Reference Guide

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Fixing timing problems in audio clips

AudioSnap

AudioSnap’s Add Transients to Pool command and Split Beats into Clips command allow you to

slice your drum tracks at identical locations, so you can then drag or quantize whole clips without

stretching any audio. This method of aligning clips does not change the phase relationships between

the clips, as long as you move all the clips identically.

Let’s take a look at some multi-tracked drum parts, and see how to quantize them all in exactly the

same way. The following project uses 10 mics, including room mics and overhead mics:

1. Click the Transient Tool button in the Track View toolbar.

Audio clips display transient markers and the AudioSnap palette appears.

2. If necessary, edit each drum track’s transient markers so that there are no extraneous transients

(use the Threshold slider, disable some transients, move others, etc.).

3. Disable all the transient markers in the overhead mic and room mic tracks.

4. Select all the drum tracks.

5. Right-click any selected drum track and select Merge and Lock Markers on the pop-up menu.

6. All transient markers on all selected tracks are copied to each drum track, so all drum tracks

share identical transient markers. The clip positions are also locked.

7. On the Edit menu, point to Clip Lock and click Lock Position.

The clip positions are no longer locked.

8. Select a drum track that has steady beats throughout the song.

Note: The room mics and overhead mics are much farther from the drums than the close mics,

so the transients in their tracks occur a little later than the close mic tracks. Because you will

eventually split each beat into a separate clip, you only want to use the transient markers from

the close mic tracks to avoid cutting

off any transients.

Tip:

If there is not a single drum track that has steady beats throughout the song, you can create a

temporary guide track by bouncing all the drum tracks to a single track (select all the tracks, use the

Edit > Bounce to Tracks

command, select

Main Outputs

in the

Source Category

field in the

Bounce to Tracks

dialog, and click