Reference Guide

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Using the Pool
AudioSnap
2. Right-click in the Clips pane and select Pool > Show pool lines on the pop-up menu.
To add the Time Ruler to the Pool
1. In the Snap to Grid dialog, set the Musical Time value to the resolution you would like to add to
the Pool.
2. Click the Transient Tool button in the Track View toolbar.
3. Right-click in the Clips pane and select Pool > Add MBT to pool on the pop-up menu.
The current Musical Time snap resolution to the pool, and also displays dotted pool lines in the
Clips pane. This can be useful as either a basic visual guide, or for adding the Musical Time to an
extracted groove, or to fill in any transients that may be “missing” in a syncopated or sparse
section.
To add transient markers at Pool lines
1. Make sure that the Pool contains markers from at least one clip, or from the Time Ruler.
2. Select the clips that you want to add markers to.
3. Right-click a selected clip, and choose AudioSnap > Apply AudioSnap Pool Transient
Markers from the pop-up menu.
Markers appear on the selected clips at Pool lines. When aligning clips on multiple tracks, it is
necessary to split and/or quantize all clips at the exact same position in order to avoid phase
problems when quantizing audio. In order to do so, it is necessary to establish a common, or
“master”, transient reference pool which can be applied to all tracks. The Apply AudioSnap Pool
Transient Markers command will use the transient pool as a reference, and insert identical transient
markers on all selected clips.
Groove Quantize and Quantize to Pool
You can use two kinds of groove quantizing on audio clips: the Groove Quantize command aligns
transients with a groove that’s on the Clipboard, and the Quantize to pool command aligns
transients with the Pool.
When you use the Groove Quantize command, you can align a clip with a pre-existing groove, or
you can extract a groove from another clip.
For information about extracting a groove, see To extract MIDI timing from an audio clip.
For information about groove quantizing an audio clip, see To Groove Quantize an audio clip.
Note 1: If a selected clip is not AudioSnap-enabled, choosing the Apply AudioSnap Pool
Transient Markers command will automatically enable AudioSnap for the clip.
Note 2: Adding markers at Pool lines can add a lot of markers to a clip. If you later decide that
you want to work with the clip’s original markers, you can remove only the markers that you
added by right-clicking the transient marker, and choosing Reset from the pop-up menu.