M-AUDIO Pro Tools Recording Studio User Manual
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Chapter 28: Beat Detective
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Promoting Beat Triggers
To ensure that important beat triggers do not
disappear when lowering the Sensitivity, you can
promote them. This is useful if a selection has nu-
merous false triggers (too many to bother delet-
ing) at a Sensitivity level where crucial, neces-
sary beat triggers are also displayed. If lowering
the Sensitivity and the needed triggers to disap-
pear, simply promote them first.
To promote a beat trigger:
1
Raise the Sensitivity until the transient is de-
tected and a beat trigger appears.
2
Control-click (Windows) or Command-click
(Mac) the beat trigger to promote it.
3
If necessary, repeat steps 1–2 to promote addi-
tional beat triggers.
4
Lower the Sensitivity to a value where the false
triggers disappear.
Once beat triggers are promoted, they will only
disappear if the Sensitivity value is set to 0%. To
demote all beat triggers in the selection—return-
ing them to their original state—click the Ana-
lyze button.
Redefining a Beat Trigger’s Metric
Location
It is vital that beat triggers are accurately placed
at the correct metric location. If a detected tran-
sient is slightly off the beat, Beat Detective may
assign it, as well as other transients in the selec-
tion, to the wrong metric location.
For example, if you have a bass track where a
note was intended to be a downbeat, but was
played too early, Beat Detective may define its
location as occurring a little before the down-
beat. If you then separate and conform the re-
gion containing this note, it will be moved to
the wrong location. Subsequent regions may be
moved to the wrong locations as well.
If a beat trigger is not assigned the correct metric
location, relocate it using Identify Trigger.
To change the metric location of a beat trigger:
1
Double-click the beat trigger you want to relo-
cate. The Identify Trigger dialog opens.
2
In the Identify Trigger dialog, enter the correct
location for the trigger, then click OK.
Navigating Consecutive Beat Triggers
Use the Scroll Next button to move from the cur-
rently selected beat trigger to the next beat trig-
ger. To move to the previous beat trigger, Alt-
click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac) the Scroll
Next
button. This is particularly useful for edit-
ing consecutive beat triggers when zoomed in at
the sample level.
Promoting a beat trigger
Identify Trigger dialog