AudioSnap

I wanted to tighten up a live drum recording and read about this (audiosnap). Should I have it? where is it? I have Platinum 21.13 establishing ownership back in 3/2016.
 
thanks!

Hi.
My friend Charles made some videos on how to do this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE06a_7Tzu4&list=PLBxMfcpVmZfxPC0Q0utR0NB0pOVD2dOJr
All the best.

WOW! I did not know that was there. It looks pretty intuitive and I will view video suggested. I have been getting more into live drums lately and am conditioned to here pretty accruate tempo  from doing midi and loops. I'm now hopeful and open to any published material on this plug in.
 
thanks again!

While we're on the subject of Audiosnap, when using REAPER, the audio clips automatically follow the project tempo. I've used Audiosnap to do that on a per clip basis in SONAR, but is there a better way?

I don't go back to audio as I am happy enough with the VST drums sounds as it is. The drummer we had back then had a terrible sounding kit anyways. And his timing was far from perfect. He's long gone so will never know :) 
 
But if you did want to revert back you can use the original drum audio and turn it into samples. Slice it into a short snippet in a wave editor. Put it in Superior Drummer or any sample player and trigger that. 
I sampled my acoustic drum kit and it's kinda cool to play it as a VST.. 
Working with an audio drum track fixing timing seems an endless chore, it can be done and a lot depends on the leakage between the mikes. 
Real hard to work with overheads. If your kick leaked into them and you correct the kick mike track you'll still hear the original timing in the overheads. 
 
So now the work starts!  
 
My solution was I isolated all the Tom rolls and managed to use drum replacer to turn them into midi. I had to manually set each note, drum replacer made them all 1 note. 
Then I just cheated and replayed the Hi Hat and cymbals using my Yamaha DX Kit. 
End result was a close approximation of the original but lacks all the audio voodoo. But once put in a song with all the other stuff you don't notice so much. 
So you sacrifice realizim for better timming which on certain songs is an improvment. 
 
 
 

The closest I may get will be Johnny V's suggestion to record live drums, convert to midi and then, use samples of the initial audio (or some nice published samples). That might be ok.

Thanks for that; I'm headed to research Ableton live. I suppose that technology is not available 3rd party to use in Sonar. And............by-the-way, thanks for all of your Guitar Player columns I used to read back in the day, carry on sir.

Although the images are no longer available, this might be useful
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Editing-multitrack-drums-is-completely-impossible-This-needs-to-be-addressed-m3362190.aspx#3362631
 
 

Thanks Lord Tim that is the thread reference I meant to post but my notes are a bit messy. Was very helpful to me.

Yes it's amazing how bad the timing an be in a rock song and most would not notice. The problem for me is some of these tracks I have are original songs I `recorded with a real drummer and it's more the sound of those drums that bugs me than the odd timing issues. This is where drum replacer is awesome.  But I have other tracks recorded only with stereo drums and a drummer who sounded great, those I leave alone. 

Thanks Lord Tim! I look forward to trying that. Interesting: a clean gated track (s) is necessary to generate a model for the other tracks to "hear" after which quality is upgraded by an additional move. Is that the gist?

Ok Tim (thanks again for the details!) Yea... I understand your first point re: gated just for detection.
Question: In your step 4, am I bouncing both the gated snare and gated kick to a single track or to 2 separate tracks?
It looks as though step 9 accounts for phasing issues between e.g., snare and overhead?I may have additional questions this weekend when I try it.