M-AUDIO Pro Tools Recording Studio - Manual (Page 582)

Pro Tools Reference Guide 564
Separating Multiple Tracks
(Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools LE with Music
Production Toolkit 2 or Complete Production
Toolkit Only)
You can use beat triggers from a single track, or
subset of tracks, to separate a group of tracks.
In the following example, the defined selection
is a drum loop consisting of two bars of 5/4. The
kick, snare, hi-hat, and overhead microphones
are recorded to separate tracks.
Analyzing the loop’s kick drum track, with the
detection Resolution set to Beats, Beat Detective
places beat triggers at the transients on beats 1
and 4 (see Figure 29).
Extending the selection to the snare, hi-hat, and
overhead microphones tracks, and then per-
forming the separation, results in separated re-
gions in each of the drum tracks at the same lo-
cation, based on the beat triggers from the kick
drum track (see Figure 30).
The separated regions can then be conformed as
a group.
You can also use Collection mode (Pro Tools HD
and Pro Tools LE with Music Production
Toolkit 2 or Complete Production Toolkit only)
when working with multiple tracks. Collection
mode lets you analyze and detect triggers on
tracks individually, and if you choose, add only
the unique triggers from the current track to the
overall collection. For more information, see
“Detection (Normal) and Collection Mode” on
page 569.
Beat Detective LE cannot be used across
multiple tracks without the Music
Production Toolkit 2 option. When Beat
Detective LE (without the Music Production
Toolkit 2 option) is applied to multiple
tracks, only the top track is edited.
Figure 29. Kick drum track
Figure 30. Kick drum, snare, hi-hat, and overhead
microphones tracks