Hi everyone
After using Ableton Live, I just finished my first complex track in Reaper (v4.15, 32bit, OS X Lion), and I noticed a few things that interrupt my creative workflow. If anyone could help me with these, I'd be very glad
1. Duplicate Time,
moving later items. I do electronic stuff, so I often need to duplicate the complete contents (items, envelopes, everything) of the current time selection. For example I decide a part in the middle of the song should be twice as long, but the second half without the hi-hats. I duplicate the part (everything behind that moves forward accordingly) and I delete the hi-hats in the duplicated area. Is this behavior possible in Reaper? I tried to create a custom action, but it doesn't work like I want it..
2. When I save my project for the first time and tick "Copy all media into project directory", it works, but the next time I open the "Save project as..." dialog, the default has become "
Move all media into project directory"! It took me a while to find this, I was confused because the WAV files had "disappeared" from my sample library. Is this how it should be? And how can I change it so it stays at "Copy"?
3. Copy & paste when the first item is not on the grid:
As you can see, the first item (on the left) isn't on the grid. Let's assume it's really in-between two lines, not on 32ths or something like that. When I want to copy & paste these items, I can't paste it in the right spot. When I use "Item: Paste items/tracks", the items will be pasted so that the first item is at the edit cursor, which is not what I need. I need a copy of those eight bars on this track, preserving the position of the items.
Any help is appreciated!