How to Use the Snap Function in Cubase | Q&A with Greg Ondo

What is the snap function available Cubase and how can it help you? Well Greg’s there to elaborate on editing based on snap. You get to find out how to work with snap, how to turn the snap function on and off, and there are many useful examples of cutting and editing audio with snap.

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[aspsa]

A practical collection of tips excellently presented. Very snappy.

[lloydcooke]

Thanks Greg, this is very helpful, really enjoyed your videos and the way you make things sound so easy to understanding, this is a game changer! 💯👌🏽

[jaseyn]

Thanks, Greg!
It would be great to mention in this video about snap modes and snap-to-cursor key command. Snapping to some portion of audio is great, but doing this manually very tediously. But Grid Relative mode, which you quickly show in last hangout solves all problems. Thanks for that!

[DanielVince]

Great explanation and very cool tips. Thanks a lot

[nikibuz]

man!!! so many years i did not knew it!!!! very great

[tomswee]

Great Tip! This is the kind of tip we need. It can be very frustrating for us when we come to a problem and we can´t solve,
and Cubase man
ual is hopeless to find solutions.

Anaway Great tip!
Keep on for those small tips it´s a very big help for us!

Tom

[frankhowell]

Thanks Greg! Very helpful. I did not know there was a nudge feature and I could have used that snap to a part on one of my songs. Have a great day and hopefully no snow like New York is about to get hammered with!

[HansolJang]

aewsome. next time I want to see about all about grid change.

[onlyposting]

wow, the tip about defining the snap point is simply incredible. one of the best tips ever.thanks.

[NotSoWickedElphaba]

I can't set the snap point. There's no "s" to be seen and the icon you click isn't on my tool bar. I went to the toolbar settings and everything that can be displayed is. Any idea?

[ewanbirch]

Anyone know how I snap the loop regions to markers?

[natemueller]

How do you snap to an events right side?

[claudius]

Adjusting snap point in the lower zone editor : great tip indeed! Thanks Greg, you rock! ;-)

[drcomposer]

Hi Greg! At 5:16 you show how to move the Event Snap Point. Is there a way to make that new snap point permanent so that if the audio file is imported into another Cubase session it retains this new snap point? Thanks!

[Tutorial_ism]

Is it possible to get VariAudio/AudioWarp to snap to the quantize? It seems like it should be possible but I can't figure out how

[mehranmosaddeq]

At first thought it'd be really basic, but at the end stil some stuff to learn for me in this Vid. Many thanks Greg you're great as always.

[volodymyrmatviichuk]

How possible make snap triplets or fifths in sample editor, same as quantize snap in Key editor?

[jacksorjacksor]

Hi Greg, thanks for this!
At 3:44 you nudge based on 'Seconds', setting the quantize to various values like 1ms or 10ms. This works fine in the Main Window but isn't working for me in the Key Editor; when in the Key Editor (with the ruler set to 'Seconds') the quantize value is greyed out on the word 'Grid' and nudging seems to only be working in 1/8th notes, not 1ms (or whatever quantize time I've set in the Main Window).
Any thoughts on this? This has left me being able to nudge events in the Main Window by smaller increments than in the Key Editor, or rather I'm unable to nudge events in the Key Editor by 1ms.
Thanks!
Rich

[BobvsBob]

ah thanks. everything else was pretty intuitive for me. but the snap point got me going there

Been using ( user ) setting for years to get close edits, sad, so easy when you know how. Thanks.