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Fixing timing problems in audio clips
AudioSnap
Editing transient markers
Using the AudioSnap palette
Synchronizing audio and the project tempo
Fixing timing problems in audio clips
Extracting MIDI timing information from audio
General editing
Using the Pool
Algorithms and rendering
Keyboard shortcuts
Fixing timing problems in audio clips
AudioSnap provides several ways to fix timing errors in audio clips:
• You can drag individual beats or groups of beats to new positions. This gives you complete
control over where each transient ends up.
• You can quantize to a particular note resolution. This can be a very quick way to fix a clip, if your
markers are fairly close to where you want them to end up.
• You can quantize to another clip’s beats, making the clips share the same groove.
• You can slip-stretch the clip, to make it fit a larger or smaller block of time. This is a very quick way
to adjust a clip that has good timing, but whose tempo may be a little different from the project you
want to use it in.
• You can combine techniques: slip-stretch a clip to fit a new tempo, then quantize or drag any
markers that are out of sync.
The following is a list of common timing problems and solutions:
• If the audio contains various timing problems, but you want to fix them manually instead of letting
AudioSnap fix them automatically, see Adjusting the timing of a solo performance. This gives you
complete control over every aspect of your audio, and allows you to manually drag audio beats
around to perfect the timing.
• If you need to fix a multi-track performance, such as a multi-mic drum kit or a full band, and you
need to maintain phase relationships between tracks, see Adjusting the timing of a multi-track
performance while maintaining phase relationships.
• If you want to synchronize the timing of clips on different tracks, you can fix this with AudioSnap if
the sync errors aren’t huge. For details, see Synchronizing the rhythms of out-of-sync tracks.
• If you want to quantize audio to the project’s time ruler, see To quantize audio to the project’s time
ruler.
• If you want to quickly tighten up a performance in a project that already has a fixed tempo or
varying tempo map, see Quantizing audio. This is useful if you like the performance, but the
timing is off in a few places.