How to string songs together

[briolate]

Probably a noob question here. I was just wondering if there was a way to link separate songs together in ableton. I'm recording an EP and want a couple of the songs to lead right into others. Is there a way to achieve this in ableton? Much thanks.

[roothewhirl]

You know, I usually use Steinberg's Wavelab for this, and it usually works out pretty good. I don't know about natively being able to do it in Ableton Live.

I guess you could export the songs individually, then load them all into a new project and do all of your fades and edits, then save out the entire project and trim the songs in a wave editing program (like Wavelab or Soundforge).

Then burn them using program with 0 audio gaps (maybe iTunes, or more profesionnaly Wavelab).

I hope that helps (and makes sense!)

Good luck.

-Ryan

[DangerousDave]

Yea, as long as the songs themselves play right until the end of the length of the track, just set the audio gap to 0 in your respective burning program. Itunes works fine for me.

[outershpongolia]

depends on if the tempos chagne, and what kind of transition you want, how you're producing (session, arrangement, etc), and maybe a few other factors..

I name all my scenes in the tempo/timesig that they are in, this way I can go from the end of any song into the beginning of any other song and live takes care of the tempo/timesig BUT it still doesn't always sound right because of the quick transition, other times it's freakin' sweet.. this is during performance, but if I were to make 2 consecutive tracks I'd probably just go ahead and produce them as one long track, if that makes any sense.

so do you just have a bunch of finished tracks that you want to string together? DangerousDave's suggestion is probably the easiest, and it would be a required step eitherway or else all of your work putting them together would be lost when burning the CD.

[leedsquietman]

If you are crossfading tracks together, an audio editor (such as Soundforge/Wavelab etc) or a CD authoring program (CD Architect/Samplitude/Waveburner) etc allow you to crossfade tracks into each other and they allow you to set the track markers so the CD jumps to the track, which I think is better than having one long index and having to manually fast forward.

(Prince's album Lovesexy is a good example of this, one index, if you want to hear track nine, you have to virtually wear out your finger holding down the manual fast forward key for ages - I actually extracted the audio into CD Architect, set individual track markers and burned this to a CD rom and now can fast forward to each track with no probs).

[Pyro Z]

Yeah, CD Architect is definitely your best bet. It costs money, but it will help you with other issues you might run into when burning a whole album.

[briolate]

Thanks a lot guys. Great info in here.