Mar 4, 2018
Custom actions are incredibly useful, and this Reaper tutorial
shows you how to create them. A custom action allows you to string
together a number of actions and combine them so that with the
press of one keystroke, a number of actions can be performed at
once.
I found that when editing podcasts, I was often dropping the end
marker of a time selection, then moving back to a point prior to
the time selection and pressing the keystroke to play, skipping
time selection. This previews the edit. I decided to combine these
keystrokes into one action, and in this tutorial I show you the
process so you can create similar custom actions, that assist you
with your own workflow.
You can create a custom action by entering the action list with F4,
and moving to the first “New” button. Press this and it will bring
up a dialog to create a new custom action. In this dialog, you will
find two tables, an edit field for the action name, an edit field
for the filter and a couple of check boxes.
You need to create a list of actions in the second table from those
in the first table. Use the filter text box to narrow down the list
of available actions in the first table. find the action you want
to add and on Mac, use VO+Shift+Spacebar, Spacebar. On Windows With
NVDA, use the Insert+Numpad Enter. This will add actions to the
second table, and your custom action. Once you have all the desired
actions in the second table, and a name for your action, click the
Okay button.
All that is left now is to add a keyboard shortcut to invoke your
command. Your new custom action should be already selected in the
actions dialog, so find the “Add” button, click this, than type the
desired command followed by the Enter key.
With this you’re done and ready to be that much more efficient with
Reaper.