Enabling AudioSnap

What is the type of audio in the track?  AudioSnap cannot be applied to groove clips, things like REX files or Acidized WAV files, only standard audio files.  If this is the case do a simple Bounce to Clip and it will enable the AudioSnap capabilities. 

AudioSnap is an excellent idea, very poorly implemented. It's very confusing, doesn't always work, only works well on very small clips, and seems to infiltrate your system once enabled and there's no way to stop it from running. I can't tell you how many audio tracks I've tried it on, decided not to use it, even did ctrl-z to go back, and the next time I open up the project it says "transients are being built" or something close to that.

AudioSnap needs a lot of revamping in my opinion.

Like so much of life I'm thinking it best if I draw my own conclusions.

Regards

If you do have a lot of clips with audiosnap enabled on some and not others and you wish to disable it on all clips.........

1. Ctrl+A to Select all
2. Show the Audiosnap palette
3. Use the enable/disable switch to turn it off (to the right "AUDIOSNAP") at the top of the window.
4. Done

I really wish a failure to understand how to operate parts of the program wouldn't instantly result in negative opinions on it but that's life I guess..........

Perhaps there's a video in there somewhere.

 
I'm for that!
 
fwiw: Once I got AS enabled I was actually kind of pleased with the result...course I really should just work on my meter. ;-)
 
Regards

I agree it is quite a complex subject and I don't claim to be an expert in all it's abilities by any stretch of the imagination. Up until about 3 months ago I'd barely used it but in the last few months I've been using it more and more and certainly have a better idea of what it is capable of now. I'm quite comfortable with the concepts and using it now.

Prior to that I always used to say I never used it much, perhaps I should have just proclaimed it garbage.

Prior to that I always used to say I never used it much, perhaps I should have just proclaimed it garbage.

LOL so true!

Sometimes FBB you really make me laugh. I thank you for that.

Yep - that was a poor analogy but nowhere near as poor as claiming "there's no way to stop it (audiosnap) running"

If it's not enabled it isn't doing anything in the same way that V-vocal doesn't interfere with a project unless you enable it on a clip/track. It's just a tool that's there to be used or not and certainly isn't the demon you painted it to be.

Bub

FastBikerBoy


Yep - that was a poor analogy but nowhere near as poor as claiming "there's no way to stop it (audiosnap) running"

If it's not enabled it isn't doing anything in the same way that V-vocal doesn't interfere with a project unless you enable it on a clip/track. It's just a tool that's there to be used or not and certainly isn't the demon you painted it to be.

That has not been my experience, but please set me straight if I'm doing something wrong. Seriously (not being sarcastic).

Whenever I enable Audio Snap, then disable it, the next time I open my project, it tells me to wait while Transients are being created, and as of yet, I've found no way to stop that from happening. Is there a separate enable/disable for the Transient function maybe?

I'm no expert on the whole thing Bub but in my experience the only time I see the "Transient" generated message if is something is changed somewhere on the project regarding timing via audiosnap. it might be clip map editing, moved transients or whatever.

Disabling Audiosnap in those circumstances won't stop the message being generated which might seem a bit illogical but isn't if you think about it.

Say I've moved some transients on a clip or edited a clip map. Audiosnap is enabled so I would expect the warning. If I disable audiosnap it might seem correct to assume that the warning wouldn't happen either, but it does. The reason for that (AFAIK) is because the actual edits are still there, which again may seem strange but I'd be pretty miffed if I'd spent some considerable time editing a clip and just because I bypassed audiosnap by turning it off it forgot all my edits. In fact I'd be furious.

So as the edits are still there, it still needs to generate the transients. If you are seeing the warning, somewhere in that project you have some edits, whether they are active or not. It might be a clip map on a clip or some transients that have been moved but I'm sure there will be one/some somewhere.

That's the behaviour I see here anyway, even in a project where I'm sure that I haven't changed something there's always a change somewhere if I get that message.