Ableton/Manual/09
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Audio Clips, Tempo, and Warping
- Ableton/Manual/09/02 9.2 Time-Warping Samples
- Ableton/Transients and Ableton/Pseudo Warp Marker Transients and Pseudo Warp Markers
When you first load a sample into Live, Live automatically analyzes the audio and finds its transients. These are the points in the audio where notes or events begin, and are usually good places to put Warp Markers. Transients appear as small markers at the top of the Sample Editor after zooming in.
As you mouse over transients, temporary “pseudo“ Warp Markers appear. These have the same shape as regular Warp Markers, but they’re gray.
Double-clicking or dragging a pseudo Warp Marker creates an actual Warp Marker or, if there are no Warp Markers later in the clip, changes the tempo for the clip segment
- Ableton/Manual/09/02/02 9.2.2 Warp Markers
Think of a sample as a rubber-band that you want to pin to a (musical time) ruler. In Live, the pins are called Warp Markers. An Ableton/Warp/Marker locks a specific point in the sample to a specific place in the measure. You can use any number of Warp Markers to create an arbitrary mapping of the piece’s inherent rhythm to a musical meter.
They can then be dragged or moved with the arrow keys to different points in time. Warp Markers can also be deleted by double-clicking them, or by pressing the computer keyboard’s [Backspace] or [Delete] key after selecting them.
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- Live 12 manual: Ableton/Live/UG/09 Audio Clips Tempo and Warping