Wouldn't it be great if..........

davebell · Post by **davebell** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:45 am

you could right click on a midi clip in Live and it would convert it to an audio clip?

nova.k · Post by **nova.k** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:14 am

yep... that'd sure be nice. no having to create and delete tracks to create samples..... maybe we should request it for live 8?

pdomino · Post by **pdomino** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:19 am

Sometimes long ....
Easy enough to do though if your audio is set to record back into soundcard.
Play midi loop with an audio channel recording.

Disco Nutter · Post by **Disco Nutter** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 12:10 pm

You can. It's called Flatten Track.

jobbanaught · Post by **jobbanaught** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 12:23 pm

This is possible in Live more or less...

Just freeze a MIDI track and then right click it and choose the option "convert to audio" or something like that. This way you dont have to record it. Just chop up the resulting audio track and use the samples.

triss · Post by **triss** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 12:41 pm

you sort of can, freeze the track, duplicate the frozen midi clip and drag the dupliacte on to an audio track. it then does the conversion for you. marvelousness.

only found this out the other day and it's aving me more time than an a lot of other time saving things.

davebell · Post by **davebell** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 6:01 pm

I was hoping someone would tell me that this is great can't wait to get home an try it.

thanks this will save me time

zion cluster · Post by **zion cluster** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 6:41 pm

This the best thing in Live, and the main reason its my DAW of choice. Another great thing is when you have the flattened audio you can just drag it to an empty midi track to create a sampler with your audio in it. Great for resampling synths etc

jobbanaught · Post by **jobbanaught** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:13 am

triss wrote:you sort of can, freeze the track, duplicate the frozen midi clip and drag the dupliacte on to an audio track. it then does the conversion for you. marvelousness.

Damn, been using Live for two yeares now and did only know about the track freeze and & convert trick. Could have saved my some hours of duplicating tracks instead of duplicating clips. Nice one...

zion cluster wrote:Another great thing is when you have the flattened audio you can just drag it to an empty midi track to create a sampler with your audio in it. Great for resampling synths etc

Gonna try this too...

I think that kind of features is what really sets Live apart: you have the feeling the developers tried to imagine your workflow and then make it is easy as possible to accomplish. Did not try Logic so far, but also I never found anything lacking in Live. Despite the fuckI#ng 127 parameter automation limit

teqh · Post by **teqh** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:32 am

always read the small print

jobbanaught · Post by **jobbanaught** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:07 pm

whineo · Post by **whineo** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 2:06 pm

why not just route it to an audio track and record !

davebell · Post by **davebell** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 2:25 pm

Whineo wrote:why not just route it to an audio track and record !

I used to do that, but why would you do such a thing when all you need to do is right click > frezze then drag?

Disco Nutter · Post by **Disco Nutter** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 3:26 pm

Because if you have a large track and only need to bounce one bar freezing is just consuming too much time

whineo · Post by **whineo** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 6:41 pm

davebell wrote:
Whineo wrote:why not just route it to an audio track and record !
I used to do that, but why would you do such a thing when all you need to do is right click > frezze then drag?

because you can modify parameters etc in real time, giving you much more audio to work with and a lot more variations of the audio than if you just freeze.

depends what the source of the midi is tho

mandark · Post by **mandark** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 8:19 pm

That's so kick-ass, will definitely try this today.

davebell · Post by **davebell** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 10:58 pm

well I usuallky have loads of bars to bounce as clips, I make lots of 1 bar - 4bar long midiclips with automation, now I can bounce them all to audio real quick, and put them in the arrange mode that way.

I see what your saiying though if it is just 1 bar.

abZ · Post by **abZ** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:12 am

I thought the first couple posts where facetious LOL yeah you can do eet mang. Ableton once again FTMFW. Seriously bad ass software.

FSTZ1 · Post by **FSTZ1** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 4:51 am

pdomino wrote:Sometimes long ....
Easy enough to do though if your audio is set to record back into soundcard.
Play midi loop with an audio channel recording.

thats what I do

abZ · Post by **abZ** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 6:34 am

FSTZ wrote:
pdomino wrote:Sometimes long ....
Easy enough to do though if your audio is set to record back into soundcard.
Play midi loop with an audio channel recording.
thats what I do

You can't just export a wave of one track in Cubendo?

Even in Reason you can do that.

Or are you talking about recording hardware?

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