Snapping in Cubase: Cubase Tutorial

Video Transcript

"Hey everybody! My name is Matt and I am speaking to you on behalf of Expert Village. Now I am going to talk about snapping. For those of you who don't know snapping, basically locks an object to place and time and usually in most cases going to be a beat. This is the snap on/off button right here. You can toggle it by clicking that or also by clicking the j button on your keyboard. Right now it is off. I can slide my event anywhere on the time line. But if I turn it on, it is going to snap to each individual bar. Now snapping to a bar because that is what it is set to right here. You can also set it to snap to each individual beat which is set right now at a quarter note or if you go down and click use quantize, you can set it to an even more detailed sampling. I am going to set it now to an 8 and that will snap your even to each 8th note between your bars. If you right click here at the top of the time line, you can also change it's set to bars and beat right now. You can also set the timing to seconds to time codes, to samples, such things and you can snap to those time frames as well but for the most part, you are going to want to use bars and beats. So you can see how useful when snapping can be when you are making music and it is especially helpful when you want to go and loop music such as drum beats and such things. We will get into looping a little bit later but for now, I hope you can see how snapping helps out. There are a couple of more options if you click right here. You can snap it to different things and snap different ways but I will let you figure that out for yourself. "