awjoe wrote:DC-Choppah wrote:Protools
1) Beat Detective
It finds the BPM? How is that useful?
Hmmmm, I guess some don't know what beat detective does.
Beat detective frees your music from a rigid click track but still allows the audio to be quantized to the groove/feel. The quantized groove track can be derived from one of the performers with the best feel and the other audio locked on to that groove. Beat detective handles all the operations.
Basically beat detective has many steps to it that you can use in a sequence of operations to align real time audio to a human generated groove.
- Identification of the beats that establish the groove from a performance.
- Generation of a groove (tempo map) for the whole session.
- Conforming of a track to the groove by splitting it into zillions of micro-clips
- Aligning each micro-clip with varying amount of swing, etc.
- Automatically filling in of clips after aligning.
- Automate cross-fading and editing of the audio to put it back into a single audio clip.
- Aligning of both MIDI and audio to the same groove.
I suppose if Beat detective was added to a DAW now they would call it 'AI'. Back in the day it was just Beat Detective and shaped music history.
Beat Detective keeps the music human and with groove and feeling while allowing a grid-like editing process to line everything up.
The computer conforms to the human rather than the other way around.