Reference Guide

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Markers and the snap grid
Arranging and editing
To Change the Snap Options
1. Click the down arrow in the Snap to Grid combo button or right-click on the Time Ruler and
select Snap Properties from the pop-up menu to display the Snap to Grid window
Figure 53. The Snap to Grid window
2. If you open the Snap to Grid window in the Track view, the window contains two tabs: one for the
Inline Piano Roll view (the PRV Mode tab), and one for the Clips pane (the Clips tab). Click the tab
of the area that you will be editing in.
3. Select one or more of the following resolution options:
• Musical Time. Note intervals (whole, half, etc.)
• Absolute Time. A number of samples, frames, or seconds set by you (choose the units in
the drop-down menu on the right)
• Events. Any data in a clip
• Clips. The start or end of any clip
• Markers. Any marker in a project
• Audio transients. These are represented by vertical grid lines, which you can display by
using the AudioSnap Palette.
• Snap to Audio Zero Crossings. This option automatically snaps edited audio clips to the
nearest zero crossing of the waveform, the point at which there is no volume, to minimize the
glitches that can happen when waveforms are spliced together.
4. Select Move To to align data to the grid, or Move By to move data by the grid resolution.
5. If you want to change the magnetic snap strength, or turn off magnetic snap, select one of the
buttons in the Magnetic Strength section.
6. If you’re using the Snap to Grid dialog in the Track view, you can leave it open or close it while
you edit. If you’re using it in another view, click OK to close the dialog.
All time selections and drag-and-drop editing operations use the new snap grid resolution(s).