If it feels like I’m labouring the point about being careful with your selections that’s because I am. Hit Command+Control+P to switch to Dynamic Transport (Screen 1, above), and move the blue Play Start triangle to just before the loop point to audition the loop without wasting any time! A far quicker way is to go into the often forgotten Dynamic Transport Mode, introduced way back in Pro Tools 8. Hitting Command+Shift+L to loop playback and make sure that your selection is correct is fine for short selections, but waiting for eight bars just to check the loop point is a huge waste of time. While most of the time it’s pretty clear where the current start and end points are for your selections, the best way is of course to listen. These will probably be a little off, but holding Shift while dragging or using Tab to Transients will get things lined up neatly. If you’re finding it difficult to visually identify the correct beat to start or end your selection on, you can hit the down arrow during playback to set the ‘in’ point of your selection and hit the up arrow to set the ‘out’ point. Use Tab to Transients to Tab up to the downbeat of the first bar of your selection, and if you can visually identify the corresponding downbeat four or eight bars later then Shift‑click just before it to extend your selection to that point and, while still holding Shift, hit Tab to move the selection up to the downbeat. The most important thing is to check your selections. It only takes a single bar of 2/4 you hadn’t noticed to throw everything out! Get Selecting The temptation is to make a big 80‑bar selection and hit Generate, but while this might work on very straightforward material, once you have had a problem with Beat Detective misinterpreting the audio you’ll end up spending longer figuring out what went wrong than it would have taken to work in smaller selections. If it was your assistant you’d tell it to slow down and pay more attention!Ĭreating a tempo map is straightforward as long as you check your work, and work through the song one short section at a time. It’s really important to check everything Beat Detective does because while it’s fairly good, it often gets things wrong. This is where the biggest caveat to using Beat Detective comes in. The only difference is that Beat Detective creates them automatically. There isn’t any practical difference between using the Identify Beat command, as used in last month’s column, and using Beat Detective to create bar and beat markers. The example of this semi‑automation I’m going to concentrate on here is the generation of bar and beat markers. Many of the features of Beat Detective are available as manual operations elsewhere in Pro Tools, but as we’ll see the Beat Detective interface is essentially a big macro of these functions, and it can perform many of the tasks semi‑automatically. There is a feature in Beat Detective which can help with this but I’ve always found it more straightforward to do the first steps manually. In SOS October 2020’s Pro Tools column I covered the biggest obstacle to using Beat Detective on a track which wasn’t recorded to a click: the fact that the session’s grid is unrelated to the audio recorded. This is where Beat Detective can really help. Being able to build an accurate tempo map around that recorded performance will let you bring in loops, sequences and other forms of ear candy that can really elevate a track, and while recording to a click can achieve much the same, it’s often very unpopular with bands who are used to playing live. I’ve always preferred the latter approach where possible, but that assumes that the drummer was playing well and holding the band together like a good drummer should, and also that the recording was a traditional band recording capturing a group of players in the room at the same time playing together. The first is to make recorded drums lock in with loops, MIDI or a click track the second is to leave the timing of a drum recording unchanged, but to use that timing information to create a tempo map so that you can pull other material in and have it locked in time with the drums. We show you how to make a tempo map with Beat Detective.īeat Detective is normally used for one of two things. Screen 1: Dynamic Transport Mode makes it quick and easy to audition your selections.
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