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Editing transient markers
AudioSnap
To insert a new transient marker
1. Click the Transient Tool button in the Track View toolbar.
2. Hold down the ALT key and click where you would like to insert a new transient marker.
A new transient marker is inserted.
or
1. Disable the Snap to Grid button (or press the N key) if the place you need the marker is not on a
convenient snap location.
2. Select the clip or clips that need the marker.
3. Move the Now Time to the place where you want the marker.
4. Press CTRL+ALT+I.
The marker appears in the selected clip(s) and displays a hollow square to show that it is a manually
created marker:
To copy transient markers from one track to another track
1. Click the Transient Tool button in the Track View toolbar.
The AudioSnap palette appears and all audio clips show transient markers.
2. Select the target clip (the clip that you want to copy markers to) and drag the Threshold slider in
the AudioSnap palette until all transient markers are disabled.
3. Select both the source clip (the clip you want to copy markers from) and the target clip.
4. Right-click either of the selected clips and select Merge and Lock Markers from the pop-up
menu.
The transient markers on the source clip are copied to the target clip.
To enable/disable transient 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 several ways to disable/enable the transient markers in a selected clip:
• The Resolution drop-down list in the AudioSnap palette. The selected Resolution value
lets you disable markers based on their time location. This clears out unwanted markers to make
editing easier. Larger values create a bigger time window, based on musical time values, which
Note: You can also add markers at Pool lines with a single command. See “To add markers at
Pool lines” on page 398.