Vocals Take and Comping
Vocals Take and Comping
Live is perfect in every way except I wish there was a simpler way to do Vocal takes + editing/comping - more like Pro Tools or Logic (Quick Swipe). Does anyone here record vocals into Live? If so, what's your technique? Perhaps I'm simply overlooking something.
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Re: Vocals Take and Comping
i do.
you can setup an editor in Live's Preferences (File Folder tab). i use Sound Forge 9.
you can setup an editor in Live's Preferences (File Folder tab). i use Sound Forge 9.
Re: Vocals Take and Comping
This is 1 area were Live is severely lacking. If I'm comping guitars in Live, sometime I just record 4 to 8 bars of the riff in session view then pick the best one & use warp markers (which I find especially excellent for this task) to fix any timing issues. Vocals is a different story, if the vocal is anyway complex or requires a lot of takes I'll just fire up Reaper which is pretty decent for comping. I'm really hoping Live 9 has some sort of comping feature as well as 64bit & a few other features but that's another story
Re: Vocals Take and Comping
it's a poor replacement...
but if you turn on "loop" for the section your recording you can do several takes in a row, then stretch out your clip and copy/paste into new channels.
but if you turn on "loop" for the section your recording you can do several takes in a row, then stretch out your clip and copy/paste into new channels.
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Re: Vocals Take and Comping
there are a few methods such as having loop on and having several blank tracks ready for recording.. just a matter of switching tracks after each loop.. there are a few others i've read but I switched to the props Record for recording any vocals for any comping.. far way superior as far as workflow.. hopefully ableton 9 will do some improvements
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Re: Vocals Take and Comping
I believe this is the method that they used to advertise in videos on the Ableton site.Jekblad wrote:it's a poor replacement...
but if you turn on "loop" for the section your recording you can do several takes in a row, then stretch out your clip and copy/paste into new channels.
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it works though... especially by yourself. i do it. if i stop and listen to every take, after about 3 or 4 goes... i'm (often) done. i UN-inspire myself right out of continuing before i even get warmed up. nothing is better than having someone else at the console while you focus on JUST vocals, but that is a luxury i rarely have. the method quoted above is the next best thing - a console running itself.Warrior Bob wrote:I believe this is the method that they used to advertise in videos on the Ableton site.Jekblad wrote:it's a poor replacement...
but if you turn on "loop" for the section your recording you can do several takes in a row, then stretch out your clip and copy/paste into new channels.