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:
A measure = four beats, and a quarter note = one beat.
The default setting for Snap Position To is Eighth Notes and the default setting for Snap Length To is Measures.
See Also
Editing a track or part of a track
Cropping or extending a Primary track segment
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.
Right-click the Timeline, and choose Snap To Beat.
Make sure Snap To Beat is turned on.
From the Tools menu, choose Snap Position To.
Click the position setting you want, from 8 Measures down to Eighth Notes.
The Snap Position To feature affects:
The actual placement of the cursor when you click within the Timeline. For example, if you have the Snap Position set to Eighth Notes, and you click in the Timeline, MixMeister places the cursor on the closest eighth note (half beat).
Where a sprocket in a Standard Mixed track will land when you move it.
Where the left edge of a segment will land if you’re dragging it on top of another segment. (If you drop the segment over blank space in its track, it lands wherever you place it because there is nothing to snap the segment to.)
Where an Intro or Outro Range in a Beat-Mixed track will land when you drag and drop the range.
Make sure Snap To Beat is turned on.
From the Tools menu, choose Snap Length To.
Click the length setting you want, from 8 Measures down to Eighth Notes.
The Snap Length To feature affects:
The size of a selection when you drag across a portion of a track in the Timeline. For example, if you have Snap Length To set to Measures, as you drag past two beats, MixMeister makes the selection four beats long (a measure); as you drag it past six beats, MixMeister makes the selection eight beats long (two measures), and so on.
The length of an Intro or Outro Range in a Beat-Mixed track when you crop or extend the range.
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.