How to Move all Tracks to a Grid Line- Forgot to Count-in a recording

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Im not certain that I'm using the correct terminology here, but I can not figure out (yes, I'm looking in the 404 page manual) how to snap all the recorded tracks to a grid line .

I've included a picture. What I would like to accomplish is to move the beginning of the scratch guitar track, as shown by the mouse cursor, over to right and onto one of the grid lines along with the other recorded tracks.

Let me explain what happend and perhaps someone has a better suggestion.

This song a has a guitar intro prior to verse. I typically count in a vocal or instrument on scratch tracks, so that when the keeper track get laid down I know when to start. In this case I failed to count in the guitar. I layed down a scratch vocal, and scratch guitar. I then recorded a keeper vocal. I'm now to the point of wanting to record the keeper guitar, but since I have no count in reference I don't when to start.

So, if I can move all the the tracks to grid line further into the song, I should be able to use the grid lines as a time reference point and record a count-in on the material.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58200902/GUITAR PICS/Photo Dec 30, 10 08 31 AM.jpg
 
Why not just insert a certain amount of time? Put your grid lines in place as is, select the amount of time (that you want to add) at the beginning of the tracks you have, then Insert 'empty space at time selection'.
 
^Thatll probably work.

You can also right-click-drag to select all of the audio clips and then just drag them over till the guitar track starts where you want it. The others will maintain their position relative to one another.
 
MJB-

The problem with adding more time of ahead of it, is that it does not solve my problem....namely I forgot to count-in the song. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4....

So a solution that I thought of was to move the first note of the guitar intro directly onto a gridline time marker. That way I could overdub a vocal count-in by watching the gridlines.
Of course the other tracks would need to follow the movement of the guitar track for that to work.
 
Askcat-

I cant for the life of me right click and drag all tracks. Nothing happens.

If I were to move the first note of the guitar intro to align with a grid line, everything else would need to move exactly in relationship with that. Maybe I'm going about this all wrong and thier is a simpler solution to adding a count-in.
 
I'm not sure how adding time to the left of your selection is different from moving to the right, and I can't imagine why you can't select the items. Zoom out so you can see everything, right click on an area below all the tracks, and drag the lasso over everything you want to move. Or just click on that area where all the audio items are and hit Ctrl+A to "Select All".

You will have to eyeball the first note to be on the grid line, but you can drag it close, then zoom in, drag it closer, zoom some more...
 
Yeah, insert the time before your recorded tracks, you've got the grid lines for your count-in.
 
I'm not sure how adding time to the left of your selection is different from moving to the right, and I can't imagine why you can't select the items. Zoom out so you can see everything, right click on an area below all the tracks, and drag the lasso over everything you want to move. Or just click on that area where all the audio items are and hit Ctrl+A to "Select All".

I dont need to add time to the left. The downbeat does not begin on a timeline so I cant lay down another track with a count-in vocal using the the time lines as a reference. I just need to move 3 tracks simultaneuosly with the downbeat synched to a timeline. Ctrl+A does nothing. There is no lasso.

Yeah, insert the time before your recorded tracks, you've got the grid lines for your count-in.
Thats the problem. The downbeat is NOT on a timline, so I can't use them as a visual cue, and create a vocal count-in by watching the timeline markers.

No, you right click to select/highlight tracks. You left click to move them
No, right click opens a dialog box, and select track is not a choice. If I left click, and CTRL+F I can highlight the 3 tracks.

This picture may explain it. The 3 tracks that need to move are visible. The white triangle is where the downbeat is. I'm trying to move these 3 tracks begining with the white triangle over to the right where the marker 1 is. That would line evrything up on a timeline and I can use the visual cues of those timelines to dub in a vocal count-in.
 

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I've had some issues with right-click and drag to select myself. Sometimes it wants to open the context menu, but it's supposed to work to select. You know how in most of windows you can hold down the left mouse button and drag and you'll see like a shaded rectangle outlining the area you've described, and this selects any and all objects inside the rectangle? In Reaper you have to hold down the right mouse button to do this. Unless you've modified the settings somehow, it must work.

But you said you found a way to select all of the items. So... Drag the damn things over! It's not going to snap nicely without some more fucking around. Just drag it and eyeball. Like I said above, you can zoom in as far as you want to get as anally precise as you think you need.
 
Muddy T-Bone said:
INo, right click opens a dialog box, and select track is not a choice.
Click to expand...

No. Right click and keep it pressed down. Then drag your cursor over the tracks you want to highlight. Then, left click on those tracks while keeping your finger down and you can move them.
 
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