Delete beats from all soundbites?

[Robert Randolph]

As the title says... I need to delete all 'beats' from every selected soundbite.

I have failed to find this in the manual or via google/youtube if it exists. The only thing I'm aware of is opening the soundbite editor and deleting them one at a time.

[cuttime]

Not in front of DP right now, but I think the "Search" function may accomplish what you want.

[Robert Randolph]

Not in front of DP right now, but I think the "Search" function may accomplish what you want.

I've gone through all the search options and I don't see beats anywhere.

[magicd]

Just curious. Why do you want to delete all found beats in all soundbites?

Dave

[Robert Randolph]

Just curious. Why do you want to delete all found beats in all soundbites?

Dave

So here's the scenario that I've encountered:

• Somehow "Always look for beats automatically in any project that is opened" got turned on. I usually have this off, and I don't recall checking it.
• I recorded a drum track with many comps and overdubs. All of these soundbites in the 18 track recording were automatically beat-detected with their own beat information (this is the core of the problem).
• In this genre of music it's imperative that the kick is quantized dead-on to the grid. Since I use 2 room mics, replacing with MIDI/samples never sounds quite right. DP's quantize usually works well enough if the performance is pretty close.

Now I usually just copy beats from the kick to all other tracks then quantize beats within soundbites. A bit more complex than that since I work in small stages and manually adjust things, but that's the general idea.

The problem is that now I have 200+ soundbites across many files that all have their own beat information.

DP's 'copy beats' function does not overwrite beats on the destination track. So if I try to use 'quantize beats within soundbites' I get some very weird results as all the tracks have different beat information.

The only solution that I know of is to delete all beat information then commence with my normal workflow.

I've already started going through and manually deleting all the information, but it'd be quite useful if there was an easier way to do this.

[bayswater]

Don't have it with me right now, but maybe it can be done with the batch processing in DSP-Q or similar.

[davidh]

Just a thought, what about using Merge Soundbites?
Once you have done all your comping, make sure "Automatically analyze beats in this project" is disabled in background processing prefs, then do a Merge Soundbites on all your drum tracks over the full length of the tune. The newly merged soundbites/tracks should not have any beats in them. Then manually "Find Beats" in your kick track and copy those kick beats to the other tracks. Now create a group from all the drum tracks and edit/split into small soundbites/quantize as necessary.

[bayswater]

That's brilliant, if it works, or even if it doesn't.

[Robert Randolph]

Just a thought, what about using Merge Soundbites?
Once you have done all your comping, make sure "Automatically analyze beats in this project" is disabled in background processing prefs, then do a Merge Soundbites on all your drum tracks over the full length of the tune. The newly merged soundbites/tracks should not have any beats in them. Then manually "Find Beats" in your kick track and copy those kick beats to the other tracks. Now create a group from all the drum tracks and edit/split into small soundbites/quantize as necessary.

Excellent idea!

I think an improvement to this would be to duplicate to a take first then merge soundbites so the edits still exist if it's needed later for some odd reason.

Thanks!