I keep trying to set the tack to absolute time but it won't set. Keeps SNAPPING to a musical time.And not to a usable time at that. I have several tracks that need to be set to the drum track and it keeps going to musical time even though I set the track to absolute. SONAR X1 Producer/ Windows XP PRO/M Audio 1010 It used to be so easy with all versions up to 8.5. NOW it's a pain to adjust the tracks to sync to a drum track. I have some 20+ trks to slide into time and I can't get ONE to match! I don't want to use audio snap for too many of the guitar parts were done in punch ins and it's easier to slice them into segments THEN slide them to math the beat. Just using audio snap to a musical time is too general for how out of time each over dub is. It works better via slicing one Guitar trk up and sliding them via ABSOLUTE,then bounce THAT to clip. The guitarist (past away) can't redo the tracks and one punch in has several time signature issues it's better to use absolute. Please assist if anyone can. I haven't used this forum in a while and it took some 5 emails just to get the darn password to work.

If I'm understanding you, it's not the clip's timebase that you want to change to absolute time, but just the snap grid resolution. For that, you just right-click the snap interval, choose samples or seconds, and enter a suitable value.

Or if you're trying to align clips to transients in the drum track, enable the [Land]Marks button, set it to Audio Transients, enable Audiosnap on the drum track, and add its transients to the pool.

I do this often in SONAR. I usually set my nudge setting in Preferences to about 15 or 20 Msec and the turn Snap OFF. Once Snap is OFF you can use nudge to quickly move a clip and playback. In X1 I believe F12 toggles Snap On/Off this changed to the N key in X2. 

Hope that helps
-lance

YEE HA!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!! I forgot to go to the preferences for it is has different settings in X1 as far as the fine tuning one can do, compared to the older versions I have of Cake.I'm doing some 30 tracks by old timers that have (serious)timing issues. SO using snap is NOT a snap at all. It's easier to cut up one take into say 8 or 10 pieces and SLIDE the pieces so they fit. Audio Snap runs it as a BULK and you still need to fine tune portions. As soon as I could see I could NOW move the pieces "absolutely" I was in 7th heaven. THANK YOU SO MUCH!! That suggestion was spot on!

That's what I thought but that didn't work if I'm reading what you suggest right.Lance Riley mentioned it another way and it was exactly what I needed. Thank you for your input. I was stressing for I need to move a BUNCH of tiny pieces and SNAP wasn't doing it.