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Pro Tools Reference Guide1016
Behavior for Mixed Meters
If the selection contains mixed meters, the groove
template will always be mapped so that the down-
beats are aligned. For example, if the Groove Tem-
plate consists of one-bar of 4/4 and it is being ap-
plied to a selection of one-bar of 4/4 followed by a
bar of 7/16 and one-bar of 5/8, the downbeat of the
Groove Template is aligned with the downbeats in
the selection and only uses the appropriate number
of beats from the Groove Template.
Quantizing Elastic Audio
Pro Tools lets you apply Quantize to Elastic Audio
events as well as MIDI notes. Quantize can be ap-
plied to Event and Warp markers closest to the
quantize grid on Elastic Audio-enabled tracks, re-
gardless of whether they are sample- or tick-based.
When quantizing, Event markers closest to the
quantize grid are promoted to Warp markers and
all Warp markers closest to the quantize grid are
quantized based on the Quantize settings.
Quantization can also be applied to clip start times
(or sync points) on all audio tracks, whether they
are Elastic Audio-enabled, or sample- or tick-
based. This lets you quickly quantize audio clips
without applying TCE, and is especially useful
when working with “one-shot” clips (single-event
clips) such as sliced clips or clip groups.
To quantize Elastic Audio events:
1 Select the audio you want to quantize on Elastic
Audio-enabled tracks. (Audio not on Elastic
Audio-enabled tracks will not be quantized.)
2 Choose Events > Event Operations > Quantize.
3 In the Quantize window, select Elastic Audio
Events
from the What to Quantize pop-up
menu.
4 Set the Quantize Grid and Options settings.
5 Click Apply.
Applying a 1-bar groove template in 4/4 to a 3-bar
selection in different meters
You can reset the groove template grid by
adding a new meter marker (it can be the
same meter). The groove template will
restart at the meter marker regardless of the
measure number or whether or not the
meter has actually changed.
3-bar selection of changing meters
4/4 bar 1
4/4 bar 1
4/4 bar 1
(not used)
Use Restore Performance to undo quanti-
zation of audio and MIDI. See “Restore
Performance Command” on page 1018.