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Ableton Live: Warping Revisited

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Published in SOS July 2009

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Warping has changed entirely in Live 8. We show you how to get the most out of the new system.
Simon Sherbourne
Ableton always manage to pack lots of exciting new stuff into their upgrades (as you can read in the Live 8 review from the last issue of SOS), so we’ve got a wealth of fresh new features and techniques to explore over the coming months. In this month’s column, we’re going to focus on the new warping system. Time warping is at the very heart of Live, and although most other DAWs can do it now, for many, ‘Live’ and ‘audio warping’ are synonymous. So it’s quite a bold move for Ableton to completely reverse the paradigm used for warping audio.
Back In The Day
In our Warping 101 article (SOS December 2006), we explained the different ways in which Live manipulated imported audio. Short audio files are assumed to be loops, so Live guesses their lengths in bars, then stretches them to match the current session’s tempo. Longer files are assumed to be whole songs or recordings, and are analysed for transients so that Live can ‘pin’ them to the current tempo map if required. Lastly, the internal timing of audio clips can be manipulated manually by creating and moving Warp Markers. It’s this last topic that needs revisiting now, to bring us up to date.
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