Media Explorer
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The Media Explorer includes several handy features that make it easier for you to work with importing items.
The Media Explorer can be docked and undocked in the usual way.
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How to get there
The Media Explorer’s state is toggled between displayed and hidden with:
- View > Media Explorer
- Show Media Explorer command (See Actions Menu Bar)
- Keyboard shortcut Ctrl Alt X.
Amongst the Media Explorer’s useful features are these:
You can navigate to display the contents of any folder in its main window, by clicking on the small button shown in the above illustration just above and to the left of the column headed Name.
Shortcuts
You can add the currently displayed folder to the Media Explorer’s shortcut list by using the Media Explorer, Add current folder to shortcuts list command..
Transport bar
This small Transport bar lets you Play, Pause and Stop for the currently selected media item.
You can also click on any part of the displayed waveform to play back from there.
- Auto-play: If Auto play is enabled, you can preview any file displayed within the Media Explorer by clicking on its name. It will play automatically when selected. If autoplay is disabled, then preview can still be selected from the item's context menu.
- Start on bar:
- Tempo match: To avoid possible clashes of tempo, you can select an option (including Tempo Match Off and Tempo Match On) from the drop down list in the preview area.
- I/O button: you can direct the Preview output to any audio output.
Right click
Right clicking over the name of any media item will produce a context menu, whose choices include:
- Insert into project
- Insert into project as new track
- Insert as take in selected items .
- Multiple selections can be inserted by making the selection and then right-clicking. The Media screen in the Preferences window includes a setting to control the default behavior of multiple insertions.
Alternatively, you can just drag and drop, or double-click.
New in v4
- Select a portion of a media file to insert into a project
- Optionally loop and/or stretch the selected portion to fit the destination area and tempo
- Scroll and zoom the media peaks preview
- Control+alt drag the time selection to render a new cropped file to REAPER, the desktop, or a folder
- Control+alt drag the time selection to sampler plugins or other applications that support drag/drop
Options
The Options menu includes the command Use Windows Explorer for browsing. If enabled, this causes the whole Windows Explorer context menu to be available to you when right-clicking on an item.
- Use the mousewheel to adjust the display height of the media peaks.
