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Synth Templates. Stop re-inventing the wheel and see how to get yourself some hot synth templates you can bring into sessions when you need them. Create Big Sounds. Find out how to layer sounds, create splits, add effects and more in Xpand2 to create your own big synth sounds. Custom Arpeggiators. You don't have to rely on the factory arpeggiators. Russ shows how easy it is to create your own to use in a song, save and use later.

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Find out just how powerful the arpeggiators in Xpand2. Russ shows you how to get inspired and create complex and powerful soundscapes.

Synth Filter Sweeps. Find out how to get that cool synth filter sweep sound on your synths and drums, that's at the heart of today's top pop and dance hits. Synth Kick Drum. For some tracks sampled drums are just not enough. Russ reveals how to create your own synth kick drums that will add meat to your tracks.

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If you can't see it, make sure the MIDI controls section is showing in either area. It's also possible to tap in your tempo, by highlighting the tempo field in the transport window, and hitting the T key in time with the music. Tap tempo isn't accurate enough for tempo mapping or quantising as errors will tend to accumulate and your grid will quickly wander out of sync, but to get a close starting point it can be very useful.

The second tempo mode uses the Conductor Track. When engaged, the session tempo follows tempo changes on the tempo ruler, and this can be used to build a map of varying tempos, so that rather than move the performance to fit a fixed grid, you get the grid to fit the performance.

I find the best way to start with a session which isn't recorded to a click is to take a hybrid approach, starting in manual tempo mode and moving on to the Conductor Track later. The Identify Beat command will be greyed out until you turn on the Conductor Track.

A useful first step is to manually identify the tempo, just so that you know what it is. It saves time if you make a mistake and incorrectly identify the tempo later. It will be discarded soon but it's so quick to do that you might as well. Create a click track from the track menu. Now, unless your track happens to be at exactly the default of bpm, the click will be so far out of time that it will be distracting, so best to disable it by clicking on the metronome button in the transport window or by hitting 7 on your keyboard's numeric pad.

Start playback in manual tempo mode and tap in the tempo. When you have the tempo the click will be roughly in time with the music but it won't be aligned with the beats. To fix this you need to tell Pro Tools where the first downbeat is. This is done using the Identify Beat command. If your drums start at the first bar then you can identify the first kick drum assuming there is a kick on the first beat as beat 1 of bar 1, and you're all set. However, as a great deal of music starts with something other than the drums, and even music which does start with the drums usually involves some form of pickup fill, the first beat you Identify will probably be at a bar other than 1.

In the example pictured there is a short pickup on the drums. My preference is always to work in multiples of four bars, so in this case I'll find the first downbeat and Identify it as beat 1 of bar 5, so that the first four bars only contain the intro fill. The best way to move the insertion point to this first hit is to use Tab to Transient.