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How to isolate specific sound from a sample in Ableton
I'm relatively new to Ableton and am learning about sampling right now. What I'd like to be able to do is take an instrumental and isolate specific sounds from it.
Is this possible?
I imagine ...
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How to set “Follow Action” in thirtytwos? (Ableton Live)
When trying to set "follow action" to next loop, there isn't an input field for thirtytwos.
(Time signature is 4/4, grid is 1/32)
Thanks!
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How to “Insert silence” - in session view (Ableton Live)?
How can one "Insert silence" in session view - to the loop itself?
(Guess there must be an easier way than re-recording).
Thanks
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How to manually change BPM of part of clip in Ableton
How do you take from point A to point B inside a warped clip, and change it's BPM from 120 to 140?
Reason is I need to sync a video track with a audio track, video has music with not a constant BPM. ...
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should I unfreeze tracks in ableton before exporting a song?
Should I unfreeze tracks in ableton before exporting a song? Just wondering if this will make any difference in the way it sounds. In the past I noticed when I exported songs with tracks frozen they ...
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why is higher sample rate changing the sound for the worse? I think its changing the pitch
I'm working on a current song which I posted an example of a while back when asking about why low frequency sawtooth oscillators change the sound. Since then I changed the base of the synth from NI ...
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how to lower CPU usage in Ableton Live 8 in Mac OSX 10.6.8
While running Ableton Live 8 after a project gets to a certain size, the audio starts to get a bit choppy and distorted. My levels are fine and is not the cause of the lag and chop.
I have samples ...
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Solo a track with a Gate sidechained to a grouped track?
Assuming I have two tracks, Track A and Track B, where Track A is a group of tracks, how do I solo Track B if it has a Gate effect with a sidechain that targets Track A? An example of this situation ...
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How to make feedback in Ableton Live?
I'm making a short film where one of the actors accidentally turns the fader on the mixing board all the way up thus making an immense feedback. We don't want to do this in reality because of the ...
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Mapping Mod and Pitch bend controls to a knob in Ableton?
I'm in between full sized MIDI keyboards at the moment and picked up an Akai MPK Mini to use for the time being and as a travel controller. I love it but it's missing the mod and pitch wheels that ...
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Ableton Live - am I misunderstanding clips in the Arrangement view?
When I first saw a video of someone looping midi clips in Ableton Live's Session view and then placing them down into the Arrangement view, I figured that Live worked a lot like a 'tracker' (early ...
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Exporting Logic to Ableton?
I write/compose all of my music in Apple Logic and I would like to use Ableton Live to sequence different scenes of audio from it.
What is the best way to export?
I am familiar with bouncing stems ...
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Ableton Live - Editing / Moving multiple envelope points at the same time as your note data?
When you view CC or other data (such as volume, pan etc) in the Envelope section of your clip window, you can easily select a single data point by clicking on it; you can select multiple points by ...
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Ableton Live - viewing / editing CC sostenuto data
Hey guys, hope someone knows the answer here. Unable to locate anything in the docs about it. If I record a piano track complete with sustain pedal, and the. Later in the MIDI editor I move the notes ...
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How can I change the master BPM in my song without stretching the recorded wav files?
I am using Ableton live 8. I just recorded three tracks of live audio (vocals and guitar) and did not pay attention to the BPM of the song. Now I would like to tap the correct BPM without stretching ...
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Ableton Live / Osculator / TouchOSC: Send all values to remote control device
I'm using TouchOSC on an iPad to remote control many values in an Ableton Live Project. To translate between OSC (TouchOSC) and MIDI (Ableton Live) I'm using OSCulator.
Now when I startup TouchOSC on ...
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Adjusting MIDI latency in Ableton Live
When I record MIDI tracks in Ableton Live, is there any way to adjust it so the MIDI notes I record are automatically shifted to their correct positions, correcting for the lag time on my MIDI ...
