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REAPER 7.0: What’s New
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Insert a new track after your recorded track. Expand its height to be similar to that shown above.
4.
Now record, one at a time, two takes of a second instrument, to go with your first track, both on the 
same track, one over the top of the other.  When finish, disarm the record button.
Your arrange view display should now be something like this (below right).
There’s a lot here to explore, 
including those buttons, but first, 
let’s make sure we understand 
what’s happened.
Two separate media items have 
been recorded and are displayed 
in lanes one above the other. By 
default, only one item will play 
back: there are options to 
change this, for example, to play a selection of lanes, or all lanes. They each exhibit all the properties and 
features of any media item, for example:
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You can double click on any item to access and edit its media properties, such as pitch, pan, etc. 
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Keep in mind that Options, Preferences, Appearance, Media will allow you, for example, to add a volume 
knob or FX button to items: you can then add FX and FX parameter envelopes. 
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You can split items and edit individual segments independently of each other.
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You can set the default height for fixed item lanes to small or big (Options, Preferences, Project, 
Track/Send Defaults).
Managing Items
In this next section, we will look at managing and editing your media items.
Right click over (or just below) either of the buttons to display a context menu. Note that 
this includes a set of three playback commands – Play only (selected) lane, Toggle 
playing lane and Play all lanes. Where there are multiple lanes, you can select any 
number of lanes to be played back by Ctrl click on the lane names.
When layering, the tricks and techniques described below are at your disposal.
Menu option/Mouse option
Comments
Select playback lane(s) from 
menu
Click on a lane’s button/Right click in lanes panel, select Play only 
lane, Toggle playing lane or Play all lanes from menu.
Select lanes to play
Click on first lane’s button then use Ctrl click to build selection.
Select items
Selects all media items in currently selected lane.
Duplicate items to new lane
Copies all media items in currently selected lane into a new lane. You 
might use this, for example, if you have “dry” recorded material and 
you want to experiment with editing and/or FX, using the original dry 
material as a reference point.
Recording, Record into lane
Recording, Record into first 
available lane
Recording, Layer new lanes
Select lane for recording and choose 
Recording, Record into lane from 
menu. A red dot will be displayed. Can be 
used, for example, for overdub recording, 
as shown here. You can also enable Play only this lane.
If Record into first available lane is disabled, a new lane will be 
created for every recording.
If Layer new lanes is enabled then new lanes will play alongside 
any lanes that are already playing: otherwise the new lane is the only 
one that will be played.
Toggle a track’s fixed item lane 
status on/off
Right click over the track’s control panel and use the toggle 
command Fixed item lanes on the context menu.
Add empty lane at bottom
Adds lane as last lane in track. Media items can be dragged from 
elsewhere and dropped inside this lane.
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