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Chapter 24: Beat Detective 549
Separating Multiple Tracks
(Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools LE with Music
Production Toolkit Only)
You can use beat triggers from a single track, or
subset of tracks, to separate a group of tracks.
In the following example, the defined selection
is a drum loop consisting of two bars of 5/4. The
kick, snare, hi-hat, and overhead microphones
are recorded to separate tracks.
Analyzing the loop’s kick drum track, with De-
tection Resolution set to Beats, Beat Detective
places beat triggers at the transients on beats 1
and 4 (see Figure 25).
Extending the selection to the snare, hi-hat, and
overhead microphones tracks, and then per-
forming the separation, results in separated re-
gions in each of the drum tracks at the same lo-
cation, based on the beat triggers from the kick
drum track (see Figure 26).
The separated regions can then be conformed as
a group.
You can also utilize Collection mode (Pro Tools
HD and Pro Tools LE with Music Production
Toolkit only) when working with multiple
tracks. Collection mode lets you analyze and de-
tect triggers on tracks individually, and if you
choose, add only the unique triggers from the
current track to the overall collection. For more
information, see “Detection (Normal) and Col-
lection Mode” on page 554.
Beat Detective LE cannot be used across
multiple tracks without the Music Produc-
tion Toolkit option. When Beat Detective
LE (without the Music Production Toolkit
option) is applied to multiple tracks, only
the top track is edited.
Figure 25. Kick drum track
Figure 26. Kick drum, snare, hi-hat, and overhead
microphones tracks