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Fixing timing problems in audio clips
AudioSnap (Producer and Studio only)
Fixing timing problems in audio clips
AudioSnap provides several ways to fix timing errors in audio clips:
• You can drag individual beats or groups of beats to new positions. This gives you complete
control over where each transient ends up.
• You can quantize to a particular note resolution. This can be a very quick way to fix a clip, if your
markers are fairly close to where you want them to end up.
• You can quantize to another clip’s beats, making the clips share the same groove.
• You can slip-stretch the clip, to make it fit a larger or smaller block of time. This is a very quick way
to adjust a clip that has good timing, but whose tempo may be a little different from the project you
want to use it in.
• You can combine techniques: slip-stretch a clip to fit a new tempo, then quantize or drag any
markers that are out of sync.
The following is a list of common timing problems and solutions:
• If the audio contains various timing problems, but you want to fix them manually instead of letting
AudioSnap fix them automatically, see “Adjusting the timing of a solo performance” on page 618.
This gives you complete control over every aspect of your audio, and allows you to manually drag
audio beats around to perfect the timing.
• If you need to fix a multi-track performance, such as a multi-mic drum kit or a full band, and you
need to maintain phase relationships between tracks, see “Adjusting the timing of a multi-track
performance while maintaining phase relationships” on page 619.
• If you want to synchronize the timing of clips on different tracks, you can fix this with AudioSnap if
the sync errors aren’t huge. For details, see “Synchronizing the rhythms of out-of-sync tracks” on
page 624.
• If you want to quantize audio to the project’s time ruler, see “To quantize audio to the project’s
time ruler” on page 625.
• If you want to quickly tighten up a performance in a project that already has a fixed tempo or
varying tempo map, see “Quantizing audio” on page 625. This is useful if you like the
performance, but the timing is off in a few places.
• If you want to extract the groove from one clip and apply it to another clip, see “To Groove
Quantize an audio clip” on page 626. You can extract a groove from both audio and MIDI clips.
• If you need to synchronize audio with the projects tempo map, see “Synchronizing audio and the
project tempo” on page 610.
See:
“Adjusting the timing of a solo performance” on page 618
“Adjusting the timing of a multi-track performance while maintaining phase relationships” on page
619