Quantizing audio tracks.

[Gerry 1943]

This is my first trial at audio. ( guitar )

Is there a way to quantize an audio track the same way we can quantize a midi track.

I am having difficulty starting a riff on time.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards

 

Gerry

[Mark Morgon-Shaw]

Unfortunately the best answer is probaly more practice on the guitar 

You can chop up the clip and tweak things by eye / ear..slide the start times of notes to where you need and use crossfading to smooth over the edits to the next note.

[msmcleod]

As an alternative, you can use Melodyne for quantising audio tracks. 

[chris.r]

And don't forget that between 0-100% you've got 99 variations. Sometimes quantizing by 20% will do great job.

[lapasoa]

I agree with msmcleod. Melodyne 4 is the answer .

[bvideo]

If the start time is the problem, and if the whole performance is off by the same amount, then it is not quantizing you need, but just shifting the performance to the right start time.

If that's it, the root cause could be that there is some inherent latency in the playback of whatever you are playing against in the project, be that a metronome or a prearranged accompaniment. Usually, a recording is aligned (after the fact) when played against a project with latency, but sometimes things can go wrong with that.

[balinas]

Dont forget about the pre-count in to get you into the groove before the actual recording starts.  And practice.  some day very soon, you will be surprised when your music starts exactly with the beat, and the metronome just disappears into your music.  

[Eve Ripper]

I would practice alot. Also I would record in loop mode to choose good takes. Audiosnap is your friend to check transients and move some.

[Gerry 1943]

Thank you all for your help. Very helpful.

Now I have to go to work on the project.

[Jonathan Sasor]

You'll want to be aware of the stretching algorithms using AudioSnap. The Elastique algorithms will give you the best bang for your buck for online rendering (what you hear during real time playback). You can set the defaults for this in the Preferences or change per clip via the AudioSnap Palette or Clip Properties.

[chuckebaby]

On 1/10/2019 at 3:08 AM, CosmicDolphin said:

Unfortunately the best answer is probaly more practice on the guitar 

You can chop up the clip and tweak things by eye / ear..slide the start times of notes to where you need and use crossfading to smooth over the edits to the next note.

I thought the same as L Tim Audiosnap is a great tool for this very purpose, however I agree with you on slicing and shifting clips vs using Audiosnap (on simple fixes) I don’t like stretching audio and avoid it at all costs. Tim is really good with Audiosnap and is probably a lot better than I, but I can always hear stretched audio vs non stretched audio. Maybe it’s in my head ?

[razor7music]

I typically start playing (or singing) a prelude or the starting riff over and over before the punch-in starts. By the time the records starts, I'm already in the groove.

[Mark Morgon-Shaw]

On 1/11/2019 at 9:46 PM, Chuck E Baby said:

I can always hear stretched audio vs non stretched audio. Maybe it’s in my head ?

Me too..I hate artifacts