Soundtoys PhaseMistress - Manual (Page 17)

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How to Get PhaseMistress to Sync
PhaseMistress uses MIDI clock to synchronize its LFO with
your music. To sync PhaseMistress to your tune…
1. Select ‘MIDI Beat Clock’ from the ProTools MIDI menu.
2. From the dialog box, make sure ‘enable MIDI Beat Clock
for…’ is checked and that PhaseMistress (and any other
SoundToys plug-in) are also checked. You will need to
repeat this step every time you insert a new
PhaseMistress plug-in.
3. Select ‘OK’ to lock to the ProTools tempo and
beat clock.
4. But WAIT! There are still a few things to note
before this will all work. New Pro Tools sessions
always set the default tempo to 120 BPM, and the
downbeat will start at the beginning of the ses-
sion. In order for tempo locking to be useful, the
downbeats and tempo of your music needs to line
up with the downbeats and tempo in your Pro
Tools session. If you’ve recorded everything to a
click track within Pro Tools, everything should be
cool. If not, you’ll need to enable the conductor
track within ProTools and create a tempo map for
your song.
Creating a Tempo Map
1. Enable the conductor track by clicking on the conductor button in the transport
window of Pro Tools. If you don’t see the conductor button on the transport win-
dow, Select Display->Transport Window Shows from the Pro Tools menu. Make sure
MIDI and "Expanded" are both checked.
2. Create a tempo map by defining bar | beat markers in your song. A simple way to
do this is to select the first measure of your song (very precisely) in the Edit win-
dow, and then use the Identify Beat command in ProTools (_ - I) to define the
starting and ending beat numbers for the selection. ProTools will then calculate