Is Ableton Warping supposed to be this tedious???

[wrong chris]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5513mXmQbw4

[djsakebomb]

Yepp, warping is a huge pain in the ass. Nothing you can do about it.

[JesC]

[ame="http://vimeo.com/8008872"]Warping and Splitting tracks for DJing in Ableton on Vimeo[/ame]

this video help me to warp tracks

[BentoSan]

repeating what everyone else is saying...

Electronic dance tracks with a solid tempo are suuuper easy to warp, however when you have tracks with a constant fluctuating tempo then your pretty much stuck to creating many many many warp markers - sorry i couldnt bring you good news !

[mostapha]

check out the abletonlivedj forums…this comes up a lot over there. But, yes…it's tedious.

BTW, if you're putting a yellow warp marker on every bass and snare hit, you're going to break the time-stretching algorithm and wonder why it sounds bad. No, I'm not kidding.

[calvin01]

sorry to tell you this duerr but i saw a vid by moldover years ago and he had untold amounts of markers.i've never understood how someone can warp all there tracks this way without headbutting something concrete till the concrete breaks.

good luck mate,

dont start with every beat straight off though,put them at maybe a minute each marker at first and then start adding and listening.the more you put in straight away the more of a headache it will be

[wrong chris]

BTW, if you're putting a yellow warp marker on every bass and snare hit, you're going to break the time-stretching algorithm and wonder why it sounds bad. No, I'm not kidding.

yeah? what do you suggest then

[Karlos Santos]

I have NEVER warped a track in Abelton in my life.
Gonna give it a go this week for the first time...


Im gonna hate it right..?

[wrong chris]

it's just really monotonous, time-consuming busy work...

the results are worth it though if you like mixing the classic oldies.

[Sherlock Ohms]

I was chatting to a mate about this last night - I don't and wouldn't warp a lot of the stuff I play (old soul/funk/hip-hop, etc). The slight imprecision in the beat can add a lot of soul to a track (though it does make it harder to cock about with a lot of clever Traktor tricks)