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Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 12:15 pm
by Depone
contakt321 wrote:
vulvavibration wrote:
vulvavibration wrote:i have a little wav sample i'm using. now when i pitch it up a little and loop it, it cracks always on some point. i tryed warping differently and it stills kinda distorts at some point.

help... :?
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Please describe your problem more clearly and we will try to sort you out. What are you trying to do? Whats the sample of? Is it an audio loop as a clip?
Check your zero crossing points of the sample/loop. If the waveform starts or ends not on 0, your gonna get crackles and pops.
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Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread

Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:13 pm
by gh02
Could do with a few pointers on pitch bend, ...... nm sorted

Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 1:36 pm
by DZA
Is there anyway to randomize midi notes? :oops:

Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 1:39 pm
by continuumdnb
DZA wrote:Is there anyway to randomize midi notes? :oops:
Draw mode, close your eyes, click away.

Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 1:40 pm
by Echoi
i havent read any of this thread, so not sure if this has been answered in here

but im having trouble recording into ableton, say i have a film in windows media player, and wanted to record a sample, how would i do it correctly?

i just cant seem to get an input signal

Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 1:41 pm
by DZA
continuumdnb wrote:
DZA wrote:Is there anyway to randomize midi notes? :oops:
Draw mode, close your eyes, click away.
Figured it out now :oops:

Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 3:36 pm
by gnome
DZA wrote:
continuumdnb wrote:
DZA wrote:Is there anyway to randomize midi notes? :oops:
Draw mode, close your eyes, click away.
Figured it out now :oops:
I guess your using Live 8 then?

Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:44 pm
by jdw
is there a way to map a vsts velocity to a midi control?

Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 6:42 pm
by DZA
gnome wrote:
DZA wrote:
continuumdnb wrote:
DZA wrote:Is there anyway to randomize midi notes? :oops:
Draw mode, close your eyes, click away.
Figured it out now :oops:
I guess your using Live 8 then?
Yup

Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 7:58 pm
by timg
Hi, i am on ableton 6, just noticed that input-output circle on the right is grayed out and i no longer seem to be able to route tracks etc....

Any ideas?

Thanks, T.

Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:17 pm
by timmyyabas
hi, i've just upgraded to live 8. in live 7 and before when setting beat markers and stuff, i would set the 1st one where i wanted it and then move bar 16 or wotever to where it needs to be.

now in live 8 i can get the starting point set, then do that warp from here buisness, where ableton will decide the bpm of the track, which is usually close, but not bang on, so i wanna make a wee adjustment. however, i can't coz i can't just select bar 16 or wotever and drag it. i'm guessing it's something to do with creating a new beat marker and doing some shit, but i dunno.

any help will be much appreciated.

Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:20 pm
by timg
timmyyabas wrote:hi, i've just upgraded to live 8. in live 7 and before when setting beat markers and stuff, i would set the 1st one where i wanted it and then move bar 16 or wotever to where it needs to be.

now in live 8 i can get the starting point set, then do that warp from here buisness, where ableton will decide the bpm of the track, which is usually close, but not bang on, so i wanna make a wee adjustment. however, i can't coz i can't just select bar 16 or wotever and drag it. i'm guessing it's something to do with creating a new beat marker and doing some shit, but i dunno.

any help will be much appreciated.
hi, they changed the way warping works in live 8...

try watching some of the tutorials on youtube, eg : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-mU26qWq7k

T

Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:31 pm
by timmyyabas
assholes!

this better be easier, or better or something!

cheers for teh linkage.

Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:52 pm
by gnome
timmyyabas wrote:assholes!

this better be easier, or better or something!

cheers for teh linkage.
Much better from what I hear

Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:09 pm
by contakt321
gnome wrote:
timmyyabas wrote:assholes!

this better be easier, or better or something!

cheers for teh linkage.
Much better from what I hear
WAY more intuitive, WAY faster, WAY better, and WAY easier

Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 10:02 pm
by timmyyabas
cool, i guess i'll just have to get a wee bit of practise in.

i'm still setting my first beat marker at the start of the 1st beat/bar, if i don't want to use any other beat markers and just have a constant bpm throughout the tune/sample, is the only way to adjust this by shifting the bpm of the sample up and down from the bpm counter in the sample window thingy?

i suppose i could get used to that now i know how to do it. i still liked the dragging of bars around tho, twas easy.

anyhow, cheers for the help ppl. there's no doubt more questions to come as i start using more and more parts of live. i've only been using it for knocking up my own mixes in arrangement view. there will hopefully be some bassline related questions in the future.

Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 10:15 pm
by DZA
contakt321 wrote:
gnome wrote:
timmyyabas wrote:assholes!

this better be easier, or better or something!

cheers for teh linkage.
Much better from what I hear
WAY more intuitive, WAY faster, WAY better, and WAY easier
I must a fucking idiot then takes me fucking time to warp something :|

Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:32 pm
by contakt321
DZA wrote: I must a fucking idiot then takes me fucking time to warp something :|
For sure :)

Jokes.

Anyway, for me, the fastest way to warp in 8.

1. Create a Warp Marker at the beginning of the Track (TIP: Hold shift and slides the audio around in small increments to get it perfect)
2. Determine where the beginning of the Third Bar is, place a Warp marker here.

Now you should see roughly the BPM of what you are Warping. (In the Clip BPM setting)

3. Change the master tempo (upper left corner) to whatever the Clip Tempo is (I generally round to the nearest whole number - example: 139.9, I make that 140)
4. Right Click or Command Click on the 1st Warp Marker (at Bar 1). Select "Set 1.1 Here"
5. Right Click or Command Click on the 1st Warp Marker (at Bar 1). Select "Warp X BPM from here"

Now your Tune should generally be good, however, if you are going to DJ or need things to be super tight:

6. Go to the beginning of Bar 5, place a warp marker, get it perfect
7. Now, do the Same at Bar 9, Bar 17, Bar 32, Bar 64, and every 32 Bars from here on, as well as the any bar after a break/breakdown

You are rock solid

Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:49 pm
by lushman
Thought I'd share a really useful rack instrument I got (can't remember where from now). It's basically 8 Impulse drum machines combined together, which allows for really easy layering of samples, independent eq's, effects chains etc. Here's the link http://www.yousendit.com/download/RmNCT ... SHhMWEE9PQ.

Have fun :)

Re: The Ableton Q&A Thread

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:20 am
by wayoftheworld
shits bad lush....thanks for that. if anyone else is interested in this sort of thing, there's a whole thread of user-submitted racks in the ableton forum. lots and lots of useful stuff