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The Sample Editor
4. Activate the Musical Mode button.
Your loop is warped and stretched automatically to adapt it to the project
tempo. The rulers reflect the change.
In the Project window, the audio event is now shown with
a note symbol and a warp symbol in the upper right corner
to indicate that time stretching has been applied.
Adjusting complex audio material to the
project tempo using Musical Mode
If you want to use an audio file with unknown tempo or if
the beat of your audio file is not straight, you have to
change the “definition” of this audio file first. This is done
with the Auto Adjust function on the Definition tab of the
Sample Editor Inspector.
The Auto Adjust function extracts a “local” definition grid
that you can then match with the project tempo using Mu
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sical Mode.
To extract the definition from an audio file, proceed as
follows:
1. Open an audio clip or audio event in the Sample Editor.
2. Open the Definition tab and select a suitable value
from the Grid pop-up menu.
This determines the grid resolution for your audio.
3. Select a range that is covering one or several bars.
This selection should cover the section that you want to use in your proj-
ect. The definition grid will be calculated for this section only.
4. Click the Auto Adjust button.
The snap point is moved to the start of the selected range, which is now
also the start position of the local definition grid. The lower ruler changes
to reflect your edits. The transients, i.
e. the bars and beats positions, are
marked with vertical lines.
5. Activate the Musical Mode button.
Your clip is warped and stretched automatically to adapt it to the project
tempo. The rulers reflect the change.
Ö You can also apply Auto Adjust directly on an audio
event or a clip. If no range selection is defined, the grid is
calculated for the audio event. If no range selection and no
audio event are defined, the grid is calculated for the en
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tire clip. In both cases you need to make sure that the
event or clip starts and ends on a bar line.
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The Auto Adjust function needs to be applied on a
section containing complete bars. Therefore you first
need to define a range in your audio material that
starts and ends at a bar line.