Reference Guide

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Using the AudioSnap palette
AudioSnap (Producer and Studio only)
Toolbar section
• Bypass . This button enables or disables AudioSnap on selected audio clips.
• Copy as MIDI . This button saves the selected audio as a MIDI clip, which you can paste
from the Clipboard into a MIDI track. You select the MIDI note that the transients in the audio clip
will be converted to in the AudioSnap Options dialog, which opens when you click the Options
button.
• Split Beats into Clips . This button splits a clip at each transient marker into multiple clips.
• Clip Timebase (Absolute or Musical) / . There are two timebase settings for a clip in
SONAR:
• Musical (default) . Musical Timebase means the clip start position will follow Musical
Time (MIDI Tick).
• Absolute . Absolute Timebase means that the clip start time will follow Absolute Time
(SMPTE).
• Average Tempo. This list shows the average tempo candidates: original, 0.5x and 2x. SONAR
will do its best to detect the correct average tempo, but a clip can often have multiple potential
tempos (60 BPM, 120 BPM, 240 BPM, etc.). If SONAR is unable to detect a tempo, Average
Tempo will be set to Original, which is the project’s tempo at the location the clip was recorded or
imported. If you change the Average Tempo setting, all clip tempo changes are adjusted to scale.
This list also contains the Set Clip Tempo From Project command, which copies the project’s
tempo map to the clip’s tempo map. This allows the project’s measure boundaries to align with
the audio clip.
• AudioSnap Options . This button opens the AudioSnap Options dialog. This dialog has
its own Help topic, which appears when you click its Help button.
Tempo section
• Set Project Tempo From Clip . This button copies the clip’s tempo map to the project’s
global tempo map and automatically triggers the Clip Follows Project Tempo command. This
allows the project’s measure boundaries to align with the audio clip. The drop-down list lets you
specify at which resolution the clip’s tempo map should be copied to the project tempo. The
options are as follows:
• Beats
• Measures (default)
• Clip