wtf beat detective

[ashgallows]

o.k. pt L.E. I have this song I am remixing. i have all the original raw audio files. I go and analyze the kick track, which is jsut a simple four on the floor beat. it comes up with some shti like 120.432000000 etc. I definitely recorded it at some even number tempo. I used the tab to transient function and selected four bars like you are supposed to...but the tempo keeps coming up wrong and no new midi parts line up right cause obviously the grid is off. any help? any secrets...does this thing just kinda suck in general? I mean what i'm analyzing is practically a click track...

 

[Youowemeapony]

I don't have beat detective in front of me, but it sounds like you're detecting the uncorrected bass drum pattern of a live recording.

the analyze function is mostly for chopping up loops that were recorded as MIDI processed to audio, ensuring that the timing is absolutely perfect.

If you're trying to time correct audio you recorded, you don't need to the Bar|Beat analysis thing, you just start chopping up the audio and moving regions with the other features of beat detective.

hope this helps..?

 

[ashgallows]

the audio is a kick drum sample triggered by a sequencer once on every whole note, just going 1 2 3 4. I am trying to get an accurate tempo/grid so i can layer midi tracks over the already recorded audio. it's just kind of weird that beat detective seemingly can't give me and accurate tempo based on something like that.

 

[AdamWathan]

Download WinBPM and tap out the tempo with your keyboard while listening and it'll tell you what tempo it is... Brilliant little program.

 

[crosstalk]

it comes up with some shti like 120.432000000 etc. I definitely recorded it at some even number tempo.

If it comes out to that and you recorded an even number tempo, have you tried setting the master tempo (whatever it is actually called, I have no PT experience) to 120 bpm? Or does it give you close to 120 one time and close to 130 another time?

 

[James Murphy]

you just have to round it off.... the problem is that PT is very accurate and will analyze a tempo to the hundreths of a beat... and if that analyssis is based on your "slicking up" of existing audio..... there variance is not PT's mistake, if you follow. just find the closest whole number that keeps popping up and round it off to that.

 

[ashgallows]

well weird thing is idid that, and it matched up for a little while but the rest was all out of alignment towards the end. May you know how to do this. I wish i could just say hey this is the beginning of a bar, and this the end of a bar...make every bar on this session exactly this long...i mean why not have an "edit grid" function drag two markers to exactly one bar and hit something that snaps em all that legnth? There were no gaps in the sequencer info i.e. the sequencer has at least one thing triggered the whole song so i know it didn't drift or anything (i recorded all the tracks in different passes).