Need help making edits in Ableton: Creating acapella sections in tracks

[deevey]

Ableton handles .mp3's fine (trust me).

Until you start loading up mega-sets with .mp3's that total more in size than your Ableton .mp3 decoding cache size.

It'd want to be one hell of a set too - my "default" set has over 200 full length mp3's loaded along with around 400 loops.

Or do you mean export as mp3 ? .. its been talked about a lot on their forums and I for one agree its a basic and these days necessary, function of any production software.

[MisterMoleyMole]

Ableton handles .mp3's fine (trust me).

Until you start loading up mega-sets with .mp3's that total more in size than your Ableton .mp3 decoding cache size.

It doesn't, it converts them to wavs doesn't it, or it used to anyway.

[Patch]

It doesn't, it converts them to wavs doesn't it, or it used to anyway.

Ableton handles .mp3's fine (trust me).

Until you start loading up mega-sets with .mp3's that total more in size than your Ableton .mp3 decoding cache size.

Ableton decodes .mp3's to be dealt with as .wav's.

[MisterMoleyMole]

Yup that's what I was saying. It can't just deal with mp3s hence having to reencode anything that you warp for use I another program. Well unless you want to keep it as a wav. Space would become an issue though if your trying t fix a collection of vinyl rips

[Fingertips]

Try complex or complex pro modes with the above hints for warping whole songs. This was the key I was missing.

[deevey]

Yup that's what I was saying. It can't just deal with mp3s hence having to reencode anything that you warp for use I another program. Well unless you want to keep it as a wav. Space would become an issue though if your trying t fix a collection of vinyl rips

Sorry, I just can't see how its relevant expect for the fact that Ableton doesn't have a native MP3 export function meaning you need to convert the edited WAV in itunes/Audiacity once you are done with the timestretch.

Any software (I'm aware of) where you destructively edit a file (as in make physical changes to it) won't keep the original file as an MP3 while you're working on it within the software. Its decoded on import before making destructive edits. Even Audiacity for example creates its own variation of a raw file chunks (AU files) for track editing purposes.

It seems that you think the the original mp3 should be the exact file being edited without conversion opposed to being opened, converted, edited and exported?