Turning hour-long .wav file into shorter tracks

[hujairi]

I just finished recording a long track (experimental album). I was wondering if Ableton Live has quick and easy way of putting in track markers in the audio file so that I can export the final product as shorter tracks rather than a single .wav file. If this is possible, is it also possible to set up the tracks as a gapless album, with no 2-second gaps between each track?

Cheers.

[H20nly]

It only exports whats "highlighted" why not use some track markers to decide where your divisions are going to be and then export section 1, section 2 and so on?

The second part of your question depends as much on what you re-assemble your track with as what you sliced it with. So yes, but make sure that both pieces of software's settings are where they need to be before you press the go button.

[shacktown]

I would also like to be able to do this... I routinely pull in a recording of my band's recent gig or practice. I use the "split" feature in live to separate the long recording into pieces. But, then have to select each one individually and "export".

Having a facility to "batch" export individual parts of a track using a naming convention (name1.wav, name2.wav, etc.) would save a great deal of time!

[8O]

Hi,

I guess this is the same question as this thread - http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=102228 - yeah?

I use Live -> wav -> Nero -> Track Markers -> CD, if I need to do this.

[re.mark]

Possible temporary solution:

Slice down your audio file into each track.
Move each slice/track down onto a new channel, placing it at the very start each time.
Export Audio > Rendered Track: All tracks.
Then you'll have Wavs of each track which you can import into iTunes and tick the 'part of a gapless-album' box or Nero and select 'gap 0secs' or other application application.

[H20nly]

Possible temporary solution:

Slice down your audio file into each track.
Move each slice/track down onto a new channel, placing it at the very start each time.
Export Audio > Rendered Track: All tracks.

That sounds like the ticket!

[shacktown]

Good suggestions guys -- tx!

Still, would be great if Live could cover this....

[pepezabala]

drop the long clip into arrangement.

select your shorter sections, split (ctrl-e)

rename each clip.

consolidate each clip.

You will find the new (short) WAVs in the project folder (samples/processed/consolidate/ ..)

[hujairi]

Thank you all for your input! I tried consolidating everything just as pepezabala suggested and it worked out great!

[milosh]

drop the long clip into arrangement.

select your shorter sections, split (ctrl-e)

rename each clip.

consolidate each clip.

You will find the new (short) WAVs in the project folder (samples/processed/consolidate/ ..)

there is only one problem, that when you consolidate LIVE automaticly normalizes every clip. Is there a possibility to turn off the normalization when consolidating ?

cheers
milo