Recording without a bpm/clicktrack...

[Phantom Cosmonaut]

Hey all. I've tried but cannot sort this one out.

I want to record a riff in Ableton without a click track or bpm/beat/ measure setting, basically as if I were jamming to a tape track. Is there a way to do this? I often don't know what the bpm or time signature would be when I'm recording stuff, and would love a way to record free-form.

Anyone out there know how to do this?

Thanks

P. Cosmo

[foxymethoxy]

Hey all. I've tried but cannot sort this one out.

I want to record a riff in Ableton without a click track or bpm/beat/ measure setting, basically as if I were jamming to a tape track. Is there a way to do this? I often don't know what the bpm or time signature would be when I'm recording stuff, and would love a way to record free-form.

Anyone out there know how to do this?

Thanks

P. Cosmo

There is a button near the transport control that has a black circle and and open circle side by side. Click that, it is the metronome button. If you don't want a lead in, go to preferences under Launch and there is a menu for click in.

Also, are you saying you want to do this so you can figure out the tempo/time signature, or because you're a totally free spirit who just like plays what he feels, man, and doesn't need conventional music structure to hold his music back with things like "time?"

[Phantom Cosmonaut]

I'm not so much a free spirit as an untrained musician. Music-math makes my brain hurt and metronomes activate my Manchurian candidate-programming. I'm hoping to avoid recording to say, my Tascam digi-8 track and then doing all the render/conversion work to get it into ableton.

My keyboard riffs are FAR from perfect when I'm making stuff up (or even after much practice for that matter) so it's important to me to record to a "blank" tape track as it were.

Thanks for the help tho' foxy'. We're all free spirits here, man, like far out, and groovy, etc.

[Tone Deft]

in the preferences there's a setting to turn off warp for recordings, I don't recall the name of the setting.

if nothing else, just record into Live and in Clip View turn off warp for the recording when you're done.

I too hate recording to a click track. Looper (Live has been great for this.

prior to Looper, I would just play into Live then go back and find loops from the take that I liked and loop/warp those after the fact.

hth