By scoobylol
Sat Oct 29, 2011 10:37 am
Ableton usually detects the peaks and gives you a suggestion of where to put the warp markers.
BUT you can put them wherever you want.
1. Double click on your clip/sound/chunk of acapella, and it should appear at the bottom. On the left you'll have the Clip and Sample boxes. You can also access the Envelopes box there too.
2. Just above your clip but not on the main screen you should see a timeline bar that reads
1 1.2 1.3 1.4 2 etc...
If you put your mouse cursor over that you will see you can now use that area to zoom, and move around your clip. So go ahead and do that.
3. Once you've decided where you want to place your warp marker zoom right in, you might notice that Ableton has given a little suggestive line where it has found a peak, and if you run the mouse over those areas it will highlight them. But you can put your own marker in wherever you want by double clicking. Or you can right click and go to Insert Warp Marker, but I find that less accurate.
4. With something like an acapella I'd be tempted to turn the Fixed Grid off for fine tuning. So to do this again right click and at the bottom you will see your options for the grid. If you click Off you will see that you can now move the markers around freely but the grid is still visually present to help you keep things in time. So now get that 'pella going and experiment.
5. My last point is just to reiterate, it's much easier to chop the 'pella into bits and work on it gradually. You will notice that if you don't have enough Warp Markers in a piece of audio stretching it doesn't always make it fit structurally. It will be the same tempo, but that's not all you want.
6. Another important thing worth mentioning are the types of warping that are available, I won't go into each one in too much depth, because it's better for you to experiment with them. But on the left hand side of your audio at the bottom you will see the Clip box. At the bottom of that is a symbol that looks like a little sine wave. If you click that the Sample box should pop up. In this box you can tune your sample using Transpose and Detune. On the right you will see a little drop down box and it will give you the following options:
Beats
Tones
Texture
Re-pitch
Complex
Complex Pro
These determine how things are warped. For yours I'd probably use Complex or Complex Pro, but have an experiment and you will learn what each one does. Beats can be quite interesting, it will give vocal samples an almost gated sound which can be fun to experiment with if you like to chop up vocals in a Todd Edwards style haha.
Hope this has been of some help Ed.
BUT you can put them wherever you want.
1. Double click on your clip/sound/chunk of acapella, and it should appear at the bottom. On the left you'll have the Clip and Sample boxes. You can also access the Envelopes box there too.
2. Just above your clip but not on the main screen you should see a timeline bar that reads
1 1.2 1.3 1.4 2 etc...
If you put your mouse cursor over that you will see you can now use that area to zoom, and move around your clip. So go ahead and do that.
3. Once you've decided where you want to place your warp marker zoom right in, you might notice that Ableton has given a little suggestive line where it has found a peak, and if you run the mouse over those areas it will highlight them. But you can put your own marker in wherever you want by double clicking. Or you can right click and go to Insert Warp Marker, but I find that less accurate.
4. With something like an acapella I'd be tempted to turn the Fixed Grid off for fine tuning. So to do this again right click and at the bottom you will see your options for the grid. If you click Off you will see that you can now move the markers around freely but the grid is still visually present to help you keep things in time. So now get that 'pella going and experiment.
5. My last point is just to reiterate, it's much easier to chop the 'pella into bits and work on it gradually. You will notice that if you don't have enough Warp Markers in a piece of audio stretching it doesn't always make it fit structurally. It will be the same tempo, but that's not all you want.
6. Another important thing worth mentioning are the types of warping that are available, I won't go into each one in too much depth, because it's better for you to experiment with them. But on the left hand side of your audio at the bottom you will see the Clip box. At the bottom of that is a symbol that looks like a little sine wave. If you click that the Sample box should pop up. In this box you can tune your sample using Transpose and Detune. On the right you will see a little drop down box and it will give you the following options:
Beats
Tones
Texture
Re-pitch
Complex
Complex Pro
These determine how things are warped. For yours I'd probably use Complex or Complex Pro, but have an experiment and you will learn what each one does. Beats can be quite interesting, it will give vocal samples an almost gated sound which can be fun to experiment with if you like to chop up vocals in a Todd Edwards style haha.
Hope this has been of some help Ed.
