How do you align beats to an imported audio track?

  I have a choral track which I imported into Sonar x1. I would like to have the beat boundaries and tempo align to the audio track so I can add midi tracks to the audio track. I thought "fit to improvisation" would do it, but I wasn't successful. How do I do this? Thanks, Ron Williams

if the choral track has a defined tempo, i recommend finding a downbeat of that track and aligning that downbeat to a downbeat on the gri as in bar 1 beat 1. then if that downbeat is not the start of the clip, slic the clip precisley on that 1. then turn on the metronome and start trying to adjust the terack tempo where it sounds like the metronome is playing in time with the audio track. when you think you have it, try to go towards the end of the audio track and play there and see if the metronome is still on. if not, keep changin the project tempo in very smalll increments.

when you get yor audio track on an actual tempo and it plays with the metronome in time throught, you can then start adding midi or audio loops in the project with the grid tuened on and get them to line up.

now, if the choral track is ot on a defined tempo throughout its performance, the only way to line up midi tracks to it is pretty much if you quantize it with audiosnap or manually byt cutting and adjusting throught it.

this is much harder to explain than to show. 

I am not as experienced as some of you with this technique but I play quarter notes on a midi track in time with the music and then convert that to a tempo map with fit improvisation.  This works good as long as I play the beats well to the music.

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