Snap to Grid settings

Music Creator lets you define a snap grid that makes it easier to arrange clips, select time ranges, and control envelope shape drawing. To use the snap grid, enable the Snap to Grid button in the Control Bar and set the grid resolution to an interval of musical time, such as a whole note, half note, or quarter note; a unit of absolute time: a number of frames, seconds or samples. When the Snap to Grid button is enabled, if you move or paste clips or markers, items will be snapped to the nearest point on the snap grid.

Figure 129. Snap to Grid settings are available in the Tools module in Control Bar.

A. Snap on/off

The Control Bar contains the following snap settings:

Snap enable/disable . Enable/disable snapping. When enabled, vertical grid lines that correspond to the snap resolution are displayed in the Track view. Right-click the button, or click and keep the mouse button pressed for a brief moment to open the Snap to Grid menu, which contains the following options:

Smart Grid. The snap resolution is dynamically determined by the horizontal zoom level, and the M:B:T time rulers in the Clips pane and Piano Roll view are optimized to show relevant snap locations.

Move-To . Align data to the snap grid (default behavior).

Move-By . Move data by the grid resolution.

Snap Settings. Open the Snap to Grid dialog box, which lets you specify the resolution(s) of the snap to grid feature that you want events to “snap to.”

Additional Snap to Grid settings

To access additional snap settings, go to Edit > Preferences > Customization - Snap to Grid (or right-click the Snap to Grid button ).

The Snap section contains the following settings:

Snap Intensity. Specify the magnetic strength when snapping, which determines how quickly moved events are pulled towards the snap grid.

Magnetic Test. Drag the event to test the current Snap Intensity setting.

Snap to Nearest Audio Zero Crossings. Automatically snap edited audio clips to the nearest zero crossing of the waveform (the point at which there is no volume) to minimize glitches that can happen when waveforms are spliced together.

 

See also:

Defining and using the Snap Grid

Tools