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Subject:Snap to Grid Posted by: danika Date:4/23/2007 10:32:02 AM I having trouble getting Snap to Grid to work properly in SF9. Auto Snap to Time always worked fine for me in SF8. Settings: - Snapping is on - Snap to Grid is on - Snap to Zero Crossing is off - Time Ruler is set to bars and beats - Disable auto snapping... in Editing Preferences is unchecked Whenever I make a selection auto snapping to the beat grid never happens. I always have to force it by using Selection>Snap to Grid.
Subject:RE: Snap to Grid Reply by: ForumAdmin Date:4/24/2007 11:42:21 AM Snap to Grid is now a live "soft" operation. This means that when zoomed below the grid resolution, snapping will occur during drag as you approach a snap point. In other words, snapping is no longer a post-drag invocation of the relevant Snap to... command, which many users found confusing or disruptive, particularly since the snap resolution is determined by the current zoom level. My guess is that quantizing selection to a zoom-independent increment (frames, beats, seconds, etc.) would be more appropriate for your task. That's something we could consider exposing in an update. So if you could elaborate on precisely how you use this feature, I'd like to hear about it. J.
Subject:RE: Snap to Grid Reply by: danika Date:4/25/2007 10:47:10 AM >Snap to Grid is now a live "soft" operation. This means that when zoomed below the grid resolution, snapping will occur during drag as you approach a snap point. Thanks. I finally figured that out. Personally I like to old way better. In this particular case I am creating regions on beat or measure boundaries so I can rearrange them using a playlist.
Subject:RE: Snap to Grid Reply by: ForumAdmin Date:4/25/2007 12:08:21 PM Noted. ACID's Snap to Grid behaves like this. In an application like Sound Forge or Vegas, where the time format may change regularly, I think a "Quantize to X" option might be more suitable. I'll look into allowing for this behavior one way or the other. Thanks for the clarification. J. Message last edited on4/25/2007 12:10:25 PM byForumAdmin.

Subject:Snap to Grid

Posted by: danika

Date:4/23/2007 10:32:02 AM

I having trouble getting Snap to Grid to work properly in SF9. Auto Snap to Time always worked fine for me in SF8. Settings:

- Snapping is on
- Snap to Grid is on
- Snap to Zero Crossing is off
- Time Ruler is set to bars and beats
- Disable auto snapping... in Editing Preferences is unchecked

Whenever I make a selection auto snapping to the beat grid never happens. I always have to force it by using Selection>Snap to Grid.

Subject:RE: Snap to Grid

Reply by: ForumAdmin

Date:4/24/2007 11:42:21 AM

Snap to Grid is now a live "soft" operation. This means that when zoomed below the grid resolution, snapping will occur during drag as you approach a snap point.

In other words, snapping is no longer a post-drag invocation of the relevant Snap to... command, which many users found confusing or disruptive, particularly since the snap resolution is determined by the current zoom level.

My guess is that quantizing selection to a zoom-independent increment (frames, beats, seconds, etc.) would be more appropriate for your task. That's something we could consider exposing in an update.

So if you could elaborate on precisely how you use this feature, I'd like to hear about it.

J.

Subject:RE: Snap to Grid

Reply by: danika

Date:4/25/2007 10:47:10 AM

>Snap to Grid is now a live "soft" operation. This means that when zoomed below the grid resolution, snapping will occur during drag as you approach a snap point.

Thanks. I finally figured that out. Personally I like to old way better. In this particular case I am creating regions on beat or measure boundaries so I can rearrange them using a playlist.

Subject:RE: Snap to Grid

Reply by: ForumAdmin

Date:4/25/2007 12:08:21 PM

Noted. ACID's Snap to Grid behaves like this.

In an application like Sound Forge or Vegas, where the time format may change regularly, I think a "Quantize to X" option might be more suitable.

I'll look into allowing for this behavior one way or the other. Thanks for the clarification.

J.

Message last edited on4/25/2007 12:10:25 PM byForumAdmin.