Using Snap To Beat

Snap To Beat is the MixMeister feature for snapping a variety of things to the beat—sprockets, label markers, a segment, and so on—and ensures that they snap to the beat no matter where you drop or drag them.

Because Snap to Beat lets you paste sections of music according to beats and measures, it helps you achieve results that are more likely to make sense musically. Suppose you have Beat Mixing turned on, and you want to extend a song’s four-beat drum intro to 12 beats so that you have more time to mix it with the previous song. Using Snap to Beat, it’s easy to select and copy the four-beat measure and paste it twice to extend the intro to 12 beats. MixMeister snaps the position of the beginning of the range to the closest quarter note by default.

When Snap to Beat is on (which it is by default), you can specify measurements for its two snap settings—Snap Position To and Snap Length To. These settings are global in MixMeister, which means that the settings apply to all tracks in the Playlist.

Note  Keep in mind that in MixMeister:

See Also

Editing a track or part of a track

Cropping or extending a Primary track segment

To turn Snap To Beat on or off

A check mark next to Snap to Beat indicates it is turned on. If there is no check mark next to Snap to Beat, it is turned off.

To change the setting for Snap Position To

  1. Make sure Snap To Beat is turned on.

  2. From the Tools menu, choose Snap Position To.

  3. Click the position setting you want, from 8 Measures down to Eighth Notes.

The Snap Position To feature affects:

To change the setting for Snap Length To

  1. Make sure Snap To Beat is turned on.

  2. From the Tools menu, choose Snap Length To.

  3. Click the length setting you want, from 8 Measures down to Eighth Notes.

The Snap Length To feature affects:

Note  The length of Intro and Outro Ranges will not snap to a length that is less than a measure. So even if you set snap length to eighth notes, the Intro and Outro Ranges will snap to measures. If you set snap length to something more than a measure—two, for example—then the length of the Intro and Outro Ranges will follow the Snap Length To setting.