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I'm a bit new to Ableton and completely new to the forums, so this will probably be my first of many poorly informed posts. Right now I'm recording with 5 and I love it, but there's something I'm trying to figure out how to do right now.

What I've done is taken a piano track I recorded and selected .5 seconds of it's audio for looping. I then take this one little piece of audio thats infinetely looping then apply transposition (spelling?) to it in real time. In other words, as the loop is playing I use my mouse to move the transpose level from 0 to whatever at a rythmatic pace so as to create a neat little piece of music. The problem is I cant seem to get Ableton to record these actions.

I'll hit record up top, then press play and do my thing with the loop for however long I see fit. Once I'm done I click the stop button then export the audio. The WAV that comes out however doesnt have my mouse actions recorded, it just plays the loop for however long I had it selected and at whatever transpose level the transpose was set on when I clicked stop. How do I make it so Ableton will record everything I do to it as I do it then save it in the appropriate WAV? CAN I do this?

ok, i'll explain you what i would do to achieve this:
i guess your little loop is in the arrangement view.
make sure its "loop" button is set to ON.
expand it so that it covers a long part of the arrangement.
now in its envelope window, click on the transpose button, then on "unlink", and draw a curve that will rise over the number of bars you want.

i hope this is clear.
if you didn't understand everything, just try to do things with some of the parameters.
clearly, recording a small loop and making it a big wav file just to have the pitch change over a few bars is not the way to do it in Live.

Cheers peeddrroo - been looking for a way to do this for a while!

btw, you may need to "expand" to see the envelope window! (the "E" button next to the highlighted button)



Thanks again!