User Manual

ADJUST BEATS
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5 Zoom the Sequence Editor so you can easily see
the beats in the waveform (you can even use the
Zoom tool in the time ruler).
6 In this simplified example, the downbeat of
measure two is shown above. With Adjust Beats, we
can simply drag the downbeat of measure 2 in the
time ruler over to the downbeat in the waveform.
You can grab measure two by either clicking on the
time ruler or clicking directly on the waveform
below it.
Figure 62-2: Using Adjust Beats to line up time ruler (the sequence’s
measures and beats) with audio. After dragging the down beat of
measure 2 in the time ruler, it now matches the audio.
7 Since the audio does not have a constant tempo,
we now need to use the same technique to line up
the beats in measure 1. First, we’ll switch the Adjust
pop-up menu in the Adjust Beats window to Beats
and choose the Move one beat at a time option.
Figure 62-3: Switching to beat adjustment, moving one beat at a
time.
8 Now we can line up the beats in measure one by
dragging them in the time ruler to match the beat
spikes in the audio waveform.
Figure 62-4: Adjusting the beats in measure 1. Above, beat four is
being adjusted, and below, the final results.
You can continue this process for any portion of the
audio, adjusting measures for larger scale changes
and using beat adjustment for fine-tuning.
Downbeat of measure 2
Downbeat of measure 2