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The Sample Editor
Ö You can also create grooves from a MIDI part by se-
lecting the part and dragging it on the grid display in the
middle of the Quantize Setup dialog or by selecting “Part
to Groove” from the Advanced Quantize submenu on the
MIDI menu.
Other hitpoint functions
On the Hitpoints tab of the Sample Editor Inspector and
on the various submenus of the Audio menu, you will also
find the following functions:
Create Markers
If an audio event contains calculated hitpoints, you can
click on the Create Markers button in the Hitpoints tab to
add a marker for each hitpoint (see “Marker tracks” on
page 31). This can be useful to snap to hitpoints, e.g. for
locating hitpoints and for using the Time Warp tool (see
“The Time Warp tool” on page 408).
Create Regions
If your audio event contains calculated hitpoints, you can
click the Create Regions button on the Hitpoints tab to
automatically create regions from hitpoints. This can be
useful to isolate recorded sounds, in order to upload them,
e.g. to HALion either as velocity or keyzones.
When you make a selection, regions will only be calculated
from the hitpoints that are contained in the selection.
Create Events
When you wish to create separate events according to the
hitpoints for a file, you can click on the Create Events but-
ton in the Hitpoints tab. This means that you do not have to
make the same considerations as when slicing for tempo
changes. You can use any method you like to set hitpoints.
• The slices created will appear in the Project window as
separate events.
Close Gaps
This function from the Advanced submenu on the Audio
menu is useful if you sliced a loop for tempo changes.
Lowering the tempo below the loop’s original tempo will
create gaps between the slices. The lower the tempo is in
relation to the original tempo, the wider the gaps will be.
Close Gaps can be used to remedy this.
Proceed as follows:
1. Set the desired tempo.
2. Select the part in the Project window.
3. Select “Close Gaps” from the Advanced submenu on
the Audio menu.
Time stretch is applied on each slice to close the gaps. Depending on
the length of the part and the algorithm set in the Preferences (Editing–
Audio page), this can take a little while.
4. The waveform is redrawn and the gaps are closed!
• Note that this feature creates new clips in the Pool, one
for each slice.
• Close Gaps can also be used when the project tempo
is higher than the original loop tempo.
This will use the time stretch function to compress the slices to fit.
• If you decide to change the tempo again after using the
Close Gaps function, you should undo the Close Gaps op-
eration or start over again, using the original unstretched
file.
• You can also use this function on individual events (in
the Audio Part Editor or Project window).
The events don’t have to be slices – you can use Close Gaps simply to
stretch an audio event to the start position of the next event.
Free Warp
The Free Warp tool allows you to create Warp tabs. Warp
tabs are a kind of marker or anchor that can be attached to
musically relevant time positions in an audio event, for ex-
ample the first beat of every bar. Warp tabs can be dragged
to the corresponding time positions in the project, and the
audio will be stretched accordingly.