Reference Guide

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AudioSnap
Fixing timing problems in audio clips
transient markers on the drum tracks are progressively earlier as the measure goes on (the
drummer is rushing).
Our job is to align the drum hits with the piano hits so that the drum and piano tracks in time all the
way through the measure.
1. Click the Transient Tool button in the Track View toolbar.
Audio clips display transient markers and the AudioSnap palette appears.
2. Select the three drum tracks and make splits right before and right after the area you want to edit.
For details, see To Split Clips into Smaller Clips.
3. Select only the kick and snare clips.
4. On the AudioSnap palette, set Resolution to 1/16.
5. Select only the drum overhead track.
6. On the AudioSnap palette, set Threshold to 100% to ensure that there are no transients
detected. This step is necessary because the overhead track contains audio from both the kick
and the snare, and you want to make sure the kick, snare and overhead tracks are always
synchronized when stretching beats.
7. Select all three drum tracks.
8. Right-click any selected clip and select Merge and Lock Markers on the pop-up menu.
All three drum tracks now share the exact same transient markers, and each clip’s position is
locked.
Note: When you fix timing errors in multi-tracked drum parts, you typically need to adjust all
the drum parts in exactly the same way, because drum parts often contain “bleed”—the sound
of other drums in the track of the drum that you are trying to record. For example, if your snare
mic also picks up some of the hi-hat sound, you can’t move hi-hat clips around without also
moving the snare clips in exactly the same way, otherwise the sound of the hi-hat in the hi-hat
track will conflict with the sound of the hi-hat in the snare track.
Any time you have a track that contains “bleed” from other audio tracks, such as drum overhead
tracks or room ambiance tracks, you want to make sure the track has the same identical
transient markers as the individual close-mic tracks. The first step is to disable all transient
markers in the overhead/room track, then use the Merge and Lock Markers command to copy
the transient markers from all individual close-mic tracks.