I have finished my first set in Ableton, but I can't figure out what the best way to get it into mp3 is. Help?

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Go to arrangement view. Highlight the whole set. Then go to file then render as. Then select mp3

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Ableton doesn't render MP3 simple as that...


you have to render a wav file...then use your favourite editor to encode to MP3

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See, I have Ableton 5, and I can only render as an aiff or wav. Right now Im doing a render to aiff, but I don't know what settings are optimal for the rendering. I have the bit depth at 24 and the sample rate at 88200. I know I can just drag it into itunes afterwards to make it MP3, but are my settings to aiff good? And should I use another converter to make the aiff an MP3?

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I think 24-bit (or even 16) is okay, but the sample rate doesn't need to be that high. Keep in mind CD quality has a sample rate of 44.1kHz, don't recall the sample size (probably 16 or 24).

Look for mp3 converters; I know cdex can do it, but I do some post-processing and the program I use handles mp3 encoding. Look for things based on the Free (GPL'd) LAME library (mp3 encoder), it will satisfy your needs.

Render to 16 bit 44100 Hz and then use winLAME (http://winlame.sourceforge.net/) to encode to mp3.

Andy

Using ableton to record your set is not recommended. it will clog up ableton and the performance wont be at it's highest. You have to understand that ableton is a sequencing program, and the recording function is there to build songs and/or elements.

Another downside of recording in ableton is that you have to export afterwards. this isn't only time-consuming, but the uncompressesed WAV file is useless (again, for a finished master, a uncomp'd WAV is preferred, but not for a live-set... be realistic.)

I recommend you get a 3rd Party software to do the recording for you. One option is HDogg [http://www.fridgesoft.de/downloads.php?dl=hdogg]. If you want a more expensive but reliable option, you can try WaveLab [http://www.steinberg.net/128_1.html]

Basically, these programs record whatever is playing on your line-in, in real time. Once you're done, just press stop. Save on long, time-consuming step.

Hope this helps!

Thanks for the responses, but I just imported the rendered aif file into audacity and then using LAME exported it into 256kbps mp3 and that seemed to turn out great. Look for the mix, Lost Souls, in the DJ forum if you're looking for a chill-out mix.

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For next time I would suggest routing all the audio through a dummy channel and recording it externally through that channel, perhaps with your soundcard (if you have one) or via another program.

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I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this. I have a program, Audio Hijack, and while I realize its not the best of its kind, are you saying to use a program of that kind to record the live playback of whatever Ive done in Ableton and then convert that (probably in WAV format) to MP3? And no, I don't have a sound card.

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Hmm I think it's still possible, I'll have to go nerd it up a bit more though and get back to you, if the thread disappears by then I'll PM you.

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it's free and it's l33t.

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

Just select everything you recorded in Live, render it as a wav, then convert the wav to mp3 using the program above. Other than that... there's nothing that you can do.