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The Project window
Options
The Snap function
The Snap function helps you to find exact positions when
editing in the Project window. It does this by restricting
horizontal movement and positioning to certain positions.
Operations affected by Snap include moving, copying,
drawing, sizing, splitting, range selection, etc.
• You turn Snap on or off by clicking the Snap icon in the
toolbar.
Snap activated.
When you are moving audio events with Snap activated, it
isn’t necessarily the beginning of the event that is used as
Snap position reference. Instead, each audio event has a
snap point, which you can set to a relevant position in the
audio (such as a downbeat, etc.).
Exactly how Snap works depends on which mode is se-
lected on the Snap mode pop-up menu.
The following sections describe the different Snap
modes:
Grid
In this mode, the Snap positions are set with the Grid
Type pop-up menu to the right. The options depend on
the display format selected for the ruler. For example, if the
ruler is set to show bars and beats, the grid can be set to
bars, beats or the quantize value set with the next pop-up
menu to the right. If a time or frame-based ruler format is
selected, the Grid Type pop-up menu contains time or
frame-based grid options, etc.
When Seconds is selected as ruler format, the Grid Type pop-up menu
contains time-based grid options.
Grid Relative
When you move events and parts in this mode they will not
be “magnetic” to the grid. Rather, the grid determines the
step size for moving the events. This means that a moved
event will keep its original position relative to the grid.
For example, if an event starts at the position 3.04.01 (one
beat before bar 4), Snap is set to Grid Relative and the Grid
Type pop-up menu is set to “Bar”, you can move the event
in steps of one bar – to the positions 4.04.01, 5.04.01 and
so on. The event will keep its relative position to the grid, i.e.
stay one beat before the bar lines.
• This only applies when dragging existing events or parts
– when you create new events or parts this mode works
like the Grid mode.
Events
In this mode, the start and end positions of other events
and parts become “magnetic”. This means that if you drag
an event to a position near the start or end of another
event, it is automatically aligned with the start or end of the
other event. For audio events, the position of the snap
point is also magnetic (see “Adjusting the snap point” on
page 129).
• Note that this includes marker events on the marker
track.
This allows you to snap events to marker positions, and vice versa.
Shuffle
Shuffle mode is useful when you want to change the order
of adjacent events. If you have two adjacent events and
drag the first one to the right, past the second event, the
two events will change places.