View source for Reaper: Tab to Move to the Next Measure

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|<span style="color: blue">doa.</span>
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|<span style="color: blue">Reaper:</span>
|<span style="color: blue">v 4.22</span>.
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In Reaper the Tab key can be used to advance the play-head to the next measure. This is a useful hot-key to use when tempo mapping a song. The following steps show how to create a new Reaper action for this purpose:

# Click the '''Actions''' menu.
# Click '''Show action list'''.
# In the '''Actions''' window click the '''Section''' drop down menu and select '''MIDI Editor''' from the list.
# In the '''Filter''' text box enter the keyword '''measure'''.
# In the filtered list of results select '''Move edit cursor forward on measure''' (Figure 1).
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|style="text-align:center;"|'''Figure 1''': Locating the '''Move edit cursor forward on measure''' action in Reaper.
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<li>Click the '''Add''' button to define a keyboard shortcut (Figure 2).</li>
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|style="text-align:center;"|'''Figure 2''': Click '''Add''' button.
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<li>In the configuration window click the '''Special key (Enter, Tab, etc.)''' button (Figure3).</li>
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|style="text-align:center;"|'''Figure 3''': Click the '''Special key (Enter, Tab, etc.)'''<br/>button.
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<li>The '''Special key (Enter, Tab, etc.)''' button will now be greyed out and the '''Shortcut''' text field will be waiting for user input. Press the Tab key (Figure 4).</li>
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|style="text-align:center;"|'''Figure 4''': Press the '''Tab''' key.
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<li>Click the '''OK''' button to close the Keyboard/MIDI/OSC Input window.</li>
<li>Click the '''Close''' button to exit the Actions window.</li>
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Pressing the Tab key in Reaper will now move the edit cursor forward a single measure. This is helpful when tempo mapping songs with consistent time signatures as it moves the edit cursor close to where the next tempo marker should be placed.