AudioSnap And Ableton 'Set 1.1.1 here'

Frank Edwards


Is there a better way of doing this?  I know in the tutorial they position the transients manually, but if possible I would like to use the available tools as the clip will not always be so small.

Also, when I've finished and bounced to clip, I've had problems with the 'Offline' 'Radial Mix' and 'Radial Mix Advanced' settings whereby they seem to reposition the first transient?

I have to say that there doesn't seem to be one definitive guide to AudioSnap, not in the 'Sonar X1 Power' book, Groove 3 or the 'Sonar X1 Advanced Workshop' videos, and as for when you use the various rendering modes it seems to be down to 'suck it and see'?

Slide the first transient marker to the first transient (when you mouse over the transient marker it should be labeled 0 ). Slip edit the beginning of the clip so that it starts at the first transient, at the marker. Sonar has likely interpreted an incorrect tempo for the clip. Click the Edit Clip Map button. Slide 1:1 to the first transient if it isn't already (it should be); if you mouse over it should display Marker 0 at 1:1. Then, while holding the Ctrl key slide one of the transient markers to the correct position (slide it to the correct beat), for example slide 1:2 to the second beat . This should pretty much align all following markers correctly thuout the whole file so you don't have to set all markers manually. You may have to play the file a few times and watch for where a specific beat occurs. If you can locate the first beat of the second measure, for example, hold the Ctrl key and slide marker 2:1 to that transient marker (it should snap) and then everything else should now line up. If there are any extra beats showing at the end (for example, since you have a two measure clip showing, if you can see a marker showing 3:1 before the end of the clip), hold the Ctrl key while sliding 2:4 to the correct transient marker and the extraneous measure markers should disappear. If 2:4 is already lined up, hold the Ctrl key while sliding it away from and then back to the proper transient where it was previously. Now if you select Clip Follows Project it should work. Then slide the clip left, over to the beginning of the measure. You may then have to slip edit the right side of the clip to align to a measure. If any unwanted markers appear before 1:1 (or at the end), double-click them if they are red and they should disappear. You can then click the Edit Clip Map button again to close it.
 
Edited to fix a bug.

There's no need to bounce to clip. Doing so disables the ability to continue matching tempo changes. If you leave it where you were (after Step 4, before Step 5) it should match any tempo changes automatically. In other words, as long as there is need to adjust the project tempo leave it in AudioSnap mode and don't bounce.
 
The Help file mentions the Ctrl key under "Editing a clip's tempo map" if you go down to where the exclamation marks are and check "Note 2".