Ableton Live Tutorial: Intro to Warping + Slicing Audio - Thavius Beck

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What exactly is Warping and Slicing?
One of the things that makes Ableton Live such a unique and powerful piece of software is a fundamental feature which completely changes how you are able to interact with your audio. This feature is called Warping. Warping allows you to manipulate the tempo and pitch of your audio independently of one another. This means that you can change the pitch of a song to fit the pitch of another without changing the tempos, or you can slow down or speed up a piece of audio without altering the pitch. As someone who came from using hardware samplers like the Akai S-900, Roland W-30, and even the MPC 1000, you can imagine just how mind-blowing a discovery this was for me at the time... when you learn how to effectively warp audio and apply it to your songs, every sample becomes a new piece of elastic to be stretched to your liking.

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Music

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• ableton live
• video tutorial
• warping and slicing
• thavius beck
• dubspot
• electronic music production
• timestretch
• how to
• pitch
• tempo
• slow down audio
• how to warp audio
• elastic audio
• warp markers
• transient markers
• Slice to New Midi Track
• beatmatching
• mash-ups
• WAR
• Cisco Kid
• waveforms

[thefebruaryman]

Great tutorial just missing one VERY IMPORTANT THING! When slicing to a simpler in this method you loose all those lovely warped timings that were set. To over come this just take the warped sample into the arrangement mode and consilidate it then take it back and slice it in any method you like.

[baconben]

@4generalupload I don't sell my music commercially, it's available under a creative commons license. Dubspot are educators, and this small clip of Thavius' friend's song represents 'fair use' even if they make money out of their courses. Copyright is an old fashioned institutional way of protecting your rights, it really only benefits big publishers and those with the finances to enforce it by stifling creativity.

[salladspojk]

Really enjoyed this tutorial :D thanks man!

[screendrem]

@4generalupload "Comment removed" I want to read it. It must have been good because your rebuttal was fantastic. I haven't copy written anything cause I don't see why you need to pay 80 bux for the out-dated service like that. What do you think of song writing affiliations like ASCAP or BMI?

[foshiz95]

@djamorpheus and obama :D

[foshiz95]

obama?! :D

[MrProRelief]

Such an informative and interesting tutorial. Thank you

[4generalupload]

@baconben Your argument would be reasonable if the copyright owner allowed you to use it commercially.

[baconben]

@4generalupload That's how music progresses between revolutions; copy, modify, create, evolve. Taking inspiration from anywhere and transposing it in a new setting is at the core of creative electronic music making. That doesn't mean that you can just play keyboard over someone's track and call it your own... but appropriation is fundamental to modern culture.

[D1SASTERarea]

excellent tutorial...must try slicing to a sampler next time i make a beat

[MrJSiQ]

@tsevanof I can go to "slice to warp marker but I dont have the option to select "slice to simpler sampler" in the preset menu...what version of ableton live are you using?