"Snap to end"

maxgraham · Post by **maxgraham** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 4:00 pm

i must be missing this, search and couldn't find.

Is there a snap to end feature? if i have a not looped sample (reverse reverb for example) and i want to snap the "end" of the file to a marker (not the start of the file) is there a way to do this?
thanks

Max

Mister36 · Post by **Mister36** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 4:06 pm

Can you not just line it up how/where you want it? Or if it's a quantized length, snap it to the grid but relative to where you want it.

maxgraham · Post by **maxgraham** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 4:15 pm

double post sorry.

maxgraham · Post by **maxgraham** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 4:16 pm

what i meant by "it's not looped" was that it's not quantized so no that wouldn't work. Cubase had a "snap to end of file" feature, woud be a lot easier than zooming all the way in to line up the end of the file.

its a long reverse reverb sound leading up to a kick. so snapping to the same marker the kick is on would be much easier than trying to zoom in and line it up.

Mister36 · Post by **Mister36** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 5:00 pm

What I meant by quantized was just that it sat at a neat length, which doesn't require it to be looped. So, unless there is that feature in Live, the oh-so-arduous task of zooming in and lining it up will have to do. But I'd see if it's possible to make the sample an even length, then you can snap it anyway.

maxgraham · Post by **maxgraham** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 5:05 pm

"the oh-so-arduous"

Sarcasm? awesome.

Mister36 · Post by **Mister36** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 5:28 pm

Only a bit. But then, you could have probably done what you're asking about doing in the time it's taken you to post on here. And it's not like I haven't tried to help and I just posted with pure sarcasm. That would have been rude and pointless.

maxgraham · Post by **maxgraham** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 5:37 pm

yes i could have done it once, but i need to do it over and over for years to come right? sometimes people need to accept that others want to do things and leave it at that rather than decide for them whether its worthwhile or how they should spend their time (learning once versus doing over and over). That being said yes you did try to help and i should have used the word quantized rather than looped.

this feature, for reverse sounds that are not quantized (and there are plenty) was a real help in Cubase. I guess if you were designing for Cubase you would have deemed it not necessary right?

someone clearly found it to be a worthwhile addition, i for one loved it and i'm quite certain plenty of other Ableton users could find use for it also.

Mister36 · Post by **Mister36** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 11:05 pm

I never said that it was unnecessary but the fact of the matter is, as far as I know, that the feature does not exist in Ableton Live and so, as I am not in a position to magically (or otherwise) add that feature to the program, I tried to suggest ways for you to get around this, though they obviously wouldn't be as efficient as the Cubase feature.

I still, however, maintain that you could adjust the length of the sample/clip/recording to be of an exact "quantized" length and use the start snap. For the example of a reversed reverb, the tail end that is actually at the beginning could be extended to make it fit an even length.

maxgraham · Post by **maxgraham** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 11:12 pm

how to you make the start fit an even length if you can't snap the end to something first... maybe you're not sure what i mean or you haven't actually pictured it. I do appreciate the attempt though.

anyone else?

Mister36 · Post by **Mister36** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:17 am

Maybe I don't fully understand what you want to do. But what I mean is that if you have a sample that is exactly 4 bars long and you snap the start of it to the grid four bars before the point where you'd want the end to be snapped to the grid, the end will be in the right place. I'm mainly thinking of when I've used reversed cymbals for what I imagine to be a similar effect to what you are doing with reversed reverb before a "drop".

Vibrations · Post by **Vibrations** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:12 am

Also I am missing the snap to end of clip feature in Live.
Adobe Audition has this feature to.

Mister36 be careful!
Your ego is so swollen - a bit more and you explode.

Mister36 · Post by **Mister36** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:34 pm

Me ego? What are you talking about? I agree that this would be a useful feature. BUT AS IT'S NOT CURRENTLY A FEATURE, I thought I'd try to suggest alternatives. And a little bit of harmless sarcasm never hurt anyone. Hence the harmless part.

anybody human · Post by **anybody human** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 4:53 pm

No, unfortunately Live's arrangement view is missing several basic DAW functions like this. It's called Slip mode in Pro Tools. You could drag it to the grid line if the next clip is exactly on the grid. I really hope they improve arrangement view for Live 9.

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