for digital audio heads
The conductor in Pro Tools can be a really frustrating thing until you understand it’s basic function, which is really simple. When turned on, colored blue, it follows the tempo timeline value on the edit screen – usually defaults to 120 bpm. If you want to use Identify Beat or draw tempo changes with the pencil tool in the Tempo timeline area then you want the conductor turned on.
Ummmm… how do you get Identify Beat to read the human tempo correctly?
You have to find the downbeat of each bar, usually the kick is a good place to look, and tell it where it is in the timeline ( starting bar 3 ending bar 5 for example ). Check out the tutorial Pro Tools 8 – Audio Editing 2 for a look at using Identify Beat. You can also use Beat Detective which I’ll be writing an article on very soon.