Reference Guide

602 AudioSnap (Producer and Studio only)
Editing transient markers
To copy transient markers from one track to another track
1. Select the Smart tool in the Control Bar.
2. Assign the track’s Edit Filter control to Audio Transients.
The AudioSnap palette appears and all audio clips show transient markers.
3. Select the target clip (the clip that you want to copy markers to) and drag the Threshold slider in
the AudioSnap palette until all transient markers are disabled.
4. Select both the source clip (the clip you want to copy markers from) and the target clip.
5. Right-click either of the selected clips and select Merge and Lock Markers from the pop-up
menu.
The transient markers on the source clip are copied to the target clip.
To enable/disable transient markers
It’s sometimes necessary to disable some of the markers so you can extract a clearer groove, or
snap or quantize data to only the more important markers. Disabling markers is a way to thin the
data so that it creates a clearer time grid to work with. It also avoids stretching any transients that
you don’t want to stretch as a result of quantizing audio. Disabled markers are not deleted, but are
ignored by all AudioSnap functions. Only the head of a disabled marker remains visible.
There are several ways to disable/enable the transient markers in a selected clip:
• The Resolution drop-down list in the AudioSnap palette. The selected Resolution value
lets you disable markers based on their time location. This clears out unwanted markers to make
editing easier. Larger values create a bigger time window, based on musical time values, which
preserves markers that are closest to the displayed musical time value, and disables others.
• The Threshold slider in the AudioSnap palette. This slider works by disabling markers based
on their volume. Dragging the slider to the right creates a larger volume threshold, so that
transients that fall below the current volume threshold that the slider defines are disabled.
• The transient marker context menu. You can right-click a marker, and choose Disable from
the pop-up menu.
• Press CTRL+ALT+D to disable or re-enable all selected markers.
Note: The Resolution setting will only work reliably if the audio clip’s internal tempo map is
accurate. For details, see “Editing a clip’s tempo map” on page 613.
Tip: If you want to protect a marker from being disabled by the Sensitivity slider or the Threshold
slider, you can right-click the marker and enable the Promote option from the transient marker pop-
up menu. You can also promote a disabled marker to ensure that it never becomes enabled by the
Sensitivity slider.