Instruction Manual

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Enabling AudioSnap
AudioSnap
side of this button.
• Options—this button opens the AudioSnap Options button. This dialog
has its own help topic, which appears when you click its Help button.
• Align Time Ruler—enabling this button displays the Set Measure/Beat
at Now button, the Extract Timing button, the Expected Pulse menu,
and the Find a Steady Rhythm check box. These tools change the
tempo of your project to fit the selected audio.
• Set Measure/Beat at Now—this button opens the Measure Beat/
Meter dialog, which allows you to change the tempo so that a
certain measure or beat in a measure begins at the current Now
Time. The tempo will ramp up/down from the previous tempo
change in order to arrive at the required tempo.
• Extract Timing—this button changes the tempo so that the
transients in the selected audio will fall on the beats or parts of
beats that you choose in the Expected Pulse Duration menu.
• Expected Pulse Duration—set a value in this menu to specify what
note duration the enabled transient markers are supposed to
represent.
• Find a Steady Rhythm—if the clip has a steady rhythm whose
transients don’t all conform to a certain note duration, select the
note duration that describes the basic pattern, but also enable the
Find a Steady Rhythm check box. For example, if your clip is a bass
drum playing on every beat, but containing a short pickup note
before certain beats, this option can distinguish between the
sounds that are on the beat, and those that are pickups.
• Quantize—this button displays the Quantize button and the Groove
Quantize button.
• Quantize—this button opens the Quantize dialog, which has
options to quantize AudioSnap Beats and Audio Clip Start Times.
• Groove Quantize—this button opens the Groove Quantize dialog,
which has an option to quantize AudioSnap Beats.
• Quantize to Pool—this button displays the Quantize to Pool button, the
Quantize Strength slider, and the Quantize Window slider.
• Quantize to Pool—clicking this button quantizes the selected clips
to the Pool, using the settings from the Max Distance From Pool
menu, the Quantize Strength slider, and the Quantize Window
slider.