Beat Detective Help

[ronstephens]

With the help of contributors to this board I have become fairly proficient at using Beat Detective to align audio to the midi/tempo track. But there’s still something I can’t figure out.

How do I get Beat Detective to conform one audio track (say, a bass guitar) to the generated tempo map of another track (say, a kick drum) Or, if I want to conform a loop (fixed tempo) to an audio track (generated tempo)?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Ron Stephens
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[ronstephens]

Really? Two days and no one has any advice?

[maxx]

I'd love to find the answer to this as well. Seems like it should be doable. It's a pity Beat Detective is not as intuitive as it could be.

How nice it would be to have Beat Detective analyze a bar or two of drums, then export a "groove template" in a single step, then use it to slice up the bass track and and simply apply a "groove quantize" to the chopped up performance, locking it to the drums.

I know it can be done currently but it's a more tedious, multi-stage process.

[peteri]

It's very easy - not that hard to work out either [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

If you look in page 287 of your PT reference guide it's explained there - but in summary,

select audio
press the 2nd button down on bt - region separation
capture selection
analyse/play with settings
hit 'separate button'.

then press the 3rd button 'region conform'

select how much conforming you want done.

press the conform button.

You can then use the smoothing tab to crossfade between all these new regions.

cheers

Pete

[ronstephens]

I think you skipped a step Pete.
I know how to capture, analayze and separate. But how do I conform another track to the tempo map of the one I just analyzed?

RS

[Tweakhead]

Originally posted by ronstephens:
I think you skipped a step Pete.
I know how to capture, analayze and separate. But how do I conform another track to the tempo map of the one I just analyzed?

RS

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I think Ron knows already.... he's just testing us.

...but if not, then here's a clue....

ever notice that little button called 'generate' ?

[ronstephens]

Sorry man, but I don't know.

Specifically, I don't know how to tell Beat Detective to use a generated tempo map as a template to conform another track to.

Can anhyone help?

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[ronstephens]

OK. I went back to the manual for the umpteenth time, worked through the exact same steps for the umpteenth time and, lo and behold, it worked exactly as I thought it should.

So.... never mind. And thanks all.

R.S.