Instruction Manual

388 AudioSnap
Quantizing Audio Clips
5. In the Change section, choose either AudioSnap Beats (if you’re
quantizing the beats within a clip), or Audio Clip Start Times (if you’re
just lining up the beginnings of clips).
6. Set any of the fields in the Options section that you want. The Options
section is described in the online help for the dialog, and also in the
Quantizing section of the Editing MIDI Events and Controllers chapter
in the online help.
7. Click OK.
The beats or clip boundaries that you quantized move to the resolution
boundaries that you chose.
Quantizing Tutorial
Let’s import a couple of audio clips, and fix some minor timing problems
with a kick drum clip:
1. Open a new project, and set the tempo to 130.
2. Use the File-Import Audio command, and navigate to the Tutorials
folder in the folder where you installed SONAR.
3. Select (Ctrl-click) both Hi Hat 16
THS 130.WAV, and KICK 8THS 130.WAV,
and click Open.
The two clips appear on separate tracks: Track 1 and Track 2 at beat 1.
4. Play the project, and listen to the timing. The kick drum is a little rushed
on the upbeats.
5. Enable AudioSnap on both clips by selecting them, and then right-
clicking one of the clips and choosing AudioSnap-AudioSnap Enable
from the popup menu.
The AudioSnap icon and transient markers appear on the clips, and the
AudioSnap palette appears.
6. Let’s zoom in a little so we can see all the markers on the clips.
7. Since the kick drum needs to align with the upbeats in the cymbal part,
let’s thin out our markers so that we only see the 8th notes: the kick
drum is OK the way it is, so, with only the cymbal clip selected, drag the
Sensitivity slider to the right until it reads 8th.
Now Ctrl-click the kick drum clip to select it. Your clips should look like
this: