THIS IS WHAT I DO WHEN RECORDING MY VOICE USING AUDACITY. PLEASE TELL ME HOW CAN I ACCOMPLISH THE SAME USING ABLETON.
1. 1ST STEP IN UPLOADING A KARAOKE TRACK IN AUDACITY IS I OPEN AUDACITY. THEN I OPEN A PARTICULAR KARAOKE TRACK I HAVE SAVED IN MY COMPUTER. I HIT THE RECORDING BUTTON IN AUDACITY AND HIT PLAY ON THE KARAOKE TRACK AND AUDACITY STARTS RECORDING THAT KARAOKE TRACK.
2. AFTER AUDACITY HAS RECORDED THAT KARAOKE TRACK, I SAVE THAT TRACK AS A PROJECT IN AUDACITY(AS AN AUP FILE).
3. WHEN I AM READY TO RECORD MY VOICE OVER THAT SAVED PROJECT, I OPEN THE SAVED PROJECT IN AUDACITY AND RECORD MY VOICE OVER THAT TRACK.
4. AFTER I AM SATISFIED WITH MY RECORDING, I EXPORT MY RECORDING AS A MP3 FILE IN AUDACITY.
5. I THEN ADD REVERB TO MY RECORDING AND SAVE THAT RECORDING AGAIN AS A NEW MP3 FILE.
ALL MY KARAOKE TRACKS ARE SAVED IN AUDACITY AS AN MP3 FILE. I UNDERSTAND YOU CAN ONLY SAVE A RECORDED SONG IN ABLETON AS NOT A MP3 BUT A WAV FILE. I WILL HENCEFORTH SAVE ALL MY UPLOADED TRACKS AS A WAVE FILE.
PLEASE GUIDE ME AS TO HOW I CAN DO THE ABOVE USING ABLETON. THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR ANY HELP.
NEED HELP
Re: NEED HELP
Hi Dezy.
First it would be cool to avoid writing using UPPER CASE letters as it generally is felt las shouting. A more meaningful topic's title would also certainly help you.
Then, what your exact problem is about? Recording in Live or exporting to MP3?
Cheers
First it would be cool to avoid writing using UPPER CASE letters as it generally is felt las shouting. A more meaningful topic's title would also certainly help you.
Then, what your exact problem is about? Recording in Live or exporting to MP3?
Cheers
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Re: NEED HELP
sorry about the upper case. i am interested in knowing how to download a karaoke track using ableton. how to save that downloaded track in ableton and then record your voice over that saved karaoke track. after recording your voice over the track, where do you save it in ableton and in what format(wav or mp3).
Re: NEED HELP
In the help menu you can access built-in tutorials... You should definitely start with this.
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Re: NEED HELP
thank you. i will. i will post again if i encounter any complications.
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Re: NEED HELP
you are not making it clear where, or on what you are playing the karaoke track on, or from.
are you playing it on a media player so that both your song , and your voice are recorded simultaneously?
or are you dragging and dropping the karaoke file into audacity THEN, clicking record/play?
the 2nd way is the most common, and probably best way to do it.
you can drop many types of music files into audacity simply by clicking onto and dragging and dropping a file straight into audacity.
this is good since the moment you make a mistake, u just delete the vocal track (clicking onto the "x" on top left of the recorded track)
it would be almost EXACTLY the same with ableton!
rather than wasting your time recording the whole song into audacity or abelton, drag the file into (for example) "1 audio ", then go to "2audio" or open up a "2 audio" channel, and make sure the input is set to "ext" (front mic in, or line-in, much like you would do with audacity, and you do that in "session view" within abelton.
basically you are really wasting time by RECORDING the whole karaoke track before you record your voice onto it.
as for saving work.
each time you do an "edit", or new version, try saving it via "save as" rather than simple "save. as this means you keep each version incase you decide later an earlier version (which can often be the case) is saved, and can be used again and again at a later date, (as you have probably figured out already)... in other words, do not "save" when you add more work to a piece. but instead "save as" and simply, for example add a number to the end so you don't get confused, and abeton does not save it over the top of the older version.
i use audacity to convert my ableton "exports" as mp3 files as they take up less space on storage devices (but ALWAYS save my original wav files onboard my PC)
like audacity, in a sense, ableton is the same in that it has it's own type of file it uses and saves for your project.
both only EXPORT wav (and ogg i think?) (or in audacity wav/mp3 and more)or whatever. but but both do NOT SAVE anything as wav/mp3/ogg etc... these are external to both devices in that they do not save these files within them in the sense you mean here.
although, what they WILL do is when you drag an mp3 or wav file onto the appropriate work space on them, they will store it as an ingredient within the project by converting it into their own project files (aup, or in the case of audacity als)
in short, speed up your work flow by not bothering to RECORD the original karaoke song into audacity or abelton, but simply drag a file into one of the audio channels, then use the audio channel next to it (2 audio would do) next to it to add voice or anything else to by setting it to your mic-in or line-in.
and yes, you can record as much at later dates as you wish (ideally saving each sessiion as it's own project rather than saving over the top of the last one)
eh... did i miss anything out?
you only need to drag the mp3, or wav, or whatever file into audacity or ableton.
this also means you can open up (on both audacity, and ableton) as many vocal tracks as you wish! so you can do your own backing vocals for example. your imagination is the limit as they say!
are you playing it on a media player so that both your song , and your voice are recorded simultaneously?
or are you dragging and dropping the karaoke file into audacity THEN, clicking record/play?
the 2nd way is the most common, and probably best way to do it.
you can drop many types of music files into audacity simply by clicking onto and dragging and dropping a file straight into audacity.
this is good since the moment you make a mistake, u just delete the vocal track (clicking onto the "x" on top left of the recorded track)
it would be almost EXACTLY the same with ableton!
rather than wasting your time recording the whole song into audacity or abelton, drag the file into (for example) "1 audio ", then go to "2audio" or open up a "2 audio" channel, and make sure the input is set to "ext" (front mic in, or line-in, much like you would do with audacity, and you do that in "session view" within abelton.
basically you are really wasting time by RECORDING the whole karaoke track before you record your voice onto it.
as for saving work.
each time you do an "edit", or new version, try saving it via "save as" rather than simple "save. as this means you keep each version incase you decide later an earlier version (which can often be the case) is saved, and can be used again and again at a later date, (as you have probably figured out already)... in other words, do not "save" when you add more work to a piece. but instead "save as" and simply, for example add a number to the end so you don't get confused, and abeton does not save it over the top of the older version.
i use audacity to convert my ableton "exports" as mp3 files as they take up less space on storage devices (but ALWAYS save my original wav files onboard my PC)
like audacity, in a sense, ableton is the same in that it has it's own type of file it uses and saves for your project.
both only EXPORT wav (and ogg i think?) (or in audacity wav/mp3 and more)or whatever. but but both do NOT SAVE anything as wav/mp3/ogg etc... these are external to both devices in that they do not save these files within them in the sense you mean here.
although, what they WILL do is when you drag an mp3 or wav file onto the appropriate work space on them, they will store it as an ingredient within the project by converting it into their own project files (aup, or in the case of audacity als)
in short, speed up your work flow by not bothering to RECORD the original karaoke song into audacity or abelton, but simply drag a file into one of the audio channels, then use the audio channel next to it (2 audio would do) next to it to add voice or anything else to by setting it to your mic-in or line-in.
and yes, you can record as much at later dates as you wish (ideally saving each sessiion as it's own project rather than saving over the top of the last one)
eh... did i miss anything out?
you only need to drag the mp3, or wav, or whatever file into audacity or ableton.
this also means you can open up (on both audacity, and ableton) as many vocal tracks as you wish! so you can do your own backing vocals for example. your imagination is the limit as they say!