Editing audio at sample level?

hello,
I am recording some sounds from another program into GB2 via jack. when trying to clean up the start and endpoints it always locks to some quantized point (1/64 etc.) is there a way to get in there more precise?

If you turn off snap to grid and then make the waveform as expanded as possible and then make the edit window as large as possible (and it can get vertically pretty large) you should be able to edit anything you find you need to on the waveform of a loop. As awkward as GB's editing features are I have never come across something I couldn't edit away with its features when using them at their max.

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