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Yes, I know there's a lot of information out there about syncing acapella tracks, but from all my searching I've only found out how to capture the acapella bpm FIRST and then build an instrumental around it. What I want to do is insert an acapella into a pre-made instrumental, but every time I do ...

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not only are the 2 programs not starting at the same time, but FL Studio is playing at a completely different tempo when I press play from Ableton. When I press play from FL Studio (which does not trigger Ableton to start), it plays at the correct tempo. When I switch back to Ableton ...

I have FL studio as a slave in Ableton, but when I hit play (from Ableton) there's a bit delay between when the two come in. How can I go about getting them in sync so they're both coming in on the one beat?

I've tried various combinations of midi and buffer settings in both programs but it's not ...

by the way...has anyone noticed how much quiter clips are when loaded into the sampler? I always have to boost the volume a huge amount (whereas it'll sounds fine as a plain clip) and then there's often distortion when I do boost it.

My workaround unfortunately is Kontakt 3.

Is Kontakt like an external (or vst?) sampler i can use from within Ableton?...if so, I may have to check that out.

Glad to see other people who are as frustrated by this as me. I agree - it shouldn't be such a revolutionary request. It seems quite ...

I found that out by doing a search...so the only way I've figured out to get around this is put the sound in an audio clip, let ableton warp it, then record it to another track, and drag it into the sampler. Of course, if I decide I want it at a different pitch and still be in time, I have to go ...