Thank you SO much for posting this! This was EXACTLY what I needed to help me over my beatmatching problem, and you presented it WONDERFULLY, both visually and aurally. Thanks so much for producing such a crisp, helpful tutorial.
Thank you, oh god, thank you. trying to do a cover song to fit to this. I couldn't find anything, till i typed making a song fit with an acapella.... even though it's recorded to vocals. you saved me a shit ton of time, thanks.
Laura...Yours is one of the best tutorials on this subject...I'm wondering if you can give me some specific information: I have a song with a narration for an intro with background music at a slow tempo...When the pickup into the song occurs...the first beat does not fall on 'one' ! How do I warp this ? Thank you...I'm former Beach Boys band member. John Renner Beach Boys, Bobby Darin, Aretha, etc.
+John Renner HI MATE lovely too see such a famous person using ableton:) bit late youve probably found out how by now but nonetheless, you just want to go to the first beat right click in the clip view (waveform display at the bottom of the screen) and select set 1.1.1 from here:) hope this helps buddy:)
Great Video! I have a quick question. I downloaded a track for remixing with stems from the site that was mentioned. I'm using Ableton Live 8.2.6 The problem is the stems (bass, pad, lead etc.) are not the same length as the full track as it is shown on this video. They are only short clips. Must I lengthen the clips to the same length of the full track? Is there a way to have the clips correspond to the same bars that they appear in the full track? Help!
Great tutorial! Please could you help on a question about remixing though. How would I go about making stems of a track for a remix of my own choice? Thank you
How did you get it so the different tracks in the song, like the vocals and drums were separate? Can you split them in ableton or do you have to get them from somewhere else?
If we can make video requests, here's mine: Can you make a video outlining the steps to warping really old tracks that aren't, more or less, pre-quantized like this Metric track? I'd be great to learn the most efficient way to warp tracks for editing/using in sets, etc that aren't already easy for Ableton to figure out. Thanks.
I'm using the Ableton Live that came with my APC40, I only see warp modes : Beats, tones, textures, re-pitch . Is the complex pro only in full version?
I'm stuck towards the end... Underneath "Warp" there is just a blank area, I don't have the choice to change it to Master?... Any ideas?... Also, it doesn't show me the audio itself, besides when I click on one of the tracks and it comes up along the bottom, not in the main window with all the separate audio waves?...
@Sincrol try automating the tempo with audio clips though :/ . i used FL for 6 years and love FL, but just started ableton a couple days ago and its so much better workflow wise, and just various things here and there
@CVholik it doesnt have the curves and it wont snap to the grid.. you need to select the area and move the line in order to snap it... a bit time consuming with you need to make tons of automotion variation without a midi controller... another aspect of ableton i dont like is the Piano roll, the FL's is much more complete in terms of variations you can make with it... i mean, you can even reverse the order of the midi notes...arpegiate it and so on.
@CVholik me too! ive been using fl over the last 10 years or so... and just started using ableton... my main problem right now is with the Automotion... wich is very, very... very limited, compared to FL's. but, in terms of effects, ableton is king!
I suppose you mean taking a 118BPM song and making it into a 128BPM song? Basically, do first all she says, and then change track tempo :) . Don't change track tempo right from the start. Basically, Ableton first needs to know what tempo the audio is. So this entire video is about figuring out what tempo the stems are and syncing them correctly to the bars so they're in sync with the metronome. Once that's done for all stems, you can change track tempo and Ableton does the rest.
because if you're going to learn how to produce music, you might as well know how different techniques, kinda lazy otherwise, you might learn something by actually applying this knowledge as well.
The words your using are not helpful to noobies just incase you didn't know... when you talk to a noob you need to be at the bare minimum to the top in tutorials
