Specifications

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To extract a Groove Template:
1 In the Edit window, make an audio selection.
The selection should consist of one or more
complete bars, starting and ending on down-
beats.
2 In the Beat Detective window, select Groove
Template Extraction mode.
3 Define or capture the selection as described in
“Defining a Beat Detective Selection” on
page 336.
4 Configure the Detection options so the selec-
tion’s peak transients are accurately detected
(see “Generating Beat Triggers” on page 338).
5 Click the Extract button.
6 In the Extract Groove Template dialog, enter
comments about the groove. You can enter a
maximum of 255 characters to describe the
groove. Comments can be viewed using the
Show Info button in the Beat Detective window.
7 Do one of the following:
•To save the extracted template for use in
the current session, without writing the
template file to disk, click Save To Groove
Clipboard. (This template will be lost when
you close the current session.)
•To save the extracted template to disk in or-
der to use it in other sessions or share it
with other Pro Tools users, click Save To
Disk. Enter a name for the template and
click Save. (Do not change the location of
DigiGroove template files and folders or
they will not be available in your sessions.)
• Click Cancel to cancel without saving the
template.
Swing Content for Generating Groove
Templates
When defining swing content of the selection,
select the Contains eighth-note option if the au-
dio selection has a heavily swung eighth-note
groove. If the audio selection has relatively
straight eighth-notes, use the Contains six-
teenth-note option. This lets the resultant Digi-
Groove template be applied more easily else-
where. Although a groove might be based upon
non-swung eighth-note material, you might
want to apply the template to material that con-
tains sixteenth-notes. If a template only has
eighth-note resolution, but the material being
conformed contains sixteenth-notes, adjacent
sixteenth-notes will be mapped to the same
eighth-note location.
When extracting Groove Templates, the
captured selection must not include
Bar|Beat Markers. Otherwise, the accuracy
of the Groove Template will be compro-
mised.
Extract Groove Template dialog
Use folders and subdirectories to organize
DigiGroove templates. However, be sure
they are always located in
Applications/Digidesign/Pro Tools/Groove.
Groove template files located elsewhere will
not be available in either Groove Quantize
or Beat Detective).