Reference Guide

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AudioSnap (Producer and Studio only)
Fixing timing problems in audio clips
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. Select the Smart tool in the Control Bar.
2. Assign the track’s Edit Filter control to Audio Transients.
Audio clips display transient markers and the AudioSnap palette appears.
3. 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” on page 356.
4. Select only the kick and snare clips.
5. On the AudioSnap palette, set Resolution to 1/16.
6. Select only the drum overhead track.
7. 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.
8. Select all three drum tracks.
9. 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.