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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”
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”
• 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”
• If you want to quantize audio to the project’s time ruler, see
“To quantize audio to the project’s
• If you want to quickly tighten up a performance in a project that already has a fixed tempo or
varying tempo map, see
on page 671. 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
on page 672. You can extract a groove from both audio and MIDI clips.
• If you need to synchronize audio with the projects tempo map, see
See:
“Adjusting the timing of a solo performance”
“Adjusting the timing of a multi-track performance while maintaining phase relationships”
Summary of Contents for sonar x3
Page 1: ...SONAR X3 Reference Guide...
Page 4: ...4 Getting started...
Page 112: ...112 Tutorial 1 Creating playing and saving projects Saving project files...
Page 124: ...124 Tutorial 3 Recording vocals and musical instruments...
Page 132: ...132 Tutorial 4 Playing and recording software instruments...
Page 142: ...142 Tutorial 5 Working with music notation...
Page 150: ...150 Tutorial 6 Editing your music...
Page 160: ...160 Tutorial 7 Mixing and adding effects...
Page 170: ...170 Tutorial 8 Working with video Exporting your video...
Page 570: ...570 Control Bar overview...
Page 696: ...696 AudioSnap Producer and Studio only Algorithms and rendering...
Page 720: ...720 Working with loops and Groove Clips Importing Project5 patterns...
Page 820: ...820 Drum maps and the Drum Grid pane The Drum Grid pane...
Page 848: ...848 Editing audio Audio effects audio plug ins...
Page 878: ...878 Software instruments Stand alone synths...
Page 1042: ...1042 ProChannel Producer and Studio only...
Page 1088: ...1088 Sharing your songs on SoundCloud Troubleshooting...
Page 1140: ...1140 Automation Recording automation data from an external controller...
Page 1178: ...1178 Multi touch...
Page 1228: ...1228 Notation and lyrics Working with lyrics...
Page 1282: ...1282 Synchronizing your gear MIDI Machine Control MMC...
Page 1358: ...1358 External devices Working with StudioWare...
Page 1362: ...1362 Using CAL Sample CAL files...
Page 1386: ...1386 Troubleshooting Known issues...
Page 1394: ...1394 Hardware setup Set up to record digital audio...
Page 1400: ...1400 MIDI files...
Page 1422: ...1422 Initialization files Initialization file format...
Page 1463: ...1463 Misc enhancements New features in SONAR X3...
Page 1470: ...1470 Comparison...
Page 1518: ...1518 Included plug ins Instruments...
Page 1532: ...1532 Cyclone Using Cyclone...
Page 1694: ...1694 Beginner s guide to Cakewalk software Audio hardware sound cards and drivers...
Page 1854: ...1854 Preferences dialog Customization Nudge Figure 518 The Nudge section...
Page 1856: ...1856 Preferences dialog Customization Snap to Grid Figure 519 The Snap to Grid section...
Page 1920: ...1920 Snap Scale Settings dialog...
Page 2042: ...2042 View reference Surround panner...
