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Beat Detective for Pro Tools: An Overview


Andrei Bobis | March 25, 2017 | Need To Know, Production | No Comments

Beat Detective is one of the most powerful tools that can be found inside Pro Tools it is sort of
like the Swiss army knife of audio production tools. Throughout this article we will be taking a look
at all the things Beat Detective can do for us and we will also give out some examples of how to
integrate it into your workow.

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Beat Detective can be used with any MIDI or audio that was recorded without any timing Pro Tools
reference to create a tempo map of the performance so you can record other MIDI / audio and Every time someone tells you these
quantize them to the initial performance or simply to create a grid for your session. One great are the best
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grid perfectly is not always preferable but it is really useful to know how to if you do end up
needing this capability. Beat Detective can achieve this task for you and align audio recordings to a
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that swing for using on other tracks in the project. Beat Detective enables you to extract the It is rare that someone decides to
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The process of editing things like drums with Beat Detective leaves a plethora of small unedited
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The Beat Detective Window Module into your Pro Tools Setup
Out of all the windows of Pro Tools tools, Beat Detective is maybe one of the most complex and Like me, I am sure that you have
daunting at rst. Understanding how the window is divided and what each pane does will make acquired
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The window is divided into four sections:operation, selection, detection and scrolling.Let us faster in Pro
go through each of them and see what the purpose of each is.

The Operation section in the


Beat Detective window.

This section will allow us to select the operating mode of Beat Detective the names of the
operating modes speak for themselves but lets take a closer look at each:

Bar| Beat Marker Generation You will use this mode when creating tempo maps from
recorded performances. This can be used with both audio and MIDI.

Groove Template Extraction You will use this mode when extracting groove templates from
recorded performances. This can be used with both audio and MIDI.

Clip Separation In order to quantize audio you will need to separate it rst and this operating
mode enables you to do just that. This can only be used with audio.

Clip Conform This operating mode enables you to quantize performances to a predened grid.
This can only be used with audio.

Edit Smoothing Clip separation leaves us with many small clips which will have audible artifacts
from the slicing process. Edit smoothing creates batch fades and lls in the gaps between the
clips. This can only be used with audio.

The Selection section in the Beat


Detective Window.

The Selection section allows us to select what part of the session we will be working on. You
cannot actually use Beat Detective without selecting an area of the timeline rst. You can
introduce the selection manually or capture the selection that you have already made in the edit
window IF A PREDEFINED GRID/ TEMPO MAP EXISTS if you use capture selection when you
are trying to create a tempo map you will fail miserably. To properly create a tempo map you have
to enter the values manually correctly so take some time to count the bars in the song for the
section you are tempo mapping. Also this section enables us to choose the kind of subdivisions
that are played throughout the selection.
The Detection section of the Beat Detective window.

This section is actually only available in theBar| Beat Marker Generation,Groove Template
ExtractionandClip Separationmodes. When selecting the last two operating modes the
detection section turns to the Conform section/ Smoothing section. The Detection section
allows for selecting dierent algorithms to use for analyzing the waveform, the sensitivity of the
analysis (how great the amplitude of a transient event has to be to create a trigger) and the
resolution of the analysis.

The Conform section of the Beat Detective window.

WhenClip Conformis selected the Detection section will switch to Conform and the controls
you will nd here are very similar to the ones you nd in the regular quantize window.
The Smoothing section in the Beat Detective window.

WhenEdit Smoothingis selected the Detection window will turn into Smoothing and it allows
you to choose whether you want batch crossfades or not and the length of the crossfades.

The last section allows us to scroll between trigger events (transient information that the analysis
process detects as relevant to the tempo of the performance) and shows us the progress of a
current operation. Some of the actions Beat Detective can perform are quite CPU intensive so
they might take a while to nish depending on your current system.

The Status/ Scroll section of the Beat Detective window.

Final Thoughts
Beat Detective is by all means one of the most powerful tools in Pro Tools it enables us users to
do amazing things with our sessions and recordings. I keep thinking about how music production
was 20 years ago and how it is today and I sometimes cant believe how much things changed and
how powerful the tools we have today are. Beat Detective is denitely one of those tools I
recommend learning inside and out as you producer chops will greatly benet from this.

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