12.3 Crop to Selection and Remove Contents of Selection
When recording, it’s not unusual to end up with a period of silence before your song starts, and/or periods of silence at the end of your tracks, where you have allowed the recording to continue longer than necessary.
Kind: concept (user-guide-section) Chapter: 12 Managing The Overall Project Source: REAPER User Guide v7.70
When recording, it’s not unusual to end up with a period of silence before your song starts, and/or periods of silence at the end of your tracks, where you have allowed the recording to continue longer than necessary. You could fix this by slip-editing your tracks individually, then dragging and dropping them to the start of your timeline. A quicker way would be to Crop project to selection. This removes the unwanted portions. To do this, first click and drag along the background area in arrange view to make a time selection of the area that you want to keep. Then, right click over the Timeline and choose Crop project to selection from the menu. If you wish, press Esc when this is done to remove the time selection.
Tip: If immediately after cropping to selection (and before pressing Esc) you again right click over the Timeline and choose Zoom selection from the context menu (or use the shortcut keys Ctrl Numpad Plus your project will expand horizontally to fit the width of your Track View window.
Another situation might be in which you wish to remove a passage from the body of your recording without creating a “hole” in your project, or some tracks getting out of sync with others. In this case you can make the time selection in arrange view, then right click and choose Remove contents of selection (moving later items) from the context menu.