How do you save a selected part of a clip as a new clip?

ninerays · Post by **ninerays** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:49 am

If I have a long audio clip & I loop part of it - I then want to create a new clip just from the loop in a new clip location - is there a keyboard shortcut for this? Can Live do this at all?

Thanks

pepezabala · Post by **pepezabala** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:54 am

rightclick - "crop"

ninerays · Post by **ninerays** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:59 am

Thanks Yes cropping will work but what if i want to then move along the sample & make another selection & another new clip?

Cropping works but only if I create multiple clips first - not the best workflow when you want to create multiple loops from 1 clip.

Is there any other way?

ninerays · Post by **ninerays** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:27 am

Looks like I'll have to post in the Wishlist forum...

The Carpet Cleaner · Post by **The Carpet Cleaner** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:32 am

ninerays wrote:Looks like I'll have to post in the Wishlist forum...

command + D ( duplicate), then crop sample. 4 seconds...

LeifonMars · Post by **LeifonMars** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:01 am

I don't get it how it hinders your workflow to press command+d. In case it doesn't suit your workflow to multiply your clip in advance, then you can always leave the cropping and duplicate the clip after you've set the markers of the first region and start setting again for the second region etc. If cropping is necessary, do it afterwards. You can crop multiple clips at once.

pepezabala · Post by **pepezabala** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:59 am

If I want to use multiple loops from one clip, then I do not crop at all, then I make several copies of the clip and loop different sections in each one.

This is what this non-destructive-approach is all about. You have one file on your harddisk and can make hundreds or thousands of clips and loops from it without generating a new soundfile each time.

If I have a several minute long recorded file and want to use only three tiny sections of it, then maybe cropping those sections and then deleting the original file would make sense. But when its about making several loops from one complete song that you want to keep on your harddrive anyways, then I make many differen clips as I need without cropping or writing new files on the harddisk.

gjm · Post by **gjm** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:33 am

pepezabala wrote:If I want to use multiple loops from one clip, then I do not crop at all, then I make several copies of the clip and loop different sections in each one.

This is what this non-destructive-approach is all about. You have one file on your harddisk and can make hundreds or thousands of clips and loops from it without generating a new soundfile each time.

Thanks... thats a great tip

squelcht · Post by **squelcht** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:54 am

gjm wrote:
pepezabala wrote:If I want to use multiple loops from one clip, then I do not crop at all, then I make several copies of the clip and loop different sections in each one.

This is what this non-destructive-approach is all about. You have one file on your harddisk and can make hundreds or thousands of clips and loops from it without generating a new soundfile each time.
Thanks... thats a great tip

+1 This was the approach I took back in the day when all my sampling was on the Akai. The less files you had - the less load time - which was hella important for me in many of my sets

Pasha · Post by **Pasha** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:41 pm

pepezabala wrote:If I want to use multiple loops from one clip, then I do not crop at all, then I make several copies of the clip and loop different sections in each one.

This is what this non-destructive-approach is all about. You have one file on your harddisk and can make hundreds or thousands of clips and loops from it without generating a new soundfile each time.

If I have a several minute long recorded file and want to use only three tiny sections of it, then maybe cropping those sections and then deleting the original file would make sense. But when its about making several loops from one complete song that you want to keep on your harddrive anyways, then I make many differen clips as I need without cropping or writing new files on the harddisk.

100% right!
... Sometimes I improvise and record bass lines in a long clip so that I can use the material in several places later,
looping different portions of the clip.

- Cheers
- Paolo

luddy · Post by **luddy** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:06 pm

Perhaps I've misunderstood what you want to do; but if you have a clip in the Arrange view, and you select a portion of it (by dragging and highlighting some part of it), you can use CMD-C and CMD-V to copy and paste that portion as a new clip into a session view clip. This works over multiple tracks; you can select a timespan in several adjacent tracks and copy and paste this span of time as a bunch of new clips in the session view.

-Luddy

ninerays · Post by **ninerays** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:46 pm

Thank you all for your input it has been very useful. It has made me re-think my workflow & wether the clip needs to be cropped at all. I am now selecting my loop & then CTRL + D. This is perfect as it makes a copy of the original with the same loop selected. I can then go on & select another loop & repeat the process - excellent.

enTRAP AG · Post by **enTRAP AG** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:02 am

Yeah, I try not to consolidate anything when I'm chopping. I just basically get my selection and If I'm in arrangement, I just drag to a empty spot or track and in session, I just drag the clip to another slot somewhere and chop more from there. A lot of times I'm working with a drum rack so I just chuck stuff on the pads. I love how it's so easy to drag stuff and it works almost anywhere you let it go.

Soundtrackband · Post by **Soundtrackband** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 10:53 pm

You would think that a program whose entire existence is based on the sample concept would have as its flagship operation the simplest creation of new samples, but no.....
First you gotta hit the loop button, then you gotta drag the sample rack (the part I like), then you gotta right click and look for crop sample, and in my case, the results sound shoved into mid-range frequencies, Maybe someone can tell me why the sound quality degrades noticeably, and I've seen people posting this online.
Fair warning - dont cut 1,000 samples until you hear the results.

When you click on the clip setting, it send you into an outside editor. Let me get this straight, I need to go to Audacity to cut a sample? And yeah, why can't I just drop some crop markers and run a batch function on a track, and it spits out all the samples? HUH? WHY NOT? This is a sample-based program, right?

I appreciate Live a lot on almost every other level, and it's become my DAW, but this lack of functionality is beyond mind-boggling. Is 8 really better? Did they soive this glaring omission?

3dot... · Post by **3dot...** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 5:33 am

Soundtrackband wrote:You would think that a program whose entire existence is based on the sample concept would have as its flagship operation the simplest creation of new samples, but no.....
First you gotta hit the loop button, then you gotta drag the sample rack (the part I like), then you gotta right click and look for crop sample, and in my case, the results sound shoved into mid-range frequencies, Maybe someone can tell me why the sound quality degrades noticeably, and I've seen people posting this online.
Fair warning - dont cut 1,000 samples until you hear the results.

When you click on the clip setting, it send you into an outside editor. Let me get this straight, I need to go to Audacity to cut a sample? And yeah, why can't I just drop some crop markers and run a batch function on a track, and it spits out all the samples? HUH? WHY NOT? This is a sample-based program, right?

I appreciate Live a lot on almost every other level, and it's become my DAW, but this lack of functionality is beyond mind-boggling. Is 8 really better? Did they soive this glaring omission?

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