Edit live recording into individual songs

HI All. First time here. Recently downloaded Reaper to help me work on some live multi-track recordings. My band is using an Allen & Heath QU16 mixer for live gigs - and we're recording multi-track during each gig (straight from the mixer onto a hard disc). This means we have two multi-track recordings for each gig ie the first set and then the second set for the gig. Faced with having two very long recordings (typically each is over 1 hour) for each gig... I'd like to edit the recordings so that I have individual files for each song in each set (I've already downloaded the multi-track recordings from the external disc - and into my laptop). Is there an easy way of doing this? I'd like to chop the set recordings into individual songs (but still have them as multi-track)... then, later, mix each song down into a stereo MP3. All advice gratefully received! Thanks.

Easily done 

My general approach is to open a new project window tab (CTRL-ALT-N)& set up (empty) tracks that are laid out like the original recording project, or just make an empty template from the original project & put it in the new one. Then listen thru the recording & put markers (M) where the cuts will be. Select all the trax 'items' (R-CLICK-DRAG). Move the cursor to each marker & split all the trax (S). Select (R-CLICK-DRAG) all the items in a song & copy (CTRL-C) to the clipboard. Switch to the new empty project, select the 1st trak, & paste (CTRL-V) the items into their respective trax. It's important to 'GLUE' these items, & save as a new project name & subfolder. Then I usually select all the items in the (new) project & delete them & select the 1st trak, leaving it ready to receive the next song. Switch back to the original recording project, grab more trax from the next song, & repeat...

I render stems, and time selection, in the render dialogue. Just make sure you select the tracks, and select the section you want. Make it a bit bigger and trim the new tracks later. Then insert those rendered tracks into a new project. I'm using my new qu-16 for this as well. I've just been fiddling with a 2 1/2 hour recording!

Using Project Tabs is a good way to work. The problem with working on individual songs in isolation is they can sound odd when re-segued later -with tabs you can reference other parts of the recording and other WIPs/mixes as you mix. I tend to just lock the position of the item and work with the single source file set rather than glue the tracks. My source files are BWF wavs with timecode offsets, so I can re-align them if necessary. I'll put the projects for each set in one folder with the audio files in their subfolder. It can be very tedious to mix, but it can also be very rewarding. Some of my favourite sounds for the van are songs from live gigs I've engineered and recorded :) >

Good stuff here. And it's interesting to hear how others are working. Like others, I like to mix the entire performance as one unit. My FX and settings are almost always the same song to song. I do use some volume automation or sometimes I'll split a track and do some clip gain. I turn on "ripple editing" and edit spacing, but I think that it would be much easier to render the performance to stereo and do those edits last. At that point you could also load up the stereo render, trim off both sides of the individual song you want and do a "save as" to get that track.

In what order to all this?