robmasterton .
Registered: Jul 2004 Posts: 1245 - Threads: 12 Location: melbourne
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i thought that "warp" was the name that ableton gave to the beatgrid thing - i might be wrong tho! i have tried using ableton for fucking about with loops, which it has done fine with (apart from when my loops aren't clean enough) cept when i have put in long loops of lead stuff from my own productions, which it has had trouble with... when i have tried to use it for djing too by loading whole tracks in, it also seems to have problems... the fastest way i know to get the tracks marked up correctly is to set the bpm in ableton to that of the track and adjust the first marker in the beatgrid/warp to the first beat, and that should get the whole thing *roughly* in time - tho you still have to go thru it all very carefully to make sure it stays in time... there may well be a quicker way, i am not really an expert by any means.
you can stretch all the beat markers/warp in ableton to match the beats in the tune manually, it just takes ages and i am a lazy person which is why i'd love it to be able to do it automatically... you can also do some really cool effects with this eg timestretching minute parts of your loops (just take one of your loops and take the warp markers or whatever they should be called way off the beats to hear what i mean).
this stuff is a bit tricky to explain on a messageboard tho as we seem to be calling the same things different names
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