Live to Pro Tools

Sebastian · Post by **Sebastian** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:33 pm

Hi

Tonight someone will teach me how to bring in my song in Ableton to Pro Tools. Its about 40 tracks, which will be mixed in PT.

Any suggested tasks to do in Ableton to make migration of tracks to PT work?

threestringclarinet · Post by **threestringclarinet** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:16 pm

Not sure if I'm understanding the question. Are you asking how to get your tracks from Live and import them into PT? If so, the best way that I've found, is to select the length of your session, go to the "render to disc" option choose "all tracks". Then create a folder to store all of your audio in. In PT, just select all the files and import them as new tracks. When you enter the BPM, PT will line everything up. Voila. Hope this helps.

Sebastian · Post by **Sebastian** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:31 pm

yes, thats what I want to do. Export the project all 40 tracks to PT so the engineer can mix em in PT

threestringclarinet · Post by **threestringclarinet** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:45 am

Cool. Then try what i posted. I have been messing around with the best way to transfer to my PT rig. This one worked great. Just make sure you are matching sample and bit rate. Just to avoid problems. Good luck.

leedsquietman · Post by **leedsquietman** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 6:05 am

This way is the best option.

You could also rewire but 40 tracks is more tracks than is ideal for this.

Live has no OMF export, so rendering the all tracks option is probably best.

Sebastian · Post by **Sebastian** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:48 pm

Hi

I tried this. Any way to direct Ableton to dump the rendered wav files to a folder?

It scattered them all over my desktop.

Also, in PT, everything was loud and distorted, unusable

thanks

tricil · Post by **tricil** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:56 pm

Sebastian wrote:Hi

I tried this. Any way to direct Ableton to dump the rendered wav files to a folder?

It scattered them all over my desktop.

Also, in PT, everything was loud and distorted, unusable

thanks

that's cause you selected your Desktop (technically, which is a folder) as the save location... you should "make new folder" and save in there.

leokuma · Post by **leokuma** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:38 pm

Whenever i render a Live track to disk and they are imported to protools, the Live renders are a substantially lower volume. why s this?

Sebastian · Post by **Sebastian** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:40 pm

i had the oppoite effect in my 1st attempt

threestringclarinet · Post by **threestringclarinet** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:07 pm

Hmm. Not sure. Does anyone know if they are (or can be) sent pre-fader?