10.4

SEQUENCER FUNCTIONS
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The Snap function affects the following operations:
• Moving the Song Position Pointer, Loop Locators and Song End Marker.
When you adjust the Locators with Snap activated, they will snap to the selected Snap value on an absolute grid.
• Moving clips and events, recordings and Comp Row cuts.
When you move objects with Snap activated, they will keep their relative distance to the Snap value positions.
• Drawing clips.
When you create clips with the Pencil tool, their start and end positions will snap to the selected note value posi-
tions on an absolute grid.
• Drawing events in open clips.
The Snap value determines the absolute grid points on which you can draw a note or an automation point. The
Snap value also determines the shortest possible note length that you can draw.
• Splitting clips with the Razor tool.
The Snap value determines the absolute grid to which a clip can be split.
• Nudging clips, events and recording.
When you nudge clips, events or recordings with Snap activated, they will keep their relative distance to the Snap
value positions.
• Creating Comp Row cuts
The Snap value determines the absolute grid to which you could add cuts in open Comp audio clips.
• Creating and Moving Slice Markers
The Snap value determines the absolute grid to which you could add and move Slice Markers in open Single Take
audio clips.
About the “Grid” value
The “Grid” value at the top in the list is dynamic and automatically changes the snap value, from “Bar” to “1/128”,
depending on the current horizontal zoom level on the Arrange/Edit pane.
The picture below shows the same clips in the Arrange pane at two different horizontal zoom levels:
About separate Snap values for selected clips and for open clips
There are two different Snap settings, one for when a clip is open for editing in Edit Mode, and one for when no clip
is open (e.g. in Song/Block View). Typically, you would set a fine Snap value (e.g. 1/16) for open clips in Edit Mode
and have the other Snap value set to “Bar” for convenient clip arranging in the Song/Block View. You can also
choose to turn Snap off in either of these modes, independently of the other setting.