Adobe AUDITION 1.5 - Manual (Page 207)

199 ADOBE AUDITION 1.5
User Guide
6 Click the Play Looped button to repeatedly play your selection.
7 Adjust the start and end of the selection until just the material you want is selected.
8 Choose View > Display Time Format > Edit Tempo to specify detailed tempo infor-
mation for the loop. (See “Calculating the tempo of selected ranges” on page 199.)
9 Choose Edit > Copy To New. This step copies the selected area to a new file where you
can set the loop’s properties. (See “Setting permanent loop properties in Edit View” on
page 200.)
Calculating the tempo of selected ranges
In both Edit View and Multitrack View, you can calculate the tempo of a selected range by
using the Edit Tempo command. This command lets you quickly determine loop tempo
in Edit View or change session tempo in Multitrack View. It also lets you change the beats-
per-minute (bpm) value for horizontal rulers in the Bars and Beats time format.
To calculate the tempo of a selected range:
1 Choose View > Display Time Format > Edit Tempo.
2 Set the following options, and click OK:
Beats Highlighted/Bars Highlighted Specifies the number of beats or bars highlighted in
the selection according to the Bars and Beats format. This number will probably be wrong
initially, because you haven’t defined the tempo yet. In this case, enter the correct number
of bars to use for extracting tempo information.
Extract Calculates tempo information from the highlighted selection, and fills in the Beats
per Minute and Offset values. Before clicking Extract, make sure to enter a value for Beats
per Bar.
Current Beat At Defines the bar and beat information for the selection’s starting point (or
the current cursor position if no selection has been made). Adobe Audition assumes that
this represents a downbeat. Changing this value updates the Song Start value based on the
current tempo settings.
Reset 1:1 To Cursor Changes the Current Beat At value to 1:1.00.
Song Start Represents the number of milliseconds before the measure 1:1.00 begins. This
value is for information only.
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