Okay... my tempo mapping is done. Now what should I do?

I apologize in advance for the following long and complicated post.
 
Some may have been watching me squirm around as I tried to figure out what to do with an old live recording session that needs to be tempo corrected.
 
To recap...
 
I've got 9 tracks. Kick, snare, overheads, bass, guitars and vocals. All recorded live in a "studio". I want to use as much of these tracks in the final product as possible and they are all mostly usable. I will be doing some overdubs but these takes will be the foundation of the project. It is multiple songs with at least two takes of each song in their entirety.
 
The problem (the current one anyway)...
 
Massively fluctuating tempo. These song are meant to change tempo at certain points but not the way they currently are. I want to get them to follow a general tempo then do finer corrections on the drums and then the rest of the parts to tighten it all up.
 
I've learned how to use audiosnap for drum correction but I need to get the other tracks (guitar, bass, vocals) to follow them and because of the WILD fluctuations it's not just a matter of dragging a couple transients around. I've also figured out how to set the audiosnap algorithms for each track independently so that's not an issue (so far).
 
What I'm trying to figure out is the best way to do this. Should I look at my tempo maps (which I've made by manually adjusting the time line to match up to the songs) and make approximations as to what the tempos should be, create a tempo map based on that, then use audiosnap to manually pull everything into time? I'd have to create anchor points across all the tracks to keep the phase relationships of the drums and keep the rest of tracks in sync.
 
If I did it this way I'd still have to make the subtle timing corrections so should I render the general time correction then adjust those rendered tracks or do the general corrections AND the finite corrections in one render? That final option would take a long time and I'm not sure if Sonar will save in the middle of such a transient muck around and with the first option I'm not sure if the double rendering will cause a ton of artifacts.
 
The other way I was thinking this might work is enabling groove clip and inserting transient markers at specific measures then just apply a new tempo map making everything just snap into place but considering how crazy these tracks are I could see that turning into a real mess. Also I would definitely have to do a double render (one for the general correction then the finer correction).
 
So there it is. I know this can be done... I'm just not sure exactly how I should proceed. I will be experimenting with this one way or the other but if anyone can point me in the right direction it would be appreciated.
 
Thanks.

That's great, Karl. I'll be poking around with all that to see what I can get going. I don't think quantize is gonna work though due to the chaotic nature of the tracks but the other advice seems solid.
 
And basically the objective is to take the entire set of tracks and get them to approximately follow an even tempo (don't want to lose the feel). What's happening now is after certain changes I'm going from say 160 BPM to 180. I'd like to find some kind of middle ground. On top of that there are moments where there are big fills or stops that lag making things go out of whack (like during the fill the tempo of that measure drops by 20 or so BPM). I just want to get things a little more even and create a grid to do finer corrections like lining up the kick/snare to downbeats and have the other instruments follow those changes. It's going to definitely be a lot of work but I think I can do it and it should be worth it.
 
Thanks, dude.

A ha! I forgot about the Timing Tool. Maybe I can do some tweaks I need done with that. We'll see.
 
aaand Alt + Click to insert transients. If that works then I should be able to do things as I originally wanted to which is insert markers across all the tracks at important measures and move everything into place all at once.
 
I should have checked my notes first. Lots of gold in there. I've just been fiddling with theory for so long I must have pushed out a lot of the knowledge I acquired over the winter. D'oh.

Thanks, gswitz. I saw that the other day but didn't click through to study it more. It is definitely cool but I don't think it's made for what I'm attempting. I'm actually trying to eliminate some of "humanness" of the tracks because the humans (myself included) screwed it right up. Also it's audio where that seems to be more for humanizing midi. I still would have a use for it at some point but not for this project. I may be overlooking something though. I guess it might have helped me create the initial reference tempo maps but those are done now. I didn't find doing those all that hard either. Just very time consuming. I think I may have solved a few of my major roadblocks. Now it's a matter of a) seeing if the features will work as intended and b) whether the render algos will make the changes without borking up the audio. It's gonna be a big day here in Beepsterland. Cheers.

Definitely requires a closer look. I'm still trying to connect the proverbial dots of this entire procedure/concept. I'm finding doing everything manually and using my ears does seem to be getting me what I want but some way to have at least some of the more repetitive and mundane steps would be nice. Cheers.

Beepster
 
I just wish I knew of a way to have the main transient being moved hooked into the exact same point as those other tracks so they move together.
 
 

You can use "Merge and lock markers" which will merge all transient markers and lock them so when you move one on a track the others all follow. The only thing is that will copy transient markers from say your kick drum to your guitar track for example and vice versa which may or may not help depending on the material. That function is especially useful on drum tracks when you want any transients in the overhead locked to the relevant racks.
 
Another method is to double click a transient in one track which will automatically select all transients in all other tracks within a narrow time window that you can set in the Audiosnap preferences--->Pool Transient Window, then just move them altogether by moving one.
 
 

Thanks, Karl. I figured most of that stuff out but it was being problematic because the autodetected markers from the drums were not lining up with the ones from the other tracks. What I'm doing now is manually inserting markers at each measure using snap across all tracks following the tempo map I created. Then I'm going to try creating a new, more in time tempo map and using those user defined markers to drag things into place to get the overall project in the ballpark. I'm concerned about phase relationships but I don't see why this shouldn't work. I'll use the merge and lock/double click/pool stuff while making more finite corrections. However there are some things that need to be separated in the drums for correct (if a kick doesn't match a cymbal crash for example I'd want to move those into place independently) so that may cause phase issues. My solution though is to gate stuff to hopefully get rid of any unnecessary bleed that would contribute to that. There will likely be some sample helper tracks for the drums as well so that should hopefully mask any issues further.
 
This is indeed a grand undertaking. Might as well jump in with both feet at this point, eh?
 
Thanks again.