Pro Tools:Using beat detective to conform MIDI tempo to audio region

If you add an audio file that is tempo or rhythm based and would like to conform the MIDI tempo of your session to "fit" the region follow these steps

Make sure the bar ruler displays bars and beats or whatever respective time value is necessary

In the image below we have a drum file that is 2 bars long but the MIDI tempo of Pro Tools is different than our file, hence it doesn't correlate with the bar and beats ruler



We are going to change this using beat detective by changing the MIDI tempo of the session.

Select Beat detective

Event / Beat Detective



Select the region and in beat detective set the start and end points of where it should fit.

Then click analyze

Then click generate



The end result should be a MIDI tempo or tempo change that accomodates the audio region and conforms to the settings made in beat detective.

In this example the MIDI tempo changed to conform to an audio file that was 2 bars long