Snap to/Edit at Zero Crossing

This week I've seen demonstrations of Wavelab and Nuendo and they have a feature that would be very nice to have in Pro Tools. In both when you edit, the edit happens at the closest zero crossing. No pops or clicks ever and no need for fades in or out at an edit point. I saw an edit in what would be shuffle mode for PT and the two regions came together at zero crossing and were virtually seamless - very nice. I'm assuming that Playback and Punch-in also happen at zero crossing so there are no pops and clicks when you start play or record or when you stop. You can also toggle the feature on or off, although I can't think of too many times I'd want it off. Has anyone heard if this is something Digi has considered and rejected or if it's something for a future update - like for XP/OSX? Mister Sumich would you care to comment if you can? Cheers,

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I would love to have snap to zero in PT. It's amazing that they haven't implemented this feature. Software Audio Workshop (SAW) had this in 1994 !

Why not just use your eyes ... it's very obvious where the zero crossing is seeing as PT is one of the VERY few audio applications that lets you get right down to the sample in zoom with accurate waveform representations. Alternatively on more percussive stuff why not just use the tab to transient function, you can edit drums incredibly fast with this feature Cheers, Marcus

But it still would be nice if they implement this function in ptle (with an on/of switch in preferences....). To my surprise TDM-systems also dont have that function, but they make small crossfades to prevent the click.... (the on/off feature is needed if you do post-work for video/film where the tracks can't be moved, otherwise they'll be out of sync. Half a wave isnt that much, but if you repeat that say 100 times (100 edits) it could get noticable. Not a nice thing to happen in a movie.....)

Hi Bastiann, My understanding is not that the region would be moved to zero crossing, just that the edit point would happen at a zero crossing. However, you're absolutely right, there would have to be an on/off toggle. And as noted above, while we can zoom down to sample, if you have to do hundreds of edits, it would be a lot easier not to have to zoom in and find the zero crossing every time. Cheers

As we so often say, someday???? I know the Digi people are well acquainted with SAW. The zero-crossing feature in that app did have a hot key on-off toggle. A real timesaver.

Tell me about it man! I've been having to plop whole albums and so forth into Goldwave to cut them up. A $30.00 wave editor has "snap to zero crossing". heh -Travis