Let me know if you need any help. I was using Record Beats again last night and followed it with Adjust Beats. If you can wrap your head around the way it works, Record Beats actually is pretty effective. I think there is a delay happening, because i'm using it with a VI and a fairly good-sized buffer. I don't think it's compensating for that latency, because all my beats are about an 8th note off. I was able to shift the whole thing, conductor track and all, and it worked out ok. I had to shift the notes and data a little farther than the conductor track's tempo tics. To compensate for this latency, you might want to set your MIDI output for an external rack instrument and lower your buffer to 64.rentadrummer wrote:I'm not Waxman but I've thinking about what you just described. I'm wondering if Tap Tempo isn't what I need in the first place, and I should be using Adjust Beats.
You once explained to me how to use this feature on a drum track I had already recorded, but now I'm thinking I might be able to use it on an audio band track, before I record the drums, to align the original audio track to the grid first. I'm not sure if I understand it well enough to know if this will do what I want it to, but I'll look at your old emails with the info and play around with it. As long as it doesn't move the original audio on the time line, and just shifts the bar lines, this could be a good solution.
In fact, I'll just share some observations about it right now. I think it works best in combination with the WAIT function. Use "Tap is First Beat." If you have any data before the first note, don't shift data to 1.1.000. That could include a pickup beat, patch changes, controllers, and so forth. But if your downbeat note is the first thing out there, you might try checking that box.
Also, since I have controllers before the first note (the shift pedal on the piano VI I was using), I actually shifted everything to start at bar 2, and then set the sequence to start on bar 0. ("Set Chunk Start" in the Chunks Window mini-menu) The net result is that my music starts on bar 1, but there's a measure "0" preceding it which contains my controllers that begin before the beat of bar 1. This whole paragraph may be of no use to you if you don't have controllers or other data preceding the first measure, or if your music does not start with a pickup.
From this point on, it's pretty straightforward. Just set your cursor (the green wiper) to the first tappable beat, click the "WAIT" button (or hit / on the keypad), select Record Beats, and start tapping. You can watch the cursor approaching the notes for an extra visual cue to help with the timing if the beat is rubato.
Don't make any mistakes, because it's hard to fix them. Often it's easier to Undo the whole thing and start again.
Shooshie
