quantizing

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mister9
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quantizing

Post by mister9 » Tue Jan 25, 2011 2:21 am

When I reload drum clips into a session I find that they have become quantized, whereas I had saved them as not quantized. How can I reverse this quantizing without moving each note at a time to a 'looser' feel.
It is almost like my 'save' action does not take full effect and I end up with drum clips that are too quantized.
I'd appreciate any suggestions you can send my way. If I could solve this problem it would save me a lot of time.
Thanks
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Re: quantizing

Post by Rabalder » Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:53 am

Turn off the "warp-button" inside the clip..

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Re: quantizing

Post by mister9 » Tue Jan 25, 2011 7:03 pm

These are midi clips, so the warp button does not apply.

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Re: quantizing

Post by jesus god sandal » Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:51 pm

so what exactly did you save?
Are you saying that you made a drum loop, dragged each hit so that it wasn't perfectly quantized, and saved the clip as a loop? or saved the whole set, and when you re-open it, it becomes quantized again?

Another thing you can do is just use the groove feature, although I'm not fully sure what you're asking
Unless perhaps you accidentally loaded a drum loop that isn't the one that you saved
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Re: quantizing

Post by mister9 » Wed Jan 26, 2011 1:34 am

This is what I saved. I recorded drums on an Alesis SR-16 and then loaded them onto my computer a couple of years later and dragged them into their corresponding Ableton Live sessions. I did some slight quantizing because the clips lost some of their timing in the transfer from drum machine to computer.
I then saved these drum clips to my library. Each one is a couple of bars in length....... some repeat in the song and others don't.

Now when I open up a session I find that parts of these clips that I saved have become 100% quantized, which is a drag.
Either the saving isn't doing a perfect job, or there is something else going on.

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