Preparing target file with CSV: zoning misalignment (Reaper example)

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#1

Hi all,

With this CSV file, you can define zones in Reaper that help you align your target.wav file when using the default input.wav AIDA and MOD Audio are offering you.

Though, I’m having issues with importing the CSV.

Process in reaper: (latest version now: 7.36)

1. set timeline to samples: rightclick on timer:
image

2. View → region/marker Manager

3. in regio manager; “options” → import (replace) → select the CSV

This is where it goes awry; the time stamps are not in samples so the zones are awfully out of place and I can’t force them into sample notation.

  • I tried sws en Reapack,
  • I tried changing the values,
  • I tried manually making them from scratch…
  • I just cant get it to do samples.

The default CSV looks like this, it defines the zones, expressed in SAMPLES

#,Name,Start,End,Length,Color
R1,samplerate,0,48000,48000,FFFF00
R2,noise,0,6000,6000,FFFF00
R3,blips,12000,36000,24000,FFFF00
R4,nam_train,50000,8160000,8110000,FF0000
R5,nam_val+test,8160000,8592000,432000,00FFFF
R6,_train,8592000,14523000,5931000,FF0000
R7,end,14523000,14523032,32,FFFF00

Workaround
As a workaround, I asked ChatGPT to remake the CSV but use time instead of samples, based on the sample rate.

#,Name,Start,End,Length,Color
R1,samplerate,0.000,1.000,1.000,FFFF00
R2,noise,0.000,0.125,0.125,FFFF00
R3,blips,0.250,0.750,0.500,FFFF00
R4,nam_train,1.042,170.000,169.646,FF0000
R5,nam_val+test,170.000,179.000,9.000,00FFFF
R6,_train,179.000,303.000,123.688,FF0000
R7,end,303.000,303.001,0.0007,FFFF00
#2

Allright so to clarify the CSV file describes your Dataset, so that instead of it being implemented in code or in a structured data format, you can import this file in Reaper and adjust the regions to fit your own Dataset file. You are supposed to modify it only if you want to experiment with a custom Dataset, not in other cases.

First of all import this file in Reaper, where you are working at 48kHz samplerate (just for the example)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TNpaPPc9tdCu6OA1VETWvufc7wG2nQTJ/view

at the very beginning of the timeline (just assure the cursor is at 0 or click |< ). Then set timeline

to samples, as described by @LievenDV.

Finally, import the regions in the CSV file using View → Region/Marker Manager window.

I don’t have issues in following those steps, but if you can replicate the issue from @LievenDV then it

would help us fixing the doc. Thanks!

@spunktsch ^^

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