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Old 12-19-2011, 11:58 PM   #105
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I don't like the fact that Reaper provides no pencil tool for re-drawing waveforms or waveform peaks.
Reaper is fundamentally non-destructuve, and re-drawing waveforms would be a destructive operation.

Some kind of an "open wave in external editor, close file to allow editing" function would be handy though. (is there one? I'm still quite new to Reaper)
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Old 12-20-2011, 12:13 AM   #106
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i guess im a dumberdummy i dont get it. how do you do this?
Open MIDI Editor, open actions window, search for action "pass key to main window", assign spacebar to it. If your spacebar is already assigned to "play/stop" in main window than it will work everywhere from now. You can assign more shortcuts for passing. I assigned metronome, record shortcuts, solo track, etc..
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Old 12-20-2011, 12:55 AM   #107
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Open MIDI Editor, open actions window, search for action "pass key to main window", assign spacebar to it. If your spacebar is already assigned to "play/stop" in main window than it will work everywhere from now. You can assign more shortcuts for passing. I assigned metronome, record shortcuts, solo track, etc..
Thanks Doc. Very helpfull.
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Old 12-20-2011, 12:57 AM   #108
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I don't like the fact that Reaper provides no pencil tool for re-drawing waveforms or waveform peaks. Their pencil tool only allows you to copy items, period. Big deal. You can do that anyway with the copy/paste functions.

There are times when you want to get rid of clicks, pops, etc. by gently rounding out waveforms. Most other good DAWS have this feature. Why not Reaper? Instead, we have to split and cut things out, crop items, use cross fades or fade-ins/fade-outs, etc. That's OK, but why can't we re-shape wave forms at whatever point we want without resorting to the other options??

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THANK YOU! I don't understand why cubase seems to be the only host that has this (roll)

Come on DEVS! This can't be that hard (is it????)
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THANK YOU! I don't understand why cubase seems to be the only host that has this (roll)

Come on DEVS! This can't be that hard (is it????)
This was the one thing I absolutely loved in the original ProTools.

But I assume you can still do this with the latest version?

Haven't used PT since that early "go" hands on....
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Reaper is fundamentally non-destructuve, and re-drawing waveforms would be a destructive operation.
No, it wouldn't have to be. Reaper could introduce a new filetype (.ReaDraw?) that would be named the same as the audio file being pencil-edited, with the index->value structure, so only the modified samples of the audio file would be written to this ReaDraw file. If that file is found in the folder with the audio file, then the modified samples would be used and displayed within Reaper. If not, you get the original values.

That's how you do non-destructive!
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Old 12-20-2011, 03:00 AM   #111
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keyboard action passthrough issue. certain windows block keystrokes assigned to main screen actions. this is understandable, but there needs to be some sort of global passthrough options for those of us who know what we're doing.
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Old 12-20-2011, 03:23 AM   #112
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There are some things I miss in Reaper (eg logical Midi editor, arranger + transpose track, groove quantize) but nothing I 'hate' (if there was I probably would have switched already).

But there are things I don't quite get, for example why we still haven't a proper search function (searching subfolders) in the Media explorer.
I know, often used phrase, but - doesn't seem too hard to implement.

But then again what do I know...
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Old 12-20-2011, 04:54 AM   #113
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that the fx tab in the project bay shows a 'bypassed' status when a plugin is actually offline... undercuts the usefulness of that column to not differentiate betw offline and bypassed.

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Old 12-20-2011, 05:43 AM   #114
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No hate but it IS frustrating that there is still no handy, integrated notation editor.
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Old 12-20-2011, 05:44 AM   #115
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that's exactly right. and it sometimes makes sense. for stuff like SPACEBAR for instance, it wouldn't be nice if spacebar suddenly played/paused your reaper as you were typing something.
A simple solution to that prob would be for it to recognize that you are typing characters in and then not pass through in that situation. Or for it to be better integrated so you're not "passing through" at all. The spacebar thing is definitely an annoyance for me, esp for things like auditioning samples.
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that the fx tab in the project bay shows a 'bypassed' status when a plugin is actually online... undercuts the usefulness of that column to not differentiate betw online and bypassed.
This is annoying, true. It happens also in toolbars.

1. There are icons that never update their status correctly. If you make button "FX ONLINE" with action "Toggle FX online on selected tracks" - it will never update its status according to track.

1b. Another example - this time with global action: "Toggle automatic record arm for all tracks" - it never updates correctly. It's annoying as hell.

2. And the second thing i really HATE in Reaper is it's take system - it's totally unusable with MIDI, because old takes are splitted during recording new takes. This bug made me not using "record takes" anymore.

3. No MIDI quantize setup dialog in main window!!!

4. Not everything is skinnable - Reaper's look is inconsistent.

5. "FX Add" dialog does not follow track selection - It's impossible to have dockes FX ADD dialog, that just shows FX list so we could select any track to put new FX with double click... We have to open and close "FX add" dialog all the time. Annoying.

6. No "Monophonic" MIDI action that shortens notes that overlap, so we could fast edit parts of solo instruments (trumpet, sax, bass, flute, solo violin, etc.)
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2. And the second thing i really HATE in Reaper is it's take system - it's totally unusable with MIDI, because old takes are splitted during recording new takes. This bug made me not using "record takes" anymore.
See if this helps: Under Options, the submenu 'New recording that overlaps existing media' has an option for 'Creates new media items in separate lanes (layers)'.

I found that setting to be a way around certain behaviors re: takes splitting/overlapping.

(also ps.... this is an interesting thread... i know the OP meant 'hate' affectionately... it really is hard to hate on reaper... though it def has its grrr-inducing aspects....)
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5. "FX Add" dialog does not follow track selection - It's impossible to have dockes FX ADD dialog, that just shows FX list so we could select any track to put new FX with double click... We have to open and close "FX add" dialog all the time. Annoying.
Hmmm. I use FX Browser as docked and it works well. But I'm not selecting the track itself - I'm clicking on the FX button of the track I want to add the FX to, and it works exactly as I want it - adds the FX to the track I clicked the FX button on. I never add FX from the FX window itself (as I use effects unattached from the main FX window of the track).


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See if this helps: Under Options, the submenu 'New recording that overlaps existing media' has an option for 'Creates new media items in separate lanes (layers)'.

I found that setting to be a way around certain behaviors re: takes splitting/overlapping.
Yes, I know that we can record items instead of takes. The question is: so what are takes for? For nothing? Takes system is very nice in Reaper, but this single bug makes it unusable for me.
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