bgavin, I have Sonar 3.0 and I'm aware of a function that will time correct parts to fit to a drum loop. Is that what Beat Detective does?

Beat Detective examines the sharp transients, such as kick drum. It then does some fancy fade/positioning and aligns it directly on the click beat.

It is a timing correction tool for sloppy drummers. My daughter's drummer is awfully close in her timing, but BD put her kick dead-on with the click. It is remarkable how much this tightens up the final sound.

Kinda like AutoTune, for kick drums.

Crud. I've been doing that manually all this time. I still leave some breathing space so it doesn't sound totally mechanical, especially on double hits, but that sounds a lot more convenient. Maybe too much so. ;)

[[url=http://[/URL]="http://www.drumagog…"]drumagog[/]="http://www.drumagog…"]drumagog[/] is supposed to offer similar functionality to beat detective, and it is a DX plugin.

Hmmmmmmmm, I wonder if you can select an offset to produce that behind the beat feel for swamp music?

Originally posted by riversedge:
Hmmmmmmmm, I wonder if you can select an offset to produce that behind the beat feel for swamp music?

yes

Cool! Thanks RM.

Originally posted by heinz:
[[url=http://[/URL]="http://www.drumagog…"]drumagog[/]="http://www.drumagog…"]drumagog[/] is supposed to offer similar functionality to beat detective, and it is a DX plugin.

Drumagog is brilliant plugin for triggering, but doesn't help with timing. Regrettably, I think beat detective's got that market to itself.

I do it manually. Sounds better, I tell myself . . .

I suppose you COULD bounce out to midi from drumagog, quantize, then resample. That doesn't really count though, since you aren't going to be using the original tracks. And it doesn't do anything for bleed through overheads, etc.

I've never looked when client occasionally brings it into my studio on a laptop... Does Pro Tools LE have Beat Detective?

Dunno. We were in a high-end PT studio running the latest version of the full blown package.

When I'm only the gear lumper, I keep a respectful distance from the engineer during sessions. This includes keeping quiet.