03 Creating and Working With Tracks.mp3

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Creating and working with tracks
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To create a new track in Reaper, you're going to want to hit CTRL T if you're on Windows,
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that'll be CMD T if you're over on the Mac.
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I'm being prompted for a track name, I'm going to call this first one
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Guitar and hit enter. Just going to rinse and repeat that to create a vocal track as well.
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Okay, now I've got two tracks in my track list.
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Up arrow will move me to the previous track.
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Down arrow will move me to the next track.
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If I want to rename either of these, I can move to the track that I want to rename
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and hit F2, type my new name in, let's say Six String Thing and hit enter.
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Now in Reaper, context sensitivity is a really important concept.
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With the vast majority of workflows, the most recent track that you move to
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is also going to be the track that's currently selected.
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But we do have a keystroke to query what's selected,
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and that's CTRL SHIFT SPACE or CMD SHIFT SPACE over on the Mac.
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So if I do that keystroke now to check what's selected,
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our new stupid track name is reflected. Jolly good.
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Let's take a look at how you can select multiple tracks.
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I'm going to create a third temporary track called Burner,
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because I'm only going to delete it in a second anyway.
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