Ableton Forum

OK, standard disclaimer about being a newb...

I have two vocals recorded, one male, one female, for a chorus. Each of them says a few words, breaks, says a few more, breaks, etc. The intent was to alternate them male/female/male/female. Good enough.

But the loops are basically recorded the same in terms of where the vocal actually starts and stops relative to the start of the loop.

What I want is to put them on adjacent tracks (in Session View), and play them on the same scene while I continue to play with how I want the song to layout. But because they start at the same point, they play at the same point and overlap instead of alternating.

I must be thinking about this the wrong way, but how do I basically add some empty space to the beginning of a loop so that playback is delayed by a couple of seconds? There's not enough room in the WAV files, and I'd prefer not to have to resort to re-editing them externally in case I want to use them another way.

How do I achieve the same end result with what Live offers?

check the manual for CONSOLIDATE.
in arrange view select some blank space as well as the vocal part and hit edit-consolidate to join the blank space onto the clip, then you can take it back to session view.

or

put them into arrange view, align them how you want. let's say they're on tracks 1 and 2.
setup arrange view to loop around those parts. (highlight the section and hit ctrl-L.
go back to session view (or stay in arrange view) and play along in track 3.

or

(might not work)
in clip view set the start point to the END of one of the clips in the blank area so blank areas at the end play, it loops to the begining and plays.

Tone Deft wrote:check the manual for CONSOLIDATE.

Perfection. Worked like a champ -- including snapping to the exact amount of blank space I needed. They fold together perfectly!

Thanks for the quick answer.

dope shit. i might need that one day so thanks for that info.