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The Clear All Button
Clicking the Clear All button clears all time edits
from the track, essentially restoring the timing
of the original audio.
NOTE: Unlike the Clear All function
described in the Pitch Editing Tools
section, the Time Control Clear All
function does not delete any tracked data, only
time edits.
ANOTHER NOTE: Also unlike the
Clear All function described in the
Pitch Editing Tools section, the Time
Control Clear All function is undoable, so there’s
no dire warning message when you click it.
If you inadvertently clear all your edits, don’t
panic. Just click the Time Control Undo button
and all will be well again.
Time Edit Tools
Auto-Tune 7’s time manipulation functions
provide an enormous amount of power over
the timing of your audio. But, along with power
and flexibility, one of our key design objectives
was to make the time shifting process
extremely easy to use.
To that end, we’ve designed all of that power
into two context-sensitive editing tools that
simply do what you need them to do when
you need them to do it. As a result, Auto-Tune
7’s time manipulation process is smooth and
intuitive, never breaking your creative flow with
the need to switch tools or remember some
command key to temporarily change function.
Here are the details:
The Move Point Tool
The Move Point Tool allows you
to select a range of audio and then
move a point within that range
forward or backward in time, compressing and
expanding the audio around it.
The Move Point Tool is context sensitive.
That is, it changes function (from selection to
moving) depending on what lies beneath it on
the screen. As you move the tool around the
screen, its cursor icon will change to indicate its
current function.
The Move Point Tool is typically used to edit
a note, word, or phrase in which you want to
correct the timing of one point while leaving other
key points unchanged. Examples might include:
•
A note, word, or phrase that begins at the
correct time, but ends either early or late.
•
Conversely, a note, word, or phrase that
begins early or late, but ends at the correct
time.
•
A note, word, or phrase that both begins and
ends at the correct times, but whose internal
articulation you would like to edit.
Using the Move Point Tool is a two step process:
1. Select the audio range you wish to operate
on.
2. Select the point within that range that
you want to shift and move it forward or
backward as desired.
The Move Point Tool operates as a combination
I-beam selection tool and time shifting tool as
follows:
•
Whenever the cursor is over an area that
is not located in an existing range selection
(either because there is no current range
selection or because it is outside the area of
an existing range), it appears as an I-beam
and clicking and dragging the mouse will
select a new range.
•
Whenever the cursor is over an area that
IS located in an existing range selection,
it changes to the Move Point cursor and
clicking on a point and dragging performs
a time shift, moving the selected point and
compressing and expanding the audio within
the selected range.
•
Whenever the cursor is over an area where
audio has not been tracked by the Track
Pitch + Time function, the cursor changes to
the universal “No” icon to indicate that time
shifting is not possible at that point.
NOTE: When in selection mode (i.e.,
when the cursor icon is the I-Beam),
the resulting selection is applicable
to time shifting only. Selections for the purpose
of pitch correction are made by the dedicated
I-Beam tool described earlier in this chapter.