Most of my favorite groove-tweaking is done manually, but there are a number of automated techniques that are worth knowing as well. It’s easy to overlook the fact that as of Live 8, audio can be quantized just like MIDI. The quantize commands are under the Edit menu. If they are grayed out, click on […]
LOOPING WITHOUT WARPING. SORTA.
Every now and then, it comes up that you want to loop a sound without warping it. For example, you might need to loop a bunch of field recordings for an ambient performance or installation. What you want is for all of the recordings play back at their original speed regardless of their length, or […]
LOOPING WITHOUT WARPING. SORTA. pt 2.
Another sorta solution to this problem involves using a Follow Action. To do this, you’ll bring in the audio the same way you did in the last tip. After you turn on the Warp switch, zoom in on the right edge of the waveform display. In this case, we see that at 120bpm (the arbitrary […]
