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Adding and Editing Match Points
What are Match Points?
Match points, or M-Points, are “markers” within an Audio Event, used to indicate
significant positions in your Audio file. Furthermore, they contain information
about the “velocity” of the audio at the positions they indicate. Match Points are
used for comparing and combining the timing of recorded audio with the timing of
recorded MIDI material in various ways. Therefore, the goal is most often to get M-
Points on all “beats” in the recorded audio. The picture below shows a drum pat-
tern, with M-Points displayed. Note that the horizontal positions of the Match
Points coincide with the peaks in the audio - the “beats”.
Match points have the following uses:
• Matching tempo to audio.
• Matching audio to tempo.
• Making groove templates by extracting timing and velocity from recorded au-
dio.
• Match quantizing MIDI Parts to Audio Parts, Audio Parts to MIDI Parts or
even Audio Parts to other Audio Parts (after using “Snip at M-points”).
● For more information on the usage of M-Points, see the chapter Matching Au-
dio and Tempo in this Audio addendum to the manual.
Displaying the M-Points
1. Pull down the View pop-up menu.
2. If the Dynamic Events item is not ticked, select it.
This will make the lower halves of the Events show dynamic data (M-Points,
Volume or Pan).
3. Pull down the pop-up menu to the right of the Ed Solo button menu and
select M-Points.
The velocity values of the Match Points (indicated by the vertical position of the black
squares) correspond to the level of each audio peak.
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