The Beat Detective Window; Beat Detective Modes - DigiDesign Pro Tools Reference Manual

The Beat Detective Window

The Beat Detective window appears as shown in Figure 16, below.
Figure 16. Beat Detective (Pro Tools HD shown)
To open the Beat Detective window, do one of the
following:
Choose Event > Beat Detective.
■
– or –
Press Control+8 (Windows) or Command+8
■
(Mac) on the numeric keypad.
Beat Detective is a floating window that can be
left open while working. This lets you adjust the
controls in real time during playback, while
viewing the beat triggers that appear in your se-
lection in the Edit window.

Beat Detective Modes

The Beat Detective window is divided into three
sections: Operation, Selection, and Detection.
Depending on the Operation mode, the con-
trols in the Action section change. The Selection
options for Beat Detective are available in each
of the Operation modes.
The Beat Detective modes include the following:
Operation Lets you choose to analyze either
MIDI or audio material.
Bar|Beat Marker Generation Generates Bar|Beat
Markers corresponding to transients detected in
the audio selection.
Groove Template Extraction Extracts the rhyth-
mic and dynamic information from audio, and
saves this information to the Groove Clipboard,
or as a DigiGroove template.
Region Separation (Audio Only) Separates and
creates new regions based on transients detected
in the audio selection.
Region Conform (Audio Only) Conforms all sepa-
rated regions within the selection to the current
tempo map. Beat Detective can conform audio
regions to groove templates (such as DigiGroove
templates) in addition to standard quantization.
Edit Smoothing (Audio Only) Fills the gaps be-
tween conformed regions by automatically
trimming them, and if you choose, inserts cross-
fades.
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