Audio Alignment

The Audio Alignment panel allows you to automatically match the timing of similar audio events or selection ranges that you want to play back simultaneously.

Audio Alignment enables you to match the timing of different instrument or vocal tracks. You can also solve phasing problems that occur when using different microphones on the same take. In postproduction contexts, you can match the timing of a voice recording take or an alternative take to the production sound, for example.

The audio alignment functions analyze the audio of overlapping events that you have selected for aligning and either use the warping function of the Sample Editor for time stretching or shift the audio.

The Audio Alignment Panel provides a Match Words option for aligning audio that contains identical wording. Its algorithm detects phonemes and syllables and allows for an exact word-to-word synchronization.

The Prefer Time Shifting option is especially suited for audio that results from the same recording, for example, in case of a multiple microphone recording. Whenever possible, it avoids time stretching. However, if necessary, time stretching is still used.

Note

  • If time stretching is necessary, Audio Alignment uses the warping algorithm that is selected in the Sample Editor.

  • If the audio already contains real-time effects, Audio Alignment allows you to bounce it first, keeping the existing effects, or to overwrite the existing processing.

  • If you want to use multiple events as references, these must be located on the same track.

  • If the reference and target events overlap only partially, the target track is split and only its overlapping part is processed. If necessary, a crossfade is added, and existing fades are removed automatically.

  • If the audio is in Musical Mode, you must bounce it first.

  • Audio Alignment only works as intended if the audio to be aligned and the project have the same sample rate.