I'm going to describe the steps to identify beats. I'm not going to go through describing all of the things you should already know about selecting tracks, linking timeline and edit selections, positioning the insertion point, etc.
You're going to be scrubbing or moving the insertion point to positions within the song and identifying those positions as specific bars. It'll be the first beat of each bar. From here on in, when I say "scrub or move insertion point to" a position in the timeline, it doesn't matter how you get there, as long as the insertion point is located at the beginning of each bar of music. This has nothing to do with bar numbers. You move to the points in the song based on your ears and then you specify the number based on math. It sounds more complicated than it is but only because it's more complicated to put it into words than to actually do it. OK, here we go: Put the insertion point at the beginning of the song. Press command+i to identify the beat. The Identify Beat dialog will open. Don't navigate the dialog because there's no need. Simply type the number 1 and press Return. You've now defined the first point in the song as bar 1, beat 1. Now get the insertion point to the beginning of bar 2. Press Command+i again and this time type 2 and press Return. You've now defined bar 2, beat 1. Continue this process. You don't necessarily have to do each and every bar. You can do every 4 bars or even 8 bars if you want. Thing is, if there are fluctuations in tempo, doing every bar is ultimately better because it'll follow tempo changes more closely. For stuff that is very steady, you can easily identify beats every 8 bars and be fine. Let me stress that you have to be precise with the bar numbers. If you inadvertently identify bar 27 then move 4 bars later but, instead of typing 31, you type 32, your bar numbers will be off and, therefore, your click will speed up inappropriately. You have to be absolutely exact in what you type. That should get you going. Slau -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
