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By cliquid Sat Nov 19, 2022 9:39 am
So I saw a video a while back where a sample was opened in an Audio track and then by holding and dragging the audio on the bottom right or left you can warp the audio. You can have snap on or off. I followed what the video does but for some reason I cannot warp the audio at all. I can hit Warp and it warps, but I can’t hold my finger on it and warp it at all. I am sure I must have a setting on or off somewhere that prevents me from doing it. Any ideas guys?
By Suessiphus Sat Nov 19, 2022 2:21 pm
This way of warping audio tracks has been deleted by Akai quite some time and firmware versions ago. So you have to change the BPMs of your track in order to do so. I found that kind of video as well and liked the way to snap the recorded length to the beat boundary. Now I caught me calculating BPM targets by sample counts already but this is quite some effort and worth it to me in rare cases only.
Often enough I just want to bring pieces back on the beat so I cut the audio into pieces and use a Midi track.
All in all I miss this function as well. It could have been so easy...
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By Lampdog Sat Nov 19, 2022 2:39 pm
Warping real-time audio is a HUGE load on the cpu.
By cliquid Sat Nov 19, 2022 3:17 pm
Suessiphus wrote:This way of warping audio tracks has been deleted by Akai quite some time and firmware versions ago. So you have to change the BPMs of your track in order to do so. I found that kind of video as well and liked the way to snap the recorded length to the beat boundary. Now I caught me calculating BPM targets by sample counts already but this is quite some effort and worth it to me in rare cases only.
Often enough I just want to bring pieces back on the beat so I cut the audio into pieces and use a Midi track.
All in all I miss this function as well. It could have been so easy...

Ah thanks dude. I thought it was me being an idiot. At least I know now.