Ah ha!  I need to disable Disable!  Then promote works.  Jeesh, you'd think Promote would do that.  OK, back to trying stuff...
 
CAF

OK, I think I've got it.  Man, fussy stuff.  I worked with AudioSnap for other reasons a while back.  Not quite as obvious as V-Vocal...
 
Thanks for all your help folks.
 
CAF

It's true there's no obvious indication that a marker is promoted; it just always stays in its enable/disabled state. If you change the enabled/disabled state of a marker directly so that its not consistent with the current Threshold and Resolution settings, it will automatically be Promoted to maintain that "contrairian"state.

OK, I've had more success not trying to use AudiooSnap to do tempo extraction and just do the Project --> Set Beat/Measure at Now
 
Looking at the tempo map showed me how tangled things got with AudioSnap and I'm able to build a much simpler map manually.  Since it's a drum machine, it's easy.
 
Thanks again.
 
CAF

That's generally been my experience. Even for a project that is more rubato, working manually is ultimately just as fast and yields more predictable and precise results with only the tempo changes that are really needed. Audiosnap's Set Project function developed an issue a few versions ago where the tempo changes are not placed exactly on the measures and beats but slightly before or after, depending on whether the tempo is increasing or decreasing. Until that's fixed, I'll stick with the manual method.
 

A little OT and don't mean to hijack the thread but I still want the ability to save and load tempo maps independent of the project.
 
Jim
 
 

You can save a tempo map as a MIDI file and copy-paste the map form that file into to any project. Maybe a few extra clicks compared to having a direct export-import tempo map function, but not a big burden in the grand scheme of how long it takes to set up and complete a project.

great stuff here

When you upgrade to X3 I believe Melodyne may be quite useful for this (at this very moment head buried in Groove 3 tutorial, so I'm just saying).