Warping non house tunes in Ableton Live 7
Hi,
new to this forum, but looks like a good place to start. I have just started getting used to Ableton Live 7, and need to know how you can warp a non house track, but without getting that time stretched sound applied to it.
When warping non house stuff, it just sounds terrible, surely abelton should be able to cope and I am missing a trick here ?
Thanks in advance.
non house leaves a hell of a lot of genres … care to elaborate ?
80s, motown, hip hop for starters, sorry that was a bit vague 
hip hop shouldnt be a problem as its all drum machines etc .. where as the others will be a bit harder as they are normally all played with live instruments.
What are you doing to warp them at the minute ? Whats your procedure?
ahh, think I got it, re-pitch
I think the issue was I was using the wrong type of warping method, I reckon I will be able to work on it from now, nice one though
I usually use the “Complex” algorithm when doing the warping. I find that in general, it seems to sound the best for a fully intrumented track with vocals. You gotta remember though that you can only stretch a song so much before degrading its quality. If you’re adding a backbeat (i.e. as in a remix etc.) it shouldn’t be so noticable… Good luck!
cheers for that too
ok following on from this, once you have warped them, is it possible to write that warp back to the track, in other words, when you reopen the track in Ableton it realises that you have already done the necessary warping previously ?
yeah definately .. just hit save … wont work on the demo version though
cool, got it
in hip hop i warp every 4 bars all the way through, just to really make sure its locked in.
correct me if I’m wrong, and I could be really, really wrong being I never listen to hip-hop… but isn’t most hip-hop these days produced almost exactly the same as most EDM? Is there a need to warp it?
depends they use all sequencers for the music so sometimes you can use just 2 or 4 warp points.
but if you get into hip hop like the roots they have an actual drummer, your gonna have to warp it.
Oh, well, fair enough then