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Splitting tracks in ableton
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| chesco |
I know there are a few ableton users on here.
I'm starting to use it again after almost giving up on it a while back, i've kind of learnt how to warp my tracks but what i'd like to know how to split my tracks up into different loops and stuff so i can get a little more creative. Also how would i store the loops seperately.
Forgive me if this is a stupid question but i'm a total beginner at this. |
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| Inconspicuous |
select the clip you want to mess around with
copy
paste in another slot
change the start measure, and the length #s in the new one (that you pasted...instead of 1,1,1 and being however many bars long, change to, say, 128,1,1 and change the length to 8,0,0 for an 8-bar loop starting on the 128th bar from where you had set it to start.)
repeat as many times as you want, with as many different clips, etc. |
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| Zild |
| Personally I leave the songs as one track and just select the parts I want to loop and loop them on the fly. |
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| Alex |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zild
Personally I leave the songs as one track and just select the parts I want to loop and loop them on the fly. |
Thats normally what I do, but if you dont like that approach...
You can always edit them externally with Soundforge, edit them with Ableton itself like Inconspicuous said, OR there's another way to do it within ableton if you're really looking for a specific isolated sound to sample with, and that of course is Ableton's envelope function which allows you to pretty much isolate any sound you want and adjust its volume according to your envelope "slope" as some call it.
But for just looping certain parts, just make well placed 4/8/16 bar loops and make sure they arent ending/starting on a fading in fading out sound that will make the loop blatently noticeable during a mix. |
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| Zild |
| quote: | Originally posted by Alex
there's another way to do it within ableton if you're really looking for a specific isolated sound to sample with, and that of course is Ableton's envelope function which allows you to pretty much isolate any sound you want and adjust its volume according to your envelope "slope" as some call it.
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I'm going to try that out. Thanks |
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