ProTools magnetic snap functions?!!

[nautama]

Hello everyone, This is my third post in the hard a straining road to learning (or trying to) learn ProTools, M-Powered in my case. Now I have a question about Protools snap functions. As some of you know by now, I used to have Adobe Audition as my default DAW, in this program the snapping functions are great, you can drag tracks and place them exactly in the beginning or end of another without no further problems, it has some sort of magnetic properties, this is magnificent to place the cursor also, if you place it near a beginning or an end of a clip it will automatically place right in top of it. In ProTools the only snapping functions I've seen so far is in Grid Mode, which is really helpful if you are working with loops, but not with regular recorded audio because like it or not, no one plays exactly in the beat, the other snapping function I found is right click on the region and "snap to previos", or "snap to next", this is kind of helpful, but in my situation I have a clip in the middle of other two, this region isn't enough large to fit the hole between them, so I click "Snap to previous" and the beginning of the clip is now fixed, but when I want to enlarge the middle region to fit between the other two, I just don't find a way to snap it perfectly to the beginning of the second clip.

I tried with shuffle mode and nothing.

DOES ANYBODY KNOW IF THERES SOME WAY TO HAVE THESE MAGNETIC SNAP PROPERTIES IN PROTOOLS?! OR ANYTHING SIMILAR?!

[howie15]

Well, you're really talking about two different things here. Shuffle mode will snap an audio region to the end of a previous region. If the region you are placing in a space isn't the exact length, then it won't fit/fill all the space in. To get it to fit an specific space that is different from it's original length you need to do some sort of time compression/expansion. PT TC/E plug does this, and although I haven't played with PT 7.4 Stretch is an upgraded TCE plug for PT. Pitch n' Time rocks for this as well, but is a little pricey. So if you want the audio region to "fit to size" you need to adjust it's size then place it.

Howie J

[MURPHM]

Nautama,

Not sure if you still need this, but what you need to do is put pro tools into "SLIP" mode.

Top left hand corner of the the editor, you should see, 4 boxes: shuffle, grid, spot and slip.

Simply click on slip and away you go.

Enjoy.

[nautama]

I appreciate your answer, although I found the exact way to do what I ment to. In grid mode you select the grid as regions instead of tempo. That way it automatically attaches the moving region to the end and beginning of the static ones.

Greetings.

[Zakann]

Thank you very much!

I am creating an account to say thank you for all your helps on this forum. I swept to ProTools, from Cubase, and There's such things that are different. Thank you very much, because this tips are so newbies, but so helpfull.

Ty