Warping for Remixing | Ableton Live Tutorial | Dubspot's Laura Escudé

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Ableton Certified Trainer and Dubspot Instructor Laura Escudé explains how to warp a song for remixing in Ableton Live 8. Using "Help I'm Alive" by Metric, Laura takes you step by step through the process of warping the stems of a song.

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[vetten123]

how do you get songs with stems?

[DubSpot]

@vetten123 Look around for some remix competitions, they usually provide stems to work with.

[ERMAC4482]

good video. a couple questions here.

1) What are stems.? are they the same track but the instruments ripped apart on seperate tracks or are they just new sounds your adding to the remix.

2)-What would you reccomend for warping techno/House around 130BPM?-Repitch or complex PRO.

[DubSpot]

@ERMAC4482 1) Stems are each instrument of a song in a separate audio file that all begin at the same start point, the beginning of the song. They are useful because you can drop them into any program and they will always be in sync with each other.

2) Repitch will change the pitch based on how much faster or slower you make the parts so my guess is you probably want complex pro.

[ERMAC4482]

@DubSpot ok cool thanks.One other question .What if you have a song with no stems. Just the whole song as is. Can you chop it up that way & re-arrage it??

[DubSpot]

@ERMAC4482 no, it's basically impossible to separate all the instruments in a mixed song into stems. The only thing you can do is look for samples or breaks, meaning parts where the song breaks down and you can find isolated pieces to chop out.

[runescaperocx]

The words your using are not helpful to noobies just incase you didn't know... when you talk to a noob you need to be at the bare minimum to the top in tutorials

[duringtherapy]

why go thru that trouble when you can just use a bpm reading program(mix meister bpm analyzer) or traktor if you have it.

[bballa0222]

does anyone have the acapella for this???

[ElfiePrimaPutraX]

You know everytime I watch a Dubspot video, I always repeat the first bass drum. It's sub-bass is so sick!

[justUnderground16]

@Sincrol no its not lol

[antispammerbot2]

can we tap the tempo and compress it like in the video with only the acapella of the song and not the original one?

[ktuluesp]

Great Video! I have a quick question. I downloaded a track for remixing with stems from the site that was mentioned. I'm using Ableton Live 8.2.6 The problem is the stems (bass, pad, lead etc.) are not the same length as the full track as it is shown on this video. They are only short clips. Must I lengthen the clips to the same length of the full track? Is there a way to have the clips correspond to the same bars that they appear in the full track? Help!

[Sincrol]

@CVholik it doesnt have the curves and it wont snap to the grid.. you need to select the area and move the line in order to snap it... a bit time consuming with you need to make tons of automotion variation without a midi controller...

another aspect of ableton i dont like is the Piano roll, the FL's is much more complete in terms of variations you can make with it... i mean, you can even reverse the order of the midi notes...arpegiate it and so on.