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The Sample Editor
8. In our example, the first beat of the third bar in the au-
dio event is slightly offset from the corresponding grid po-
sition and thus needs to be moved back a bit.
9. Place the pointer at the position of the first beat of the
third bar in the audio event and click and hold.
When you click, a warp tab is added. If the position where you clicked
was off, you can adjust it by dragging the tab in the ruler.
10. With the mouse button still pressed, drag the warp tab
so that the position lines up with the first beat of the bar in
the ruler.
11. Release the mouse button.
Now the first beat in the audio event is perfectly aligned with the corre-
sponding position in the project!
• You can also first add warp tabs at the relevant musical
positions and change their positions later, see “Editing
warp tabs” on page 261.
Next to the warp tab handle in the ruler, a number is
shown. This number indicates the warp factor, i.e. the
amount of stretch. Warp factor numbers higher than 1.0
indicate that the audio region preceding the warp tab is
expanded and will play back slower. Warp factor numbers
lower than 1.0 indicate that the audio region preceding
the warp tab is compressed and will play back faster.
Ö Note that this ratio is limited to a range between 0.1 and
10. This factor is updated when you change the project
tempo with Straighten Up mode enabled or apply the
timestretch tool in the project.
12. Continue to use the same method to align the first
beat in each bar to the corresponding ruler position.
You only have to add warp tabs where the downbeat in the audio file
drifts from the ruler position and/or if you want to lock a warp tab so that
it is not moved when editing other points.
When you are done, the previously varying tempo of the
audio event will be metronome-steady and will adapt to
any tempo in Cubase.
The third downbeat in the audio event.