Ableton Tutorial: Making a Blend/Mash-Up:: Part 2 of 2

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We will be making a blend by syncing an acapella and mixing it with a instrumental.

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[JoshuaCasper22]

I didn't mention pitch because I don't believe I changed the tempo of the samples, and they were a match according to mixed in key, so i didn't need to re-pitch.. it is a little too difficult to explain here about how to re-pitch a sample. but go to the envelopes section for the clip, click on pitch and adjust accordingly.. also instead of using "beats" for warping use "complex pro"

[diskokittenopel]

Is there any way you could do a video on the last part of your video that you had pre-created the warped acapella i.e. 4.03 mins in ?

I find this the trickiest part of mashups and appreciate any tips.

[JoshuaCasper22]

@diskokittenopel if you are talking about warping an acapella, i do that in part one of this tutorial, this is part two....

[maxmilder]

can you explain why you put the original and the acapella into the project? is it just to be able to control the BPM?

[JoshuaCasper22]

@maxmilder i sync the original with the acapella because i find that it is bar far the quickest and most accurate way to warp an acapella!!

[ivanhec]

when i save them the only way i can open them is using ableton and i want to open iot as an mp3 file how can i do that ?

[JoshuaCasper22]

@ivanhec you need to export as a .aac or .wav and then convert to .mp3... check out some videos about exporting...

[RaheemdaplayaO4]

P.S You sound like Owen Wilson (Marley & Me dude)

[RaheemdaplayaO4]

@JoshuaCasper22 Luckily I came back to this video, you didn't direct reply me! :L But yeah I sussed it after my friend who uses Ableton taught me. I wish I had Mixed in Key myself, but it's expensive

[RaheemdaplayaO4]

You didn't mention pitch once :S that's like crucial for a mashup! Where can you change the pitch of the acapella to harmonize it with the instrumental?

[joshmosh88]

very helpful thank you.

[lingdjzero]

great tut thx!

[funkvibe1]

Ive been tryn this at home wit my own music but for sum reason when i raise the bpm on segment bpm the accapllla gets slows down ( i dont get it is it a setting i have on???) the instrumental is perfect i get it ryte away but having problems wit the matchin the accpella.( i have my globel bpm set at 100bpm and my instrumental set at(100bpm)..even turned on the metronome and that matches the instr. Perfect but not the accapella even when i change the seg bpm for the pella to 100 any ideas...thank

[gezeebeezee]

i just tried to close the full screen by pressing the X on his screen hahahaha

[csselement]

I agree. Ironically, Live has a few tools to reduce the 'precision' factor (grooves, for example) to make things sound more 'human' and in essence, imperfect.