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Originally Posted by Art Evans
You've hopefully seen my quick tip for turning on envelopes on a range or selection of tracks.
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Yeah, thanks, but I see that as an unnecessary step for something
that should be a default... I would think most people most of the time will end up doing envelope editing on each track, so I would think they should all be on from the start...
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The arrow points to a location on the envelope where there is no envelope point. The crosshair shows you have successfully targetted a point. Good system in my book.
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Hmm. Welll.....
The arrow indicating an area where there is no envelope point is redundant, because as per the editing process you're naturally looking to put one where there isn't already one in the first place;
If there *is* one already there - you can't set another one in the same place, right? The system won't allow it. So it shouldn't let you; in which case, there isn't the possibility for a false result, so likewise you don't need to be shown you have a "targeted" point. Once the cursor gets withing "range" of the envelope, you get the arrow - if you click you get your result, the change of cursor blocks my view of where the point actually is... The arrow curson is actually nice to show that you're "in range", but I'd prefer for it to change to a *dot*, for screen-accuracy sake.
After you set your first anchor point, most of the time you're going to want to do this:
1) Left click near envelope to "aquire" a "hooked" anchor;
2) THEN drag it to exactly where you want it.
3) release
..in order to make your own ADSR/fade.
What I don't like is that the big "4 way stop" crosshair covers up the point I select, and I'm not able to accurately place it. In CEP you just get the point, which is really the point IMO. <g>
A big problem I had with CEP was that the "attraction range" was miniscule and you had to be really tweaky with the mouse just to "grab" the envelope. It looks like Reaper's system works good in that respect... I just want to be able to see exactly what I've got so I can place it where I want.
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I'm interested in your experience that there's a limit to
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Yeah, I think it's something crazy like 16,000+ - but I've done it. <g>
There also seemed to be an issue with laying two (or more) .wavs on top of each other in one track "lane"; seems like if you did this too much, you'd end up with a crash of some sort. That seemed to be more of a danger if there were more edit points...
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One of the very neat things about Reaper is that its project (= CE session) files are just text files.
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That *is* very cool...
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pretty obvious. I'd be surprised if there was a low limit to the number of points on an envelope as they are simply a list in the project file,
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Hmm. If Syntrillium did the same thing, I could see them using a smaller variable not expecting it to go beyond a certain point, for memory reasons. "who is going to need that many edit points?"... <g>
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The current possibilities are listed in "Envelope editing modifiers" in the keyboard shortcut list.
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Ah, interesting, thanks for you help.