Audiosnap still a mystery to me
I am still not able to get a handle on Audiosnap. Haven't used it much for this very reason.
The "Clip follows project" function effect eludes me. For example: after bringing in a rhythmic and simple audio clip I turned on Audiosnap and edited the clip's tempo map. Not too much was needed to align the "beat-1" markers with their appropriate transients. They were just a bit off and it is a short clip so not too much work there, but if it were a long clip it would be quite a pain.
So,first off, isn't there an automatic function to adjust a slightly inaccurate tempo map? (i.e. sliding tempo map beats to the nearest transient? - in the case above, that is exactly what I manually did to correct it.)
Here is a section showing my tempo map edited clip with the map and project tempo out of sync:
Before Then I pressed
Clip follows project (with the Measure option selected) in order to have the tempo map corrected but slightly varying tempo clip align itself to the constant project tempo. It changed but did not align itself perfectly with the project tempo!? It started wandering away after a bit. Here again is that same section
after choosing
Clip follows project:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/WgMIfNR3TbHJuDshgX94-qIOxjpeON_wm_JZgGr6sKA?feat=directlink
Choosing the other various options for Clip follows project (i.e. Beat, Clip or Auto stretch) failed to align the clip's tempo map to the project tempo. Nor did choosing the
Set Clip Tempo from Project on the Average tempo drop-down as suggested in the Help file.
In comparison: Ableton, though not
flawless, imports audio, tempo maps it and aligns it to project tempo almost seamlessly if it is not too off (if you have warp enabled) with no further editing needed in some cases, certainly with the above example.
I am apparently missing something fundamental here and would really like to understand Audiosnap better...