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Old 05-27-2020, 10:27 PM   #1
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Default Pooled area selection (a kind of FL Studio pattern-like editing)

As we are going to have an area selection possible soon I would like to develop the idea of this functionality.

All the people switched to Reaper from FL Studio are missing the ability to edit drums in a pattern way - when you change a pattern once and got the same change in all the copies. Such thing is possible in midi editing - pooled midi items. But if you are working with one shots directly in the arrangement view, not using samplers, it is not possible and sometimes annoying to edit repeating parts.

So the concept is...

1. Making possible to save area selection in a memory (creating a pattern).

2. When you copy or duplucate this selection, Reaper remember them as copies of a particular areas.

3. Making changes in one selection automatically spreads them to all the remembered copies.

4. Certainly you can make one of the selection unique - like unpooling the midi item.

5. And you can make several dependent groups of areas (patterns). They could visually differ by color of the border.


That would be a total killer feature making one-shot arranging much faster without need of midi and sequencers!
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Old 05-27-2020, 11:45 PM   #2
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+ 1.

This is - of course - an old request.

At your point 3: In order to avoid confusion this should
be done by a visual representation, thus by "a box". The
feature requests are:

"Pooled Boxes" with some pictures

"Referenced objects" by Joystick
"Repetitive structures" general considerations

"Item Patterns" by Ivannn Bennnettt - with 3 "n" + 3 "t"

"Meta-Items" by andyp24

"Edit copied regions together" by poetnprophet


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Old 05-27-2020, 11:55 PM   #3
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Yeah, I know. I've been asking for this thing sone years ago too. But our feature request could get a second breath now with the up-coming area selection/copy/paste functionality.
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Old 05-28-2020, 03:48 PM   #4
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... But our feature request could get a second breath now
with the up-coming area selection/copy/paste functionality.
I hope so too!
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Old 05-31-2020, 02:40 AM   #5
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One additional remark:

Since the current "Area-Selection" was postponed - for
whatever reason - my suggestion for improving Reaper
would be: Why not take small steps?

By this I mean: To make these essential modularity + repetitive
structures possible, it is actually sufficient to create a
"box" only for audio items! So only for one track, and the
audio items contained on this track (for all lanes!) you can
"draw" a box. And this box can then be moved, copied or even
pool-copied as a whole.

This initially simple feature of the "Audio-item-Box" would
enable Reaper to arrange everything modular and referenced.

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