Using the Pool

The Pool is a collection of transient markers that can be extracted as a groove, and also function as snap locations. A transient marker that belongs to the pool is displayed in the Clips pane as a solid line within the parent track, and as a dotted line outside the parent track. Hovering the mouse over a dotted line will display a tooltip containing the parent track and position.

To show/hide pool lines

1.	Select the Smart tool in the Control Bar.

2.	Assign the desired track’s Edit Filter control to Audio Transients.

3.	Right-click a clip and choose Pool > Show pool lines on the pop-up menu.

Figure 335. Pool lines.

A. Tooltip B. Solid line C. Dotted line

The Track view Time Ruler can be added to the Pool (see To add the Time ruler to the Pool).

To add a clip’s transients to the Pool

1.	Select the an AudioSnap-enabled clip.

2.	Right-click the clip and choose Pool > Add Clip to Pool on the pop-up menu.

To hide or show the Pool

1.	Select the Smart tool in the Control Bar.

2.	Assign the track’s Edit Filter control to Audio Transients.

3.	Right-click a clip and choose Pool > Show pool lines on the pop-up menu.

To add the Time ruler to the Pool

1.	In the Control Bar’s Snap module, set the Musical Time value to the resolution you would like to add to the Pool.

2.	Select the Smart tool in the Control Bar.

3.	Assign the track’s Edit Filter control to Audio Transients.

4.	Right-click in the Clips pane and select Pool > Add MBT to pool on the pop-up menu.

The current Musical Time snap resolution is added to the pool, and also displays dotted pool lines in the Clips pane. This can be useful as either a basic visual guide, or for adding the Musical Time to an extracted groove, or to fill in any transients that may be “missing” in a syncopated or sparse section.

To add transient markers at Pool lines

1.	Select the Smart tool in the Control Bar.

2.	Assign the track’s Edit Filter control to Audio Transients.

3.	Make sure that the Pool contains markers from at least one clip, or from the Time Ruler.

4.	Select the clips that you want to add markers to.

5.	Right-click a selected clip and choose Pool > Apply transient pool markers on the pop-up menu.

Markers appear on the selected clips at Pool lines. When aligning clips on multiple tracks, it is necessary to split and/or quantize all clips at the exact same position in order to avoid phase problems when quantizing audio. In order to do so, it is necessary to establish a common, or “master”, transient reference pool which can be applied to all tracks. The Apply transient pool markers command will use the transient pool as a reference, and insert identical transient markers on all selected clips.

Note: Adding markers at Pool lines can add a lot of markers to a clip. If you later decide that you want to work with the clip’s original markers, you can remove only the markers that you added by right-clicking the transient marker, and choosing Reset from the pop-up menu.