Warping

Warping makes audio follow the project's tempo, so a loop at 90 BPM plays in time in a 120 BPM song, and changes speed when you change the tempo.

Loops and songs

• Loops up to 30 seconds come in warped. Togeda guesses their tempo from the file name, the file's own tempo tag or the loop's length (it prefers tempos near 120, so a beat that could be 60 or 120 BPM comes in at 120).
• Longer files (whole songs, stems) come in at their own speed, and Clip View says so. Press Warp on one, or choose Auto-Warp in Clip View (or right-click its waveform): Togeda finds the tempo and the bars, puts a warp marker on every bar, so a band that speeds up or slows down stays on the grid, and moves the clip so its first downbeat sits on a bar line. One Cmd+Z undoes it. If the song has no steady beat, Togeda says so and Warp comes on at a guessed tempo; set Seg. BPM or add markers by hand.

Clip View

• Warp turns warping on or off for the clip.
• The pop-up next to Warp picks the mode: Complex keeps the pitch (best for full mixes and vocals), Re-Pitch changes pitch with speed like a record, Beats cuts the audio at each hit (best for drums).
• Seg. BPM is the tempo of the clip's audio. ×2 and ÷2 fix a guess that is twice or half the real tempo.
• Transpose shifts pitch in semitones; Formants keeps voices natural when transposed.
• Auto-Warp (in the Beats row) finds the clip's tempo and bars again.
• If a clip can't be stretched to the project tempo, a line under Speed says so and it plays at its own speed.

Warp markers

Warp markers pin a moment in the audio to a beat. Double-click the waveform in Clip View to add one (it snaps to a nearby hit, shown as a grey tick), drag it to move the audio there, and double-click it to delete it. Remove all clears them.

You hear changes at once. While Togeda makes a cleaner version in the background, it plays a live stretch (in Re-Pitch and Beats this sounds like Complex for a moment), then switches to the clean version when you stop or jump.