Soundtoys Crystallizer - Manual (Page 19)

starting and ending beat numbers for the selection. Pro Tools will then calculate
the correct tempo based on this. If the tempo of your music varies (which it prob-
ably does if it wasn’t recorded to a click), then you may need to repeat this proce-
dure at various points in your song to keep the beat locations lined up correctly.
Hint: It is very, very useful to use a drum track along with the tab to transient
feature within Pro Tools to help with this. If you’re a Pro Tools TDM user, you may
also want to learn about Beat Detective, which can help to automate this potentially
tedious process.
19
More Info: All of this and more are covered in great detail in the Pro Tools manual.
For info about tempo maps and conductor tracks look at Chapter 21 of the Pro Tools
6 reference guide. For info about Beat Detective see Chapter 22, and for info about
the extremely useful tab to transients feature read Chapter 16, Playing and
Selecting Audio.
Using the HTDM version of Crystallizer
If you are a Pro Tools TDM user, Crystallizer is also available as an HTDM plug-in, and
will appear in the TDM inserts menu of Pro Tools. The HTDM version is available
because RTAS plug-ins cannot be used on aux tracks and cannot have real-time
monitoring when used within Pro Tools TDM systems.
The HTDM format allows native plug-ins like Crystallizer to be used just like TDM
plug-ins (except that the host CPU is used for processing instead of the DSP chips on
the DSP farm cards). One very big caveat here is that the HTDM format causes
significant latency (or delay) in the audio stream.