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From:
Zombiefly
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kent williams
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do id
Date:
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 06:18:24 +0000
Subject:
Re: Ableton Live Project for AFX Soundcloud files
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thanks for that kent! i've added it to the Gdrive and will check it out as i'm a big ableton user :) On 3 March 2015 at 04:07, kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 44 lines If you use Ableton Live you know that when you load a track (or any sample> If you use Ableton Live you know that when you load a track (or any sample > basically) you can 'warp' the track, meaning you detect the proper track, > mark where it starts, and as necessary, add 'warp' markers to keep the > tracks in time. > > I've done this for the 174 files currently in Chris Tranter's AFX google > doc tree. > > I've uploaded a Live project with JUST the ASD files (they tell Live what > the tempo is, where the warp markers are, etc etc). > http://www.cornwarning.com/xfer/AphexUnreleasedLiveProject.zip > > Chris, feel free to add this to that AFX Google drive folder. > > Observations after warping 174 files: > > 1. Tempos are almost all very consistent, making me think that he used > accurate clock sources & DAT recordings from very early on. There are a > very few with the telltale 'cassette stretch' tempo drift. > > 2. There are several with 'Sequencer Stop' pauses where he stops the > master clock device, allows the effects to decay, and then restarts the > sequence off beat. This blows Ableton Live's mind. I've fixed these as > best I can, basically pinning a warp marker on the last beat and then > dragging the point where the sequencer restarts to the next measure start. > > 3. Only a few had 'intergral' BPMs, i.e. 130, 140, etc. Meaning that the > tempo clock was only accidentally set to an intergral tempo. Or the > sequencer device and Ableton Live don't agree about intergral tempos. > > 4. A couple of them were unwarpable, and I gave up on those. > > 5. This set of songs was a torture test for Ableton Live's automatic > warping, and I wasn't impressed, even by the new 9.2 beta version which > supposedly improved automatic warping. It rarely found the downbeat > properly, was confused by beatless intros etc. Even though the tracks have > a very steady tempo. > > This was an interesting project to undertake, and it allowed me to > 'needle' drop in every track. There's a lot of impressive tracks in this > collection. I also warmed up to the harsher industrial tracks. Some of > those are killer. > >
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