Reference Guide

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AudioSnap (Producer and Studio only)
General editing
Splitting beats into clips
Clicking the Split Beats Into Clips button on the AudioSnap palette splits a selected
AudioSnap-enabled clip into new clips starting at every enabled transient marker. The main reason
you might want to do this is to align a clip with a new tempo or quantize it, without stretching the
audio. Once you split a clip at its transients, you can move the new clips by dragging or quantizing
so that they are aligned the way you want them to be. The advantage is that moving clips instead of
transient markers does not stretch any audio, so that the original sound quality is unchanged. The
possible disadvantage is that you can create gaps between the new clips when you move them.
However, the Quantize, Groove Quantize, and Fade Selected Clips dialogs all have an option to
automatically fill in the gaps. This is the Fill Gaps, XFade between Audio Clips option in the Fade
Selected Clips dialog, and is the Auto XFade Audio Clips option in the Quantize and Groove
Quantize dialogs. Filling the gaps is accomplished automatically by “rolling out” the first clip’s right
edge and the second clip’s left edge to create a crossfade. This option will often be used when
quantizing drum parts, which results in smooth-sounding audio without introducing phase problems.
To add markers at Pool lines
1. Select the Smart tool in the Control Bar.
2. Assign the track’s Edit Filter control to Audio Transients.
3. Make sure that the Pool contains markers from at least one clip, or from the Time Ruler.
4. Select the clips that you want to add markers to.
5. Right-click a selected clip, and choose Pool > Apply transient pool markers on the pop-up
menu.
Markers appear on the selected clips at Pool lines.
To split a clip at beats
1. Select the clip(s) that you want to split.
2. Press A to open the AudioSnap palette.
3. Click the Split Beats into Clips button .
The clip’s beats are split into separate clips.
Note: When you align 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. In order to do so, it is necessary to
establish a common, or master, transient pool that all tracks can reference. The Merge and
Lock Markers command will use the transient pool as a reference, and insert identical transient
markers on all selected clips.You can then use the Split Beats Into Clips button to split
clips at audio beats.