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6. Repeat this procedure for any drum beats that appear
off time. Keep listening back to make sure that you are
getting the desired result.
If you are not satisfied, you have two options:
• You can delete a warp tab by clicking on the triangle at
the top of the ruler.
By deleting the Warp tab the stretched audio will also be reset.
• You can click the “Reset Warping” button.
This way, all manually adjusted Warp tabs will be reset.
• You can also perform a new auto-quantization by se-
lecting a new quantize value from the Quantize pop-up.
Note that any manual changes of grid lines you have made will be lost
when you click the “Warp Beats” button.
• If you activate the Free Warp function with the “Warp
Beats” button activated, the Quantize grid will be dis-
played by Warp tabs.
You can now adjust these Warp tabs with the Free Warp tool.
Congratulations! You have just successfully warped an au-
dio file to fit the bars and beats of your project. It doesn’t
matter how off your audio is, because you can always warp
it on time.
Smart Transpose
When you set the Project Root Key in the Pilot Zone, it
becomes the reference that any audio file or MIDI loop will
follow when it is added to a project. What this means is
that when you add a file to your project that has a defined
key, it will be changed to match the root key of the project.
What Smart Transpose does is make sure that the loop is
transposed to the nearest interval or pitch. This way, no
loop will be transposed by more than six semitones. This
ensures that loops never sound too unnatural because the
pitch was raised too high or too low.
Let’s see this in action.
1. Go to the MediaBay Page in the Multi Zone.
2. In the search field, type in “Bb guitar”. Press [Enter]/
[Return] on your computer keyboard. Sequel will filter the
results for us.
3. Drag the “03 105 Bb Guitar” loop to bar 1.
4. Notice that the project’s “Tempo” and the “Project
Root Key” changed to match the loop. The Project Root
Key is now “A#” which is the same thing (enharmonic
equivalent) as “Bb”.
5. Go back to the MediaBay Page. This time enter “D
horns” in the search field.
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Load the project “Smart Transpose” found in the
“Sequel Tutorial 5” folder.
Enter “Bb guitar” in the search field. Search Results
Project Root Key