Quantizing Drums with Identify Beat and Beat Detective.

Noize919 · 5th May 2008

ok ok.....So I have a few multi-track sessions of JUST drums that were NOT recorded to a click.

I am quite familiar with Identify Beat and Beat detective but I am having trouble CONFORMING the audio properly to the tempo.

I ofcourse found my tempo using Identify Beat on a couple of bars that I selected. Now my question is should i NOT quantize the whole song to ONE tempo?? Or do I need to go all the way through, bar by bar and set tempo markers using Identify Beat?

If I were to do this, wouldn't that mess up the final product...having many different tempos?

It's metal by the way...so if it sounds mechanic, then I WIN!

THanks

O h yeah, I forgot to add...I'm in 7.4 and i heard BD got an upgrade, anyone know about this?

JDN · 5th May 2008

if it's not too far off, i'd do the whole thing to a single tempo, and beat detective to that tempo, i can't imagine the maximum tempo differences are more that a few BPM's

Noize919 · 6th May 2008

thanks for the reply.

i guess i just need more practice with beat detective.

it seems like the first bar or two i do, it works brilliantly...but then after that it's pretty much useless, sigh.

thanks.

zakco · 6th May 2008

Are you using "collection mode"?

5th May 2008	#1
Noize919 Gear nut Joined: May 2008 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 141 Thread Starter	Quantizing Drums with Identify Beat and Beat Detective. ok ok.....So I have a few multi-track sessions of JUST drums that were NOT recorded to a click. I am quite familiar with Identify Beat and Beat detective but I am having trouble CONFORMING the audio properly to the tempo. I ofcourse found my tempo using Identify Beat on a couple of bars that I selected. Now my question is should i NOT quantize the whole song to ONE tempo?? Or do I need to go all the way through, bar by bar and set tempo markers using Identify Beat? If I were to do this, wouldn't that mess up the final product...having many different tempos? It's metal by the way...so if it sounds mechanic, then I WIN! THanks O h yeah, I forgot to add...I'm in 7.4 and i heard BD got an upgrade, anyone know about this?

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JDN Lives for gear Joined: Dec 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 746	if it's not too far off, i'd do the whole thing to a single tempo, and beat detective to that tempo, i can't imagine the maximum tempo differences are more that a few BPM's

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Noize919 Gear nut Joined: May 2008 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 141 Thread Starter	thanks for the reply. i guess i just need more practice with beat detective. it seems like the first bar or two i do, it works brilliantly...but then after that it's pretty much useless, sigh. thanks.

6th May 2008	#4
zakco Lives for gear Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,391	Are you using "collection mode"?