Audio Quantizing and the unwanted "Underwater Effect"

[JSmith1234567]

Hi!

Despite years of using Performer and then DP, and being very, very familiar with it (or at least the stuff I use), I've never really used any time-stretching or pitch-tuning ever.

The guys I hire all play in tune and in time, so it's never ben an issue.

I have one two bar section of finger-picked guitar today that is a little unfortunate in terms of time.

It's a 16th note fingerpicked ostinato.

I watched a couple of videos on quantizing audio in DP, and then tried it different ways, but the audio comes out garbled with an "underwater" kind of sound.

Any tips on this?

Also the Waveform Editor, which is something I've never really used either, going into it and out of it seems to make DP "reload" everything or something similar?

Opening and closing the Waveform Editor, I get about 20 or more seconds of spinning-beach-ball every time.

It's kind of like when you switch buffer size and DP reloads all of your VI's?

Thanks!

[mikehalloran]

How accurate is your signature?

[JSmith1234567]

Hey it took me a minute!

Signature as in the specs of my computer and stuff?

All still the same, except for DP 11.-whatever the latest is currently.

Thanks!

[dwilliams]

I've also not gotten great results with quantizing audio. Maybe I'm not doing it right. But if it is two bars, I would just cut it up and use drag and slip to get the the beats on the grid.

[JSmith1234567]

I swear I did it successfully once years ago, but I didn't write down how, and now I can't seem to do it anymore?

I did notice that there are different playback setting vs ("rendering"?) settings, and I tried that and maybe my Mac Pro is just bogged down?

But then again what would that mean? Mixing at a higher buffer will work?

I kind of ran out of time to mess around with it anymore.