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Drum Replacer Sample playback offset


Helios.G

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Hey Guys,

I've been looking all over the forum and the old forums for sonar, and can't find an answer so hopefully someone here knows. I'm working on a project, and have drum replacer on a track. It's working as intended, but the playback is a bit off, but I can't get the sample head to lineup exactly with the sample start. Is there an easy way to get it to zero milliseconds? Thanks.  If anyone's wondering it's the section marked G on the manual in the drum replacer section.  Thanks!

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Is it that you're having trouble  with fine adjustment, or something else?

When you hover over the red line, you should get a double-ended arrow indicating you can click and drag, and the offset time will be showing in the lower right corer of the sample display. It should default to 0 milliseconds. Adjustment with the mouse is admittedly pretty coarse and holding SHIFT dos not give fine control as it does elsewhere. I am able to get it back to 0.0 when dragged away, but I can't hit anything else between -1.8ms and +2.6ms. And there does not appear to be any other method of adjusting it or entering a value. 

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24 minutes ago, David Baay said:

Is it that you're having trouble  with fine adjustment, or something else?

When you hover over the red line, you should get a double-ended arrow indicating you can click and drag, and the offset time will be showing in the lower right corer of the sample display. It should default to 0 milliseconds. Adjustment with the mouse is admittedly pretty coarse and holding SHIFT dos not give fine control as it does elsewhere. I am able to get it back to 0.0 when dragged away, but I can't hit anything else between -1.8ms and +2.6ms. And there does not appear to be any other method of adjusting it or entering a value. 

Hey David, yeah that's it pretty much. The inability to fine tune that part of the process. If I move it from zero to try and get a tighter sync, I can't ever get it back, unless I remove the region effect as a whole and then start over.  It's a bummer cause I think drum replacer, sonically, is better than a lot of plugins that do the same thing.  I guess I'm just frustrated cause I've got something I need to get done.  Thanks for trying to help though.

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Did you know you can drag the drum replacer track to a midi or instrument track? Then you undo the regional effect and carry on. You now have a midi track and can use better drum sounds to replace the audio. You can also Quantize it but leakage from other drum mikes often screws this up. 

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3 hours ago, JohnnyV said:

Did you know you can drag the drum replacer track to a midi or instrument track? Then you undo the regional effect and carry on. You now have a midi track and can use better drum sounds to replace the audio. You can also Quantize it but leakage from other drum mikes often screws this up. 

That's a good tip. Thanks JohnnyV

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