Hi @devinodrums,
Thanks for message.
Did you also play the same thing in each recording? If one recording had a tom-heavy beat with no snare and the other one had no toms (for example) - it makes sense that Auto-Align will choose a different Performance (Key) Time track for each recording.
(In Auto-Align 2.1.0 Open Beta we renamed Key Time as Performance Time )
Did you try to manually match the Performance Time between the different takes?
Are getting the same results after doing this?
To manually select the Performance Time track, right-click any track and select ‘Set as Performance Time’.
It’s important to note, that the tracks in a group aren’t simply being aligned to the Performance Time Track.
In AA2, every track in the group is the “Reference Track” and its algorithm uses an analysis of all of the common information that they share to compare them back and forth to one another.
The Performance Time track is simply a time ‘anchor’. By default, in an effort to reproduce the performance time as closely as possible to the original, the Key Time track is the earliest of the tracks in the group. With drums, it’s usually the snare or the kick.
If you still have any issues, we’d be happy to look into your session. You can send it to us through wetransfer.com.
Thanks,
Oran