Pro Tools Reference Guide544
Inserting Beat Triggers
If an important beat or sub-beat is not detected,
because it is too quiet, you can manually insert a
beat trigger.
To insert a beat trigger:
1 With the Beat Detective window open, select
any Grabber tool in the Edit window.
2 Click in the selection where you want to insert
the new trigger. After inserting a beat trigger,
you can drag it left or right to adjust its place-
ment (see “Moving Beat Triggers” on page 543).
If you click too close to an existing trigger, the
existing trigger will be moved to the new loca-
tion.
Promoting Beat Triggers
To ensure that important beat triggers do not
disappear when lowering the Sensitivity value,
you can promote them. This is useful if a selec-
tion has numerous false triggers (too many to
bother deleting) at a Sensitivity level where cru-
cial, necessary beat triggers are also displayed. If
lowering the Sensitivity slider causes the needed
triggers to disappear, simply promote them first.
To promote a beat trigger:
1 Raise the Sensitivity slider until the desired
transient is detected and a beat trigger appears.
2 Control-click (Windows) or Command-click
(Mac) the beat trigger to promote it.
3 If necessary, repeat steps 1–2 to promote addi-
tional beat triggers.
4 Lower the Sensitivity slider to a value where
the false triggers disappear.
Once beat triggers are promoted, they will only
disappear if the Sensitivity value is set to 0%. To
demote all beat triggers in the selection—return-
ing them to their original state—click the Ana-
lyze button.
Redefining a Beat Trigger’s Metric
Location
It is vital that beat triggers are accurately placed
at the correct metric location. If a detected tran-
sient is slightly off the beat, Beat Detective may
assign it, as well as other transients in the selec-
tion, to the wrong metric location.
For example, if you have a bass track where a
note was intended to be a downbeat, but was
played too early, Beat Detective may define its
location as occurring a little before the down-
beat. If you then separate and conform the re-
gion containing this note, it will be moved to
the wrong location. Subsequent regions may be
moved to the wrong locations as well.
If a beat trigger is not assigned the correct metric
location, relocate it using Identify Trigger.
To change the metric location of a beat trigger:
1 Double-click the beat trigger you want to relo-
cate. The Identify Trigger dialog opens.
2 In the Identify Trigger dialog, enter the correct
location for the trigger, then click OK.
Identify Trigger dialog
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