Let me know how it works out. I tested the procedure I documented for
using the ASD warp files, but I don't know if it's clear enough.
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 12:18 AM Zombiefly <zombiefly@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 65 lines thanks for that kent!
> 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:
>
>> 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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