This tutorial uses Live’s Warping and Clip Envelopes to mash and mangle audio clips. By exploiting these functions, we can achieve effects such as step-sequenced granular stretching, shuffling beats into new time signatures, transient distortion and even creating completely new synths by effecting, slicing and re-arranging...
All the sounds you will hear are the raw output of the clips, no other effects are used!
First up is some background information on Warping and Clip Envelopes, highlighting the features of each we will be playing with, and then swiftly on to the instructions.
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Tutorial 2: Beat Mangling in Ableton Live
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tony spilane
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Re: Tutorial 2: Beat Mangling in Ableton Live
Before reading I just want to say great tutorials and well explained.
I have sort of hi jacked this but I have exhausted these tricks.
they are great but I am wondering now if i need to get something like renoise to have more options as I find these warp modes are a bit fixed.
Why are there not beat triplet warp modes? and maybe you can but I cant seem to be able to modulate the percentage granular box.
Am i missing a massive other part of live or does somebody have some deeper techniques and more creative ways of using warping to mangle.
I have sort of hi jacked this but I have exhausted these tricks.
they are great but I am wondering now if i need to get something like renoise to have more options as I find these warp modes are a bit fixed.
Why are there not beat triplet warp modes? and maybe you can but I cant seem to be able to modulate the percentage granular box.
Am i missing a massive other part of live or does somebody have some deeper techniques and more creative ways of using warping to mangle.
Re: Tutorial 2: Beat Mangling in Ableton Live
yo tony, no worries about the hijacking! thanks for the read.
What exactly are you trying to do? I don't think theres much audio chopping/mangling you can't do with live. Of course the next stage is layering on the effects...
Not saying live is the greatest or anything, just saying, a tool is a tool, you can find way to do most things if you try!
To modulate the grain size (in texture and tones mode), open up the clip envelopes, choose clip as the target (top menu box) and then grain size as the parameter. Now you should be able to edit the envelope.
And if you want to warp beats to a triplet grid, right click on the clip waveform and turn on triplets or hit 'ctrl + 3'.
Hope this helps! No harm in trying out renoise too tho
What exactly are you trying to do? I don't think theres much audio chopping/mangling you can't do with live. Of course the next stage is layering on the effects...
Not saying live is the greatest or anything, just saying, a tool is a tool, you can find way to do most things if you try!
To modulate the grain size (in texture and tones mode), open up the clip envelopes, choose clip as the target (top menu box) and then grain size as the parameter. Now you should be able to edit the envelope.
And if you want to warp beats to a triplet grid, right click on the clip waveform and turn on triplets or hit 'ctrl + 3'.
Hope this helps! No harm in trying out renoise too tho
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tony spilane
- Posts: 34
- Joined: Sun Feb 10, 2008 9:02 pm
Re: Tutorial 2: Beat Mangling in Ableton Live
I was after changing the percentage in the the beat mode but can't seem to do it
Re: Tutorial 2: Beat Mangling in Ableton Live
Ah ye, unfortunately, you can't modulate that parameter, dunno why.
Best work around it is to copy the clip to the session view, chop it up and set the transient fade-out value for each slice as you want, then consolidate it again.
Bit sloppy but hey. If not, just automate a gate effect (you can do this within clip envelopes too)
Best work around it is to copy the clip to the session view, chop it up and set the transient fade-out value for each slice as you want, then consolidate it again.
Bit sloppy but hey. If not, just automate a gate effect (you can do this within clip envelopes too)