How to Edit Time-Stretched Audio in Digital Performer

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Hi, my name is Jeff Pence, with UBU Media, on behalf of Expert Village. In this clip we'll be editing the imported audio and using the timestretched compressed feature in Digital Performer. First we need to set the tempo of the loop that we just imported. As you hear, it's not the right tempo, it's too slow. So we first highlight the clip. We know that's eight beats, that's important. So we go to audio, soundbite tempo, set the soundbite tempo, and the length is eight beats, no clicks. It tells us our tempo is 109, of that clip. So we're going to set the tempo at 109. With it highlighted we're going to go back to the audio and we are going to adjust the soundbite to sequence tempo. The sequence tempo is 120, so as we do that, you can see it now fits, it fits in the editor, for two bars. And now it won't sound so funny when it comes in. That sound like if it's in time. Now we can highlight the soundbite when you go Command R or in the edit window, repeat. How many times do you want to repeat that two bar phrase, well we have sixteen bars, let's repeat it eight times. And you see, it just filled in all our area that we needed. Then we'll take the last two and just kind of... Now I want to show you another way to just copy your soundbite, or to timestretch and compress it. Option, click in the main sequence window, main tracks window. We can drag the clip. Now we have a copy of it. We want to compress it a little differently instead of writing in the calculations. Look in your main sequence window, you can just click and drag with that icon, or as you move up it becomes a hand. Now you can drag it. Now you just compressed it to a different time, so it's faster. While you're in the main tracks window at the top, it snaps to whatever resolution you are in. Like right now we're in bar, so it just snaps it to the bar. Down at the bottom it snaps to whatever the unit is. Right here it's in quarter notes, and that's on. If you turn that off, now you can just slide it. It's not snapping at all.

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