Tab to transients

[Stig Eliassen]

You guys do a lot of sound replacing where you tab to transients and inserts a midi note for sample triggering, correct?

I've read all I could find in the PT 7.2 manual about tab to transients, but I'm still having problems. It seems to me that it matters a great deal which zoom level I work in? I've worked my way through a snare track with zoom level 3 (default value) in PT, only to find that it's far from accurate enough. Pasted midi notes appear both before and after the transients found at zoom level 3. I needed to work with a zoom level somewhere between 4 and 5 (near or at sample level) to get it spot on.

Is this your experience too?

[tj_davies]

I hardly use tab to transient, but I was just wondering whether the strip silence might help you more. If it's for drum and percussion sounds, that way you create regions of each hit and can tab from region to region.

Just a thought,

Timothy

[Stig Eliassen]

Thanks, Timothy.

I don't think Strip silence can work with transients, but I might be able to use Separate regions at transients. Then I could tab from region to region as you say.

I need to figure out exactly how transient detection and zoom level interacts though...

[tj_davies]

But that's what strip silence also does. You strip the quiet parts and get the single hits. I don't know seperate to transient, where is that. Always keen to find new tools in Pro Tools.

[Stig Eliassen]

Strip silence uses threshold (-db) to define where to cut, plus region padding and length.

To answer your question - make a selection, and go to Edit > Separate regions > at transients.