Instruction Manual

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Transient Markers
AudioSnap
2. In the AudioSnap palette, make sure that the Show Transients button is
enabled.
Zooming Out
When you zoom out in the Track view, markers gradually disappear. This
dynamic thinning ensures that the Clips pane never gets overwhelmed with
transient markers. An ellipsis (three dots) is displayed next to any marker
that is adjacent to any hidden markers. The ellipsis basically tells you that
there are more markers than you can currently see—zoom in to see them.
See:
Disabling and Enabling Markers.
Disabling and Enabling Markers
It’s sometimes necessary to disable some of the markers so you can extract
a clearer groove, or snap or quantize data to only the more important
markers. Disabling markers is a way to thin the data so that it creates a
clearer time grid to work with. It also avoids stretching any transients that
you don’t want to stretch as a result of quantizing audio. Disabled markers
are not deleted, but are ignored by all AudioSnap functions. Only the head
of a disabled marker remains visible.
There are three ways to disable/enable the markers in a selected
AudioSnap-enabled clip:
•The Sensitivity slider in the AudioSnap palette—this slider works by
disabling markers based on their time placement. Dragging the slider
to the right creates a larger time boundary, so that markers that fall
between the current time boundary that the slider defines are disabled.
•The Threshold slider in the AudioSnap palette—this slider works by
disabling markers based on their volume. Dragging the slider to the
right creates a larger volume threshold, so that transients that fall below
the current volume threshold that the slider defines are disabled.
•The Marker Menu—you can right-click a marker, and choose either the
Enable or Disable commands from the Marker menu.
If you want to protect a marker from being disabled by the Sensitivity slider
or the Threshold slider, you can right-click the marker and enable the
Promote option from the Marker menu. You can also promote a disabled
marker to ensure that it never becomes enabled by the Sensitivity slider.