“don’t snap” and audio tracks

I’m lining up an isolated vocal track on my MPC. I have the sample in an audio track, and I’m nudging the starting point to get the vocal on-beat.

If I try to nudge the sample within the audio track (by selecting the sample with the arrow tool, selecting NUDGE, and using the data wheel to move the sample around), the sample moves in increments equivalent to the TC value (i.e. 1/32). However, if I try to toggle the DON’T SNAP button so I can nudge the sample in a more granular time range, the DON’T SNAP button won’t toggle on. It lights while my finger is on the screen, but when I release my finger it unlights again and remains inactive.

If I go into TC and disable GLOBAL TIMING CORRECT, then I can nudge the sample in very fine increments.

But, why doesn’t DON’T SNAP toggle like it does when nudging MIDI events in the grid editor? Is this a bug? Or am I doing something dumb? I can’t find a way to get the settings for an audio track into any configuration where the DON’T SNAP button will stay toggled on.

Is the track playing while you're adjusting? I've found a similar issue with copy/paste of midi events, copy works while track playing, but to paste the copied events it makes me stop playing before pasting works ....

Same here.. the "Don't Snap" button doesn't seem to toggle on the audio track.

BostonGreen wrote:Is the track playing while you're adjusting? I've found a similar issue with copy/paste of midi events, copy works while track playing, but to paste the copied events it makes me stop playing before pasting works ....

No, the track isn't playing at the time. I thought that maybe DON'T SNAP wouldn't work with specific buttons or states in the audio editor, but nothing I've tried allows the DON'T SNAP to stay toggled.

Am I right that this is a bug? I can't think of any reason that the DON'T SNAP button shouldn't toggle or work just like it does for the grid editor? Did it EVER work? I only started playing around with audio tracks recently so this is the first time I've come across it. At least the TC disablement of global timing works as a workaround, but it's still annoying.

I also wish that I could see the starting position of an audio sample (beats/samples/whatever) like you can with MIDI events in the grid rather than just having to eyeball it.

Totally un-intuitive, but turn OFF time correct (quantize).

Works for me on 2.10.1

you can use it if the GLOBAL TIMING CORRECT is set to ON and you move the audio track by dragging it manually on the touch screen. In that case you can press DON'T SNAP while dragging and global time is disabled as long as the button is pressed. Releasing DON'T SNAP the TIME DIVISION will be reactivated starting from the selected position.