i place my beats in correctly, but it WONT line up!

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i dont understand this so much. haah.

so you know on NTRACK - how if you want things to line up perfectly - like RIGHT next to eachother, those little purple rings form around the two audio clips?

i want that same thing to happen in vegas, bvut it wont!

if i zoom in a lot, there is either TOO MUCH space between the two files, or it just overlaps. there IS NO happy medium.

I have, for example, vrs 1 and vrs 2 - both parts of a beat. In vegas, they wont line up right, so when i try to record, it wont be on beat! because there is a little gap there! haha. it's hard to explain, but i think you know what i mean. HOW CAN I DO THIS!? haha.

thanks everyone
scott
 
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You might be snapping to a grid. Since the earlier clip ends in between the gridlines, you either get it to snap to the nearest one to the right, leaving a gap, or the nearest one to the left, which gives you an automatic crossfade where the two loop regions overlap each other.

But the thing is, with ACID, you should be snapping to a grid in general to keep things in tempo, unless these are non-repeating loops. The ends should always fall on a gridline unless you have not been lettting ACID do the beat-mapping and loop strecthing. But that's the whole reason for using it!

Oh, wait, my bad, it's Vegas. Does it even allow looping? I don't think version 3 does, which is what I have, but I seem to recall that version 4 does...
 
Also, are those frames in the scale for the grid, or tempo?
 
shackrock, that is why I don't use Vegas for arrangement. It doesn't line up the waveforms properly.

You would not experience these problems if you used Acid 4.

:cool:
 
crap. well that's a problem.

a - i dont know HOW to change what it snaps to / what the grids show.
b - I have ACID, but ACID won't RECORD - am I right? haha. Sometimes I dont have my shit together - or a band wont have their shit together. So, I like to just mixdown parts (like a verse, and a chorus, for example). Then, as they flow, I can just add/delete verses or chorus' as needed - you know?

crap! haha


that's pitiful, that NTRACK can do it (and be awesome and so somple at it at the same time), and vegas cant!
 
I had this problem before. Let me see if I remember.....

I believe if you go to the Options menu....then uncheck the Quantize the Frames (or Alt F8).

Try to see if that works. If not then I think is the other option: Undo enable snapping (or F8).
 
You can record in ACID, I do it all the time. Well, not really all the time, I eat and sleep and watch TV and stuff sometimes too...
 
Vegas does allow looping. You may also want to take AlChuck's advice and make sure in your Project properties that it is set to the proper tempo.
 
Yes, you can record in Acid.

Unfortunately, you can only record one stereo track at a time. :(
 
Vegas....

F8 = Enable snapping

Ctrl+F8 = Snap to grid

Shift+F8 = Snap to markers
 
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