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Well the point of Ableton is to match all the clips you have to the master tempo of your project and it does that via timestretching. The timestretching sounds pretty good (especially in Live 8) most of the time, unless you're trying to get a complex audio clip from 135bpm down to 80 or something. If you post a little more about what your process is maybe I can help you figure out what the deal is.
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I'm gonna post some cool tips that people may or may not know, and maybe you guys can do the same and we'll all learn something. Resampling / recording straight from an internal track to another track is really helpful and very very easy to do.  See where it says Audio From on the audio tracks? Click that and you can choose to record from any individual track, or do resampling which records the master output, straight to a new clip. This is awesome if you have a softsynth and want to cut it up like an audio clip, just record it straight into a new clip and chop that up. There are a lot of things you can do with this, like if you're preparing for a live show you can play your hi hat track and your cowbell track and resample them into one combined audio clip in about a half-second without having to do too much work or go into another program. ~ Also, if you have an external synth or use Reason rewired into Ableton, there's a Live instrument called "External Instrument" that basically lets you use a hardware synth or a rewired Reason synth like a native Live instrument, MIDI roll and all. You still have to record to a separate audio track but this way is very simple and I didn't know about it until recently.
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Jun 5, 2009 22:44
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Couldn't you just automate the volume for the entire track or am I missing something?
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Jun 5, 2009 22:58
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Midi note C3 plays the sample at its normal pitch in simpler, I haven't used sampler but I assume it's the same.
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Jun 5, 2009 23:47
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Yeah I'm a hugeeee Ableton fanboy but really, any DAW will work for you. You can get demos of all of them so really just try them out, do tutorials, and figure out which one suits you and the way you want to make music best. Logic isn't "better for electronic music" and neither is Ableton unless you're more comfortable with one of them.
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Jun 8, 2009 22:47
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Mannex posted:today I made a bunch of live clips for every chord in the C major and C minor keys. post .als
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Jun 22, 2009 18:26
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I just ordered my APC40 but it won't be here for a few weeks :[ I'm really excited to build a big set and just fucccccck around with it.
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Jun 25, 2009 01:29
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What's the best way to get the old school analog vocoder freestyle robot voice in software? I can't really do it with Ableton's vocoder but I might be doing it wrong and/or not know some tricks that would make it sound better? Ideally it'd be with everything built into Ableton but I'm flexible.
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Jul 8, 2009 23:58
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I love you yoozer. I love yoo yoozer. But yeah, I'm looking for something as close to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfXKkNo7YZ8 as possible. I couldn't do it with the abletron vocoder, I'll give the demos of those two a shot, thanks for the recommendations. Any specific tips would be cool if you know 'em off the top of your head too.
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Jul 9, 2009 23:28
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Yeah, it's probably a problem with the automation you've recorded. It's kind of hard to diagnose without knowing a little more but double check the recorded automation tracks to make sure nothing weird is going on with them.
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Jul 17, 2009 20:25
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I've had an APC on order for months  When everything's done I'm gonna use the APC, a Trigger Finger, and the third kaoss pad to control live.
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Aug 4, 2009 19:48
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Hey man cool your jets. Do you mean export a set so your drum samples and poo poo are all collected? Just find the option for "save as self-contained set" or whatever it's called.
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Aug 6, 2009 17:24
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Here's a workaround, it's fairly bootleg but it should get you where you want to go. Create a new audio track, set the AUDIO IN to be whatever track you're having trouble with, arm it to record, and then play the glitch track while recording in a clip on the new audio track. It'll record in real time to a clip, which you can then just drag into the arrangement view since it'll be the exact same audio as as if you were playing the original track realtime. You'll have to do this every time you make changes but if you're done and just want to render it out then this should work.
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Aug 6, 2009 22:24
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Reason's synths (maelstrom and thor, anyway) are actually really tight and sound great rewired directly into Ableton. Use the External Instrument thing and you can play MIDI clips in Ableton straight through Reason, it's awesome.
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Aug 11, 2009 01:08
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Haha my APC40 order finally went through today but my production computer died a few weeks ago :[ At least I can look at it I guess. It's been super interesting watching people figure out how to use it, and when Max for Live comes out it's going to be so loving amazing. Someone will upload a monome emulator within a day and I'll never leave my room.
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Aug 19, 2009 18:03
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Yeah, in choosing a DAW you should pick the one that feels best to you, since you can make pretty much all of them sound the same. I mean, Rusko still uses Acid. e: I say "still" because I thought Acid wasn't supported anymore, but they still make it. Even so, it's a fairly uncommon choice for a DAW but if you know what you're doing you can use any of them and it'll sound good. stun runner fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Oct 14, 2009 |
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What are some cool things to do with dummy clips in a live setting, for breakdowns and build-ups and other neat effects? I'm building a DJ template for myself based on the APC40 and (thanks to the guy who recommended it in another thread) I set it up so that with the crossfader all the way to the left it's a dry signal but on the right it's a separate track with effects and dummy clips.
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Oct 21, 2009 21:01
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Check this out, there's also a link to download the set: http://www.vimeo.com/6993740
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Oct 28, 2009 16:47
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Also a public beta for Max4Live and a release date/price. It comes out November 23rd and will be $300. In other words I spend $300 to turn my APC into a monome and then I get all the max stuff on top of that. Good deal 8)
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For APC dudes, it looks like there was a monome included in the M4L beta. I'm gonna try this in about an hour, but I thought you guys might wanna know. http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=128316&hilit=monome+apc
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Nov 7, 2009 01:33
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Go into Midi Sync in preferences, you might have to click those boxes under "sync" and "remote" until it works.
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Dec 1, 2009 04:59
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Might want to upgrade the ram but that's like $80, other than that it should be fine.
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Dec 17, 2009 17:57
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Yoozer posted:If you haven't seen this yet, brace yourself. 0_0 holy poo poo
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Dec 17, 2009 21:58
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Yeah, don't, Live 8 has been unstable as gently caress on Snow Leopard. I had to reinstall them both at the same time so I didn't think about possible issues between them but it's been really horrible, like crashing multiple times a session. I think 8.1 may have fixed some of those issues, but so far 8 has crashed as many times in one week as versions 5, 6, and 7 crashed total. It hasn't happened while playing in front of other people, which is good, but it's kind of scary nonetheless.
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Dec 20, 2009 10:08
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Psychedelic posted:Weird question - drag into arrangement mode, ctrl - e to sever sections
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Jan 19, 2010 06:22
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I love robotspeak 
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Feb 14, 2010 21:56
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Could try panning it to the right and routing it to an audio track with the utility device with stereo width set to 0?
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Feb 16, 2010 03:04
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8] cool. Utility's a neat little thing, especially the stereo width function
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Feb 16, 2010 04:01
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The built in tutorials are really good, yeah. Youtube videos are cool. Also I think ableton.com has some full song files from legit producers and just digging around in those would be a good way to learn.
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Feb 20, 2010 05:10
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I wanna do that.
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Mar 1, 2010 01:26
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so sick!
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Mar 7, 2010 01:26
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I'm taking a Max4Live class in SF this month/next month, I'm pretty excited about it.
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Mar 10, 2010 02:28
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Yeah, at Robotspeak. That sounds pretty cool, I think I'll be around then 
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Mar 10, 2010 04:43
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Use Looper, it can match the set's tempo to what you recorded.
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Well without looper you're probably boned but I'm pretty sure looper does exactly what you're talking about. - Hit record on Looper (with a footswitch probably) - Play your guitar loop - Hit the + or play button (with a footswitch) - Live's master tempo is now synced up to the tempo of your song and you can trigger clips accordingly The only way Ableton works is to have everything slaved to a master tempo, so if you're looking for non-synced recording it might not be the DAW you're looking for.
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