Editing Real Drums in Reaper (Slip Editing)

I'm going to show you my method of time aligning real drums using a slip editing technique.

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[SimbaWeTidyUp]

You're a great teacher - great balance of detail and pace

[marrowsband]

Do you know if there is a way you can make these actions conditional? Like a toolbar button that engages these specific custom actions?

I have a similar system for editing left to right and deleting dead space, where the left of split is selected so I can delete after my second split.

[pud]

This is super awesome. Makes life easier (and teaches some Reaper options along the way). Thank you.

[allanpavani]

Thanks for that video, bro! Life saver!

[mikeskis]

You need more likes man, this is important stuff for upcomg producers

[mangybones]

Great video, thanks man! I've been trying to get my workflow quicker and picked up a few extra tips from this.

[DanSeipel]

Nice! Never used this before but I might try it. I usually use dynamic split then snap to grid.

[larsjuul]

Fantastic Tex, great handy way to edit drums, I only have one problem, and that is, when i´m splitting track and move a clip on one side of the split the other side follows why is that?
Tkanks
Lars

[Scott-fvnt]

The best explanation and how to video! Thank you! How can I reach you on a couple questions with adding or cutting unwanted drum hits? Mostly kick trigger, I play metal and the high bpms sometimes I run into this. Thanks!

[nathanswavely]

I set up my action and mouse modifier how you have it in the video, but when I alt-click and drag on an item, it doesn't actually split the item first. I have to release my mouse to actually perform the split, so I'm unable to accomplish the workflow you have in the video. Am I missing something?

[jeffsalvatore]

When I make a split and want to slip edit the items selected, it's moving the items before the split as well. Anyone know how I can move just the items selected?

[therealcodyjames]

I’m doing this but it’s messing with my overheads and bleed. Transitions are not smooth at all.

[ericcrowley]

Hey there, I've been trying this method, but with alt S, but for some reason when I slice it creates a big auto crossfade. I've turned auto cross fade off and it still does it, i'm stumped

[alexandruciobotaru]

I have done the first steps but the part where you can zoom in and out wherever the mouse cursor is doesn't work when I try it. I have Reaper v7.09. Is that the reason?

[voodoochili]

Thanks for sharing this. Can this process be done while preserving takes? I'm frustrated with Logic, where you have to commit and unpack all multi-mic drum tracks to new tracks before Flex Time can be used.

Ultimately I'm looking to retain the most flexibility from tracking to final product without committing to / unpacking tracks before making timing edits... does Reaper allow that scenario?

[jarreldrakeabugan]

Great vid! I'm just wondering how you set your split to automatically crossfade?

[JonathanCook]

ive always used stretch markers. I think im picking up what youre putting down

[SonicSoundofDoom]

Whenever I record drums in reaper it’s just a straight line across 🤷🏻‍♂️