pottering wrote: ↑Wed Oct 17, 2018 6:07 pm
Live is non-destructive, it doesn't do destructive editing.
Only editing with external editor, which you can specify in the File/Folder Preferences:
https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/clip- ... le-editing
Personally I don't even get why people want destructive editing, I don't see any advantage in destroying the source and always save edits in new files (not only for audio, for gfx work, etc.), and Live does that automatically already.
It is not only about doing stuff in a destructive way, sometimes it is about the way itself. My biggest reason for an external editor is a missing waveform drawing tool like the pencil in ProTools and other Daws, to edit clicks in recordings.
It would be OK if Ableton could do this virtually, this would mean
Live had to store audio copies of that edited segments somewhere in the Metadata, (i don't know if this would be technically practical). In theory we can address some scenarios with volume automation, at least it a substractive way, but when we have not a spike but a few sample short full drop out, a volume automation wouldn't be useful at all, because rising the gain +30 db on a silent part means there is still silence, unlike it would be in a real waveform editing where you can easily fill a gap.
And even if we have to edit a usual spike of maybe 10 db, how would you archive this in a precise way with volume automation? If it is a a stereo file where only one side is affected it gets even more complicate. If we want to do this in a clean way, we always have to do it via trial and error, means to flatten stuff just to see what we have really done to the waveform and undo this if it was too much, not enough, too narrow or to wide, with waveform drawing you will immediately see what you have done. The much faster way is to use Audacity or Pro Tools First as external editor.
and if it works well, will drop a donation