Reference Guide

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Dialog Reference
Fit to Time dialog
Skip All. Click this button to skip all missing audio files. When you skip all missing audio files, you
project opens without those pieces of missing audio.
Search. Click this button to begin a search of all available hard drives for your missing audio file.
After locating the file Options. You can choose to either move an audio file to the project’s audio
data folder, copy an audio file to the project’s audio data folder, or leave an audio file in its current
folder.
Fit to Time dialog
The Process > Fit to Time command opens the Fit to Time dialog box, which you can use to
stretch or shrink a selection so that it ends at a specific time, expressed in either measure:beat:tick
(MBT) or hours:minutes:seconds:frames (SMPTE) format. This command gives you a choice of
modifying the events or modifying the underlying tempo. This is useful when you want to alter a
portion of a project to have an exact length. The start time of the selection does not change, but the
end time is altered as necessary to fit the required time interval.
Audio can be stretched or condensed up to a factor of 4 (e.g., it can be shrunk to as little as 25
percent of its original length, or expanded to as much as 400 percent of its original length).
The Fit to Time dialog box has the following fields:
Original Time Span
This field lists the beginning location of the selection (the From value), and the ending location of the
selection (the Thru value). You can toggle between MBT format and SMPTE format by clicking the
Format button.
Adjust to End at New Time
Enter a value into the New Thru field of the new location where you want the selection to end.
Modify by Changing
Choose how you want to change the selection to change its duration. Usually, you change the
Tempo Map; this method preserves the note durations and bar lines of your project. Choose from
these options:
• Tempo Map. Choose this option to change only the tempo(s) of the selection, leaving note
durations and their relationships to bar lines unchanged.
• Event Times. Choose this option to change the starting and ending times of all events in the
selection, leaving the tempo(s) unchanged. This option is not available if any selected data
contains a Groove clip.
• Stretch Audio. Choose this option to cause any audio data in the selection to stretch or shrink
to fit the new end time. This option has no effect on Groove clips.
• Type (disabled unless Stretch Audio is checked). (this is a SONAR Producer feature only)
choose options based on the source material: single voice or instrument versus a group of
instruments (ensemble or polyphonic), and how long you want to wait for processing to finish: