Beat Detective quick guide please !

[gainreduction]

I've never used Beat Detective but need to do so tomorrow. I will be recording drums that are supposed to be quantized exactly to a loop on clients request. How do I do it ? Can someone please save my life and give me a quick BD-for-dummies guide ? Like 1. Select quantize source file 2. select files to be processed and so on...

Thank you ever so much !

[tobymusic]

1. RTFM.

Doesn´t get much quicker than this.

[jpupo74]

Originally Posted by tobymusic

1. RTFM.

Doesn´t get much quicker than this.

Good answer!

[Daddy No]

There are also these articles which give you more of an overview/step-by-step:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug0...toolsnotes.htm
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep0...toolsnotes.htm
(plus there is a good one from SoS December 2005 where an engineer talks through some sessions, step by step, but you'd need a subscription/copy of magazine)

:-j

[Kenny Gioia]

Originally Posted by gainreduction

I've never used Beat Detective but need to do so tomorrow. I will be recording drums that are supposed to be quantized exactly to a loop on clients request. How do I do it ? Can someone please save my life and give me a quick BD-for-dummies guide ? Like 1. Select quantize source file 2. select files to be processed and so on...

Thank you ever so much !

If you give me some real specifics about what you're doing I will be happy to write it all out for you.

Sometime tonite or you can call me while you are doing it tomorrow.

Peace.

[Sqye]

Way to go, Kenny, for being an educator, and helpin' a brother out. You da man.

[pigpen]

Originally Posted by tobymusic

1. RTFM.

Doesn´t get much quicker than this.

Ok, I'll be the first idiot....I stink at acronyms anyway.....
What is RTFM?

(Is is just me or do we have as many abbreviations and acronyms as doctors?) "Use the 414 in an XY, plug in 14, patch that into the 512 and dump that in to the 1176 and finally in to the 560."

[StoneinaPond]

Originally Posted by pigpen

Ok, I'll be the first idiot....I stink at acronyms anyway.....
What is RTFM?

(Is is just me or do we have as many abbreviations and acronyms as doctors?) "Use the 414 in an XY, plug in 14, patch that into the 512 and dump that in to the 1176 and finally in to the 560."

Read The F**king Manual

[pigpen]

Originally Posted by StoneinaPond

Read The F**king Manual

Damn it damn it damn it!!!! (head hits wall repeatedly like high school kid after SAT's)
I really do stink at acronyms!

[max cooper]

Originally Posted by tobymusic

1. RTFM.

Doesn´t get much quicker than this.

I would usually concur, but IMHO it's not written very clearly.

[gainreduction]

Kenny, thanks for your kind offer ! Got it figured out myself.

To you other smartasses... I would RTFM if:

1. I wasn't stuck in session day & night

2. I had the manual since I'm a logic user myself

[StoneinaPond]

Originally Posted by gainreduction

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To you other smartasses... I would RTFM if:

....

2. I had the manual since I'm a logic user myself

Pro Tools Manual

Chapter 21.

[T_R_S]

Originally Posted by max cooper

I would usually concur, but IMHO it's not written very clearly.

The manual worked for me. It took me 15 min. to figure B.D. out. But maybe I am a slow learner.
FWIW Beat Detective is not totally accurate anyway. - The human decsion element will most always work better.

[kenny_popper]

http://www.grooveboxmusic.com/store/home.php?cat=255

Scroll down on the right... a free video on Beat Detective.

Best,

Kenny