Working with acappellas/vocals

Insomniac23 · Post by **Insomniac23** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:09 am

Hey people,
I'm fairly new to Ableton, and although I have had some triumph with making some half-decent tracks on the software so far...Remixing, in particular with vocals, seems to be a big headache for me.
I have been given a vocal audio file and have to construct a remix of it, and I'm pretty unsure how to approach it. Some people have told me to build the track 1st then match the vocals to it but I would prefer to build the beat round the vocals which leads to my problem...
In the session view I would have to build the track scene by scene, but triggering different scenes would mean losing the vocals...Does this mean I would have to chop the vocals up in a different DAW,or is there any other tricks of doing this solely in Ableton?

I'd be so grateful if anyone who has experience doing this kind of work and other who know what I'm on about could help me out...even if it's a step-by-step guide to doing the whole track from scratch...
Hopefully I've explained the situation properly to some extent, thanks!

glasvegas · Post by **glasvegas** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:14 am

once your vocal is properly warped (helps if you do it to the original track to get the timing), duplicate the clip as many times as needed and set different start points for each scene. alternatively, if you just want to have the vocal playing right through the set regardless of scenes you can either use one clip with the the stop buttons removed on the empty clips below or you can duplicate the clip and set to legato launch mode.
hope this helps