I frequently have to cut out bad takes, clicks, breaths etc. So, I have Reaper configured such that if I click on the bottom half of the track (the actual visible waveform) it automatically splits, and selects the section of track to the left.

Reaper Mouse modifier dialoge for "Media Item- Bottom Half"

So an edit goes like:

  1. Click the start of the edit.

  2. Click the end of the edit,

  3. Press delete.

[caption id=“attachment_151” align=“aligncenter” width=“772”]Editing a reaper take in three clicks. Editing a reaper take in three clicks.[/caption]

Super-fast editing.

Reaper is extraordinarily flexible.