Hi,
EDIT....
http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.p...antizing+tempo
http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=87469
The first link is with starting with a midi track, the second starts with audio and has my action macro at the end.
Sorry I can only paste at the beginning of post.
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If the drums are the only track, then I would,
Tempo map the song...
Then, with time base set back to beats remove most of the tempo changes.
That will sound much better there. At that point you can quantize.
I saw you said noob, but once you tempo map successfully once it becomes easy.
You can't quantize now because you said the drums don't match the click at times.
You have to make the click match the midi first...which will probably have tempo drift in the playing. Once the click is matched, you remove the tempo drift and the midi will follow.
If there other are other tracks that you want to keep, then its another ball game.
I'll look for a tutorial I did ages ago.
Basicly what I do is record a midi note on the one of every bar in time w the drums, then go to the drum track and extract the "groove"..timing...with sws fingers groove tool. Then apply that groove to my every on the one midi.
You now can use the create time SIG from time selection. Sounds harder than it is. Just get you time bases right.....use the sws action set items to ignore project tempo when you don't want midi to move when you adjust grid.
Then put it back to beats when you've removed the unwanted tempo changes.
There is also breeders ..tempo mapping with sws.... in the wiki. Since I already had my method down before the sws method came out I never tried it.
And remember to work on a copy of the song. And save w new name at every successful step.
Good luck