Aligning the Audio of Events

The Audio Alignment Panel allows you to automatically align the audio of overlapping audio events or selection ranges on different tracks.

Prerequisite

  • Your project contains two or more audio events, located on different tracks and overlapping in time.

  • The audio that you want to align with the reference is not modified by VariAudio or AudioWarp operations.

    Note

    • If the audio already contains real-time effects, you will be asked if you want to bounce it first, keeping the existing effects, or overwrite the existing processing.

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

Procedure

  1. Select one or multiple events or ranges that you want to use as alignment reference.
    Note

    All reference events must be located on the same track.

  2. On the Project window toolbar, click Open Audio Alignment Panel.
  3. On the Audio Alignment Panel, click Add Selection as Alignment Reference.
  4. Select one or multiple events that you want to align with the reference.
  5. On the Audio Alignment Panel, click Add Selection as Alignment Target.

    The overlapping time range between reference and target is highlighted in the corresponding waveforms. If multiple targets are selected, you can toggle their waveforms using the pop-up menu.

  6. In the Audio Alignment Settings section, make your changes.
  7. Click Align Audio to start the processing.

    The target events are processed.

Result

The audio of the target events is aligned with the reference event within the time range where the events overlap.

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.

After Completing This Task

To visualize the result of the alignment in the Sample Editor, select the reference and target events, and select Show All Clips as Clip Display Mode on the Sample Editor toolbar.

If the result of the time stretching does not meet your expectations, you can change the warping algorithm on the Sample Editor toolbar. This algorithm change is instantly applied to the audio. Alternatively, you can use the Free Warp tool to align the audio events.