I think what you are asking is if you import the click track audio from the mp3, will it line up with the pro tools click track, then answer is no and yes. No because pro tools and guitar pro, have their own clocking system, so it will not line up and it will get "all goofy", but when importing that audio track, you can then create a custom tempo map, and manually map out each click in the mp3 into the tempo map, and set your click to that in pro tools, and it will line up correctly, for beat detective and such.

Hope that helps

Ravikash, post: 353464 wrote: I think what you are asking is if you import the click track audio from the mp3, will it line up with the pro tools click track, then answer is no and yes. No because pro tools and guitar pro, have their own clocking system, so it will not line up and it will get "all goofy", but when importing that audio track, you can then create a custom tempo map, and manually map out each click in the mp3 into the tempo map, and set your click to that in pro tools, and it will line up correctly, for beat detective and such.

Hope that helps

thats exactly what I needed! thanks

Be aware that the mp3 format changes the timing of the audio slightly by adding zeroes at the start, so you will probably need to edit the start point of the click track before creating the tempo map. If you can export the click track as a wav file instead you will make your life slightly easier.

Of course, if you can export the click as a midi file it should have all the tempo changes embedded in it already...?

well what we ended up doing was playing the guitar pro file from my drummers laptop and we recorded that straight onto an audio track in protools. No external drive available that would work with a pc :p Do you think the custom tempo map is still possible by doing it this way?

yeah, it will work just fine, it will just be a bit time consuming.

Not sure if your version of ProTools has this feature but I know that there is a feature that will detect peaks and automatically line them up in ProTools. One would think that you could then easily synchronize both click tracks that way. Not even like you have to take it from someone's drumbeat. Haven't any of you other ProTools guys here done that? Not that I haven't manually included hundreds of edits to keep certain non-synchronous items synchronous. But that takes a lot longer than the computer takes. A lot longer.

Can't remember the name of the synchronizing plug-in?
Mx. Remy Ann David

There are many ways to get this done. A simple one is to use Identify Beat (Comm + I). Identify the first beat of the click as bar 1 beat1. Then count through the tune and figure out which bar and which beat the last click happens on, and Identify that beat as well.

If the click is pretty true, you might be good to go. Alternately, you may need to identify other places in the tune if the click drifted. Usually good to do them sequentially from the beginning if you can, as often as is necessary to get it close enough for your needs.

Actually, I think I was talking about "Voc-Align"? It should work with click tracks if it works with vocal tracks shouldn't it? I've never tried nor used it but my buddy Bruce has mentioned it to me numerous times. He tells me it does a great job & quickly. But then he's running an HD 3 system system on Macintosh I think? Not Pro tools LE out-of-the-box. Not sure if it's a native-based plug-in?

Not ProTools fluent
Mx. Remy Ann David