Can anyone tell me how or if I can monitor guitar riffs through Amplitube before recording the riff. Or can I only apply Amplitube after recording the riff. I'm able to do this in Cubase, hopefully I can do it in Live.
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Real-time Amplitube monitoring
Re: Real-time Amplitube monitoring
No problem. Put amplitube in your ableton vst effects folder, pick a track in Live on which you want amplitube, and double-click ampltube from your vst effects folder--amplitube is now in the signal chain of the track (given that you are monitoring through live (in options>preferences> audio>monitor through Live>yes )). YOu will have the latency that it takes to get the signal into and out of Live (generally twice the latency going in), depending on your computer and soundcard, it may or may not be "real time" enough for you. I have a P4 2.4, gig RAM, XP Pro TOshiba satellite laptop with RME Multiface soundard, and only have 1.5 ms latency in and 3 ms out through effects--not noticeable. I use amplitube a lot in live for bass and guitar and even key and drum sounds--it is a damn cool program, and it's soooo cool to be able to record dry guitar and bass, then play around with amplitube's settings while playing back the recording to get just the right sound. Hope that ansers your question.akanakis wrote:Can anyone tell me how or if I can monitor guitar riffs through Amplitube before recording the riff. Or can I only apply Amplitube after recording the riff. I'm able to do this in Cubase, hopefully I can do it in Live.
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Ryan
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No, any ableton effect or vst effect are placed into the signal chain of a track AFTER the original signal--therefore you can add and remove effects, turn them on and off, tweak the parameters, all without harming the original material. I think this is a very good thing, because it is non-destructive, and like i said in the earlier post, being able to try different settings on amplitube during playback is very handy in getting the killer tone. To do what you describe and "record" the track post-effects with the amplitube in the chain, one way I know of is to send just the track you want to "re-record" with amplitube to the master outs, then record the master out into another channel--viola, you now have that track with amplitube and any other effect recorded as a new track. Technically it now has no effect on it in the new channels' effect window, and therfore is not taxing cpu power. This would be the real time way of doing it. One other way would be to route just the signal you wish to 're-record" to the master out(turn monitoring off for all undesired channels), then render the file to disk. Once rendered, you can drop the clip into an empty track, and you have the same end result as the other way I desribed. The difference is that option #1 can only be done in real time, but it allows you to do it on the fly without stopping audio. #2 is faster, but you stop audio to render.Anonymous wrote:does that mean that after you record through amplitube the way you described that what you've actualy recorded is the effected signal, so that
now you can delete amplitube from that track and you still have an effected signal???
Myself and others have been pestering Live for a "resample" or overdub type feature. There are differing ideas on how it could be done, but my simple solution would be if you could either record clips in the send slots in the session view--then you could route whatever you wanted to resample (in your case, post effects) to the send, then rerecord it right there. Or to accomplish the same basic thing, if you could route the sends as a "Live in" on a track channel, then you could route whatever you wish to resample to the sends, the route the sends as a "live in" on another track, and record a new clip. This would allow very flexible overdubbing, as you could route as few or as many tracks to the sends, the bring the sends into a track and record the results--allowing you to condense multiple clips into one, and also to overdub something on top of things being resampled through the sends. This is all my current pipe dream, but I know the boys at ableton have got to have something up their sleeve to accomodate all of us Live freaks.
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that sounds like a good idea i'm sure they are listening too.
what I'd love is more features like the render function but with resampling
I'd love to just have a box in each clip/tracks properties that I could check and then press the resample button that would auto maticly resample your current mix to a new clip or track.
what I'd love is more features like the render function but with resampling
I'd love to just have a box in each clip/tracks properties that I could check and then press the resample button that would auto maticly resample your current mix to a new clip or track.
[quote=" I'd love to just have a box in each clip/tracks properties that I could check and then press the resample button that would auto maticly resample your current mix to a new clip or track.[/quote]
That would be the shizzle dizzle! between our two ideas, anything could be possible. That would be great to be able to resample a clip with effects and tweaks right back into another clip slot on the same channel, I guess Live would have to automatically start playing the resample clip as soon as it is stopped/looped, as the two simultaneous clips per track is currently not possible. Take it easy.
That would be the shizzle dizzle! between our two ideas, anything could be possible. That would be great to be able to resample a clip with effects and tweaks right back into another clip slot on the same channel, I guess Live would have to automatically start playing the resample clip as soon as it is stopped/looped, as the two simultaneous clips per track is currently not possible. Take it easy.