Hi guys, welcome to another Sonic Academy tech tip. In this one, we are going to show you quickly how to warp a tune inside of Ableton Live 8.
I’m just going to begin by bringing in a song that hasn’t been worked before. The first thing is going to do is analyze it and let’s going to put in a new thing that they’ve put in to Ableton Live 8, it’s going to analyze and put in transient markers. And these are basically whether just a dynamic change in volume which can – to a drum beat or drum hit and just helps calculate the tempo of the tune and helps us warp our change a bit quicker as well.
So now it’s finished analyzing it, when you zoom in, when you’ll notice this beat white markers, these are the transient hits. Basically, we can’t move this at round jut like warp markers. But they’re just ones that they’ve automatically created for us. So begin with – we just zoom in, if we got highlight over the top of this transient markers can move them round if it’s – if they haven’t hit in the right place, you can hold down the Shift key and you can move them round by just clicking and dragging to their correct position or you can add new ones by holding down Alt and double clicking or you can hold down Alt and double click on one to delete one.
But what we are going to do is just scroll into the very first beat of our tune. Now if it just go ride in, you’ll notice to cut this – a familiar warp marker here at the start of tune – our transient marker just prior to that and we actually want this warp marker to start right here because it’s just start to wave the LED, the first head of the drum is just the way a bit earlier and that – so just double click on that transient marker and double click on one that you created, we can just delete that. And we’re just going to click on that warp mark and move it to the start of our tune. So we’ve got at the start – and if we right-click on that warp marker, I’m going to go to warp from here straight.
Let’s move any warp points that it might if – automatically put in for us. And if we just play this back – you’re going to play back with the metronome here to see if we can hear going out of the time.
[Demonstration]
Okay, so you can hear the – further we got towards to the end of the tune, the quicker or the more out of time it is. We just zoom in towards the end of our tune. We find a transient – we’re trying to find the drum hit that is setting – so this one here for instance should be snapped to this bar and we can simply zoom in on that transient marker. Let’s just click, move it to the right, that’ll automatically move the rest of or tune any time. If we just zoom in, have it look elsewhere, allover transient should not be locked pretty tightly, a real lesson with the metronome.
[Demonstration]
Okay, so you can hear they’re all locked in pretty tight now. Let’s calculate it, it’s bpm to be a 120 which is correct, and that should be at work. And if we just go over the left-hand side now, we can click on our Save button and that will save the warp settings for this track. So that any time you bring it in the future, it’s going to be automatically warped in time.
Okay, so I hope this helps you get back into warping your tunes and Ableton Live 8 and I’ll see you again in the next tutorial.
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