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I made some music in Live 9 and mixed it out of the box. The song consists of both MIDI and Audio. I summed down and re-recorded the newly mixed version back into Ableton successfully, but there is one problem. When I export it and make it a .wav or .aiff only the audio plays I know that I'm doing something incorrectly or missing a step so if someone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it very much

Thanks,
Mucktone

Do you have Warp switched off for the newly recorded file? If you are re-importing it, Live might be re-warping it if the new project is at a different tempo. You can turn OFF "Autowarp long samples" in Lives preferences.

Switched warp to off... Didn't help. The tracks play fine after they are recorded back into Live. The problem is when I convert them to wav or aiff. When I play either file outside of Live only the audio that was actually recorded plays. So only recorded bass and guitar can be heard but no instruments from Ableton- virtual drums, synths, sound fx whatever. It's like it was never even there. Hmmm.

How are you exporting everything? Maybe that will help narrow down what you're doing wrong.

Of course. First I select the tracks that I want to export. Then Export Audio/Video. Then-

Rendered track- Selected tracks only
Render the length of the tracks
Render as loop- off
File Type- wav
44.1
16 bit
Triangular dither
Create Analysis File- On
Normalize- off
Convert to mono- off
Everything else- off
Press Export

When all is finished I press play on the wav icon and only the bass and guitar are present. I thought this might have something to do with the whole Export *AUDIO*/ video but thats all I can see. Does that tell you anything?

Mucktone wrote:Of course. First I select the tracks that I want to export. Then Export Audio/Video. Then-

Rendered track- Selected tracks only

Aha! There's your problem! Select "Master" here and you will get all your tracks, as per the Master output channel, mixed down into a stereo WAV or AIFF.
The "Selected Tracks Only" option does just that - it renders ONLY the tracks you currently have selected. This is used when you want to export stems (ie individual multi-tracks) to another app, or to make up a remix kit.

Make sense?

PRTFM

5.2.3 Exporting Audio and Video

Did you export it as a red file?

Sounds more like a Virtual Dj issue than something with Live. Live doesn't embed tempo data in the file or anything like that, so there's really nothing it can do wrong in this situation. Does the track sound like its playing at the correct tempo to you?

Tarekith wrote:Did you export it as a red file?

Sounds more like a Virtual Dj issue than something with Live. Live doesn't embed tempo data in the file or anything like that, so there's really nothing it can do wrong in this situation. Does the track sound like its playing at the correct tempo to you?

Red file? I don't think so. I exported it both as AIF and WAV and they both do the exact same thing. And yes, the file plays normally, and it sounds like the correct BPM in Virtual DJ, it just has an incorrect BPM tag and the 4/4 beat boxes are all over the place.

Strange thing is I have encountered this issue with many other WAV songs I have downloaded, but when I convert the WAV to MP3 the song is fixed. Not in this situation.