okay...
well heres how i approach B.D.
just the way i learnt and sure aint the be all/ end all but it works for me...
Create 2 edit groups, one which is Kick Snare Toms; and another which is all drums.
After having comped your drums and duplicated the playlist that the comp is on and done a SAVE AS, (thank me later) Make a selection from the begining of the song up til where the first drum fill is.
Make sure you're in grid mode and make sure the selection starts and preferably ends on a bar. And ISN"T OVER TEMPO CHANGES/METER CHANGES
With only the kick/snare/toms edit group selected (i call it drum bd) bring up the beat detective window (Cmd+8) [im sad the man with the hat has gone in 8... that was my favourite thing about BD]
Then click Region seperation then Capture Selection
Make sure you have a Trigger pad of 10 Ms, and that the contains is right for the content of the beat.
The hit Analyze
then drag the slider towards the right; I've found that around 21-23% is the sweet spot most of the time.
Then quickly check through to make sure there are no mistriggers and remove any by clicking alt or add by dragging the slider up.
Then turn on the all drums edit group, and hit ; to select down and select the rest of the drums
Then hit Seperate
Once this is done switch to Region Conform
now depending on the content of the material and how good the drummer is; this will affect how much you adjust/use these sliders.
For good drummers in More rock stuff i normally do Strength 85-90% And exclude within around 10-15% By the way, be warned if you are running 7.3 that these do NOT work properly
For more metal stuff the settings are generally a little less forgiving, especially if the drummer is punching above their weight; in which case ill just go for 100%.
Then hit conform
Then Hit play and check through to see if any hits got moved to the wrong place and correct them; either by undoing and adjust the conform settings, or by moving manually if it's one hit.
If you did not select from the begining of a bar you may get a "conform bars/beats to new location" message. If you get that just select back to the begining of a bar; even if its over something you've already conformed.
If all's well then move on to the next section .
I work by doing beats in one chunk and then fills seperatly as they tend to be different bar/beat values and this makes it easier/less time fixing mistakes.
Once ive done the whole song, ill listen back through (with all the gaps/cuts) and make any final adjustments.
Then highlight the whole song.
duplicate the playlist.
SAVE AS
then bring up BD and choose Edit Smoothing and fill and crossfade.
Around 5-7 ms normally does the trick.
NOW go grab a cup of coffee/cigarette while Bd fades away.
When its done; consolidate (alt+shift+3) then select unused regions (cmd+shift+u) and remove them (cmd+shift+B) Click REMOVE do NOT for the love of god click DELETE
Then listen through make sure all edits are good, grab and fixes from either your comp playlist or bd playlist.
Once thats done, consolidate again.
SAVE AS
Delete unused playlists - yes the ones with the comp and the bd on them. - thats why youve been hitting save as so often
Clear unused regions -
Voila nice clean drum session.
If you need to grab any other fixes, go back to the other session and grab it from there.
That was epic.
time for a ciggarette.
