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Advanced features
Free Warp
Sometimes, an event might need a bit of manual adjust-
ment as well. That’s where “Free Warp” comes in handy.
Free Warp tabs are a kind of anchor that can be attached
to musically relevant time positions in the audio, e.g. the
first beat of every bar. They allow you to effortlessly stretch
and warp audio as you please.
Ö Make sure to read the entire section “Audio Quantiza-
tion” on page 81 above before moving on.
1. Double-click on the “Drums” event to view it in the
Sample Editor.
2. Make sure that the Stretch Mode “Song Tempo” is se-
lected and activate the “Free Warp” button.
In this mode, we can adjust the timing of the audio file by creating Warp
tabs and dragging them to match up properly with the bars and beats in
the ruler. Warp tabs are a kind of marker or anchor that can be attached
to musically relevant time positions in an audio event, e.g. the first beat of
every bar, and dragged to the corresponding time positions. The audio
will be stretched accordingly.
3. Determine where the first beat of a bar in the audio
event does not match the corresponding ruler position in
the waveform. Click at the beginning of this beat to create
a warp tab.
The Stretch mode/Optimization section is highlighted to indicate that
free warping has been applied to the active audio event.
4. Once set, the position of a warp tab relative to a beat
is fixed. If you didn’t hit the desired position (i.e. the begin-
ning of the offset beat) in the first go, you need to delete
the warp tab, and create a new one by clicking at the right
position. (Zooming in might be useful.) Moving a warp tab
in the waveform always affects the timing.
5. Drag the Warp tab left or right to the ruler time posi-
tion you want it to be in order to adjust the timing.
The audio will be stretched accordingly.
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Load the project “Audio Warp” found in the “Sequel
Tutorial 5” folder.
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The warp tabs you draw will always snap to bar and
beat positions.