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Available

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May 1st, 2009

Got some drum loops to edit? You need Beat Detective! These tutorials will help you slice beats like a pro ...

It slices! It dices! And it makes your beats groove, too. It's Beat Detective, the extremely powerful yet underused beat slicing tool that is part of Pro Tools. In this two and a half hour course, Pro Tools master Scott Freiman will teach you everything you need to know to become a Beat Detective expert.

Most people think that Beat Detective is a tool for working with loops, but that doesn't even scratch the surface of what Beat Detective can really do. Beat Detective allows you to extract tempo changes from almost any audio, as well as MIDI tracks, or you can align your tracks to the session tempo. You can quantize your audio using specific grooves and even use Beat Detective to create your own grooves. Beat Detective helps you tighten up performances, match loops to each other, and create remixes. It can even help in smoothing post production edits when working with video.

Scott Freiman walks you through detailed examples of each of these uses for Beat Detective, as well as many other examples. Whether you're a new Pro Tools user or a seasoned veteran, you are bound to pick up some powerful techniques from this course.

This is a comprehensive tutorial, but you don't need to watch the entire show. Use the keyword search function and detailed menus to quickly find items of interest. For a full list of this tutorial's topics, see the Table of Contents.

• Pro Tools 101: Core Pro Tools 9
• Pro Tools 203: Video Post in Pro Tools
• Pro Tools 204: Beat Detective
• Pro Tools 205: Elastic Audio
• Pro Tools 401: Mastering In Pro Tools
• Pro Tools 402: Mixing Pop in Pro Tools
• Pro Tools 9 What's New: What's New In Pro Tools 9

For a full list of the topics covered, see the Tutorial Outline
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• Beat Detective
• 1: Introduction to Beat Detective
• 06:04
  01. Options for Realigning Audio
• 01:39
  02. What Can Beat Detective Do?
• 04:04
  03. The Beat Detective Window
• 04:43
  04. Samples and Ticks
• 2: Putting Beat Detective to Work
• 03:44
  05. Extracting Tempo from Audio I
• 05:51
  06. Extracting Tempo from Audio II
• 03:20
  07. Extracting Tempo from Audio III
• 03:09
  08. Extracting Tempo from MIDI I
• 03:26
  09. Extracting Tempo from MIDI II
• 04:35
  10. Extracting Tempo from MIDI III
• 04:21
  11. Aligning Audio to the Beat I
• 03:55
  12. Aligning Audio to the Beat II
• 04:12
  13. Creating a DigiGroove I
• 03:24
  14. Creating a DigiGroove II
• 05:07
  15. Creating a DigiGroove III
• 06:11
  16. Creating a DigiGroove IV
• 03:39
  17. Tightening Up! I
• 05:11
  18. Tightening Up! II
• 02:56
  19. Tightening Up! III
• 03:38
  20. Loop Matching I
• 03:12
  21. Loop Matching II
• 04:15
  22. Loop Matching III
• 05:33
  23. Working with Foley
• 3: Advanced Beat Detective
• 04:12
  24. Editing Beat Triggers I
• 02:29
  25. Editing Beat Triggers II
• 03:08
  26. Conforming Options I
• 03:05
  27. Conforming Options II
• 02:42
  28. Conforming Options III
• 02:56
  29. Working with Multiple Tracks I
• 03:22
  30. Working with Multiple Tracks II
• 02:54
  31. Working with Multiple Tracks III
• 02:14
  32. Working with Multiple Tracks IV
• 03:45
  33. Collection Mode I
• 02:30
  34. Collection Mode II
• 02:34
  35. MIDI and Multiple Tracks I
• 03:09
  36. MIDI and Multiple Tracks II
• 4: One More Example
• 01:39
  37. Step 1 - Audition Loops
• 03:03
  38. Step 2 - Extracting the Groove
• 04:58
  39. Step 3 - Working with the Vocal
• 04:42
  40. Step 4 - Working with the Remaining Loops
• 03:25
  41. Step 5 - Cleaning Up
• 03:44
  42. Tips To Get the Best from Beat Detective

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