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Old 10-11-2021, 02:56 PM   #1
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Default working with media item lanes with takes/comping

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I am always looking for better ways to deal with takes.

media item lanes looks super promising!!!

a couple of issues or perhaps ignorance on my part (likely the latter):

- when exploding already existing takes it doesn't solve any misaligned takes. What I mean is that, just like regular takes - take 7 is a different height where each split was:



this might have to do with the fact that I exploded the takes in place.

I think if I RECORDED this way it would be a bit easier.

Maybe I could reimport the individual recordings into a track?

Is there a way to convert this nicely?

- is there a way to solo items that are vertically aligned? So if I split the items on a phrase, I can solo them just like takes.

- can we reorder them for a kind of swipe comping?
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Old 10-11-2021, 03:11 PM   #2
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ok actually my brain is destroyed from even trying to do this I am not even sure I'm making sense. Back to takes hahah
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Old 10-12-2021, 04:40 AM   #3
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Oof. That's making my head swim just looking at it! What I wouldn't give for a simplified comping/take system!
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Old 10-12-2021, 12:16 PM   #4
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Hopefully Reaper 7 will have a useful comping system
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Old 10-12-2021, 08:35 PM   #5
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I know people love PT Playlist but Logic’s quick swipe comping is pretty slick, too.

Comping and Logic Drummer are the only reasons I ever open Logic, though. Love reaper.
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Old 10-12-2021, 11:12 PM   #6
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Oh yeah Logics comping is great! Bitwigs comping also looks pretty great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DANWf9gG8Vg

Really something which would be nice if prioritized for Reaper
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Old 10-13-2021, 10:52 AM   #7
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Everything needed to do swipe comping already exists in Reaper, it just needs to be brought together to function in that way. The following tweaks would lead us to swipe comping:

1. Recording passes shouldn't create splits, but new contiguous lanes instead
2. Razor Editing should work per-lane, and there should be an action to "Set selected razor edit area as active take"
3. When doing Time Selection Auto Punch, the Time Selected area being punched should automatically set itself as the active take after you hit stop, but that entire recording pass should exist be in its own lane

Basically the "top layer" should have the splits, but the actual recording passes should remain whole.

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Old 10-13-2021, 10:56 AM   #8
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What's nice about how Reaper does Time Selection Punching is that you can punch in a word or phrase and it neatly sets itself as active.

What sucks about how it works is that you don't have easy access to the entire take, and instead are messing with crossfades and splits just to see what was "outside" the punch area. You could effectively have no idea that there's recorded material in a take because it's being hidden by the item bounds.

Lanes as I described them, along with Razor Edit promotion and auto-punch behaviour, would be as good as any other modern DAW.
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Old 10-13-2021, 01:57 PM   #9
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1. Recording passes shouldn't create splits, but new contiguous lanes instead
Does that mean that takes should be enhanced by featuring a start and an end definition outside of which volume would be -inf, i.e. a take "Mute" envelope for each of them ?
(Such things have been in depth discussed in the feature request forum.)
-Michael
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Old 10-19-2021, 09:38 PM   #10
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My solution was to add the script "Script: FTC_Record takes without new splits (extend items).lua" as a Startup action and it solved all problems. Waiting for the new take system to come out!
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My solution was to add the script "Script: FTC_Record takes without new splits (extend items).lua" as a Startup action and it solved all problems. Waiting for the new take system to come out!
oh THAT is interesting
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