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Hi, i'm pretty new to Live, and i really need to know if theres a way to remove the beat from one or more songs, to mix them together and create my own beat.
Thanks,
Ross.

what you ask is impossible.

ok, thanks.
umm what about a plugin or something to mix two beats / songs together?
anything you would reccomend?

RossRossRoss wrote:ok, thanks.
umm what about a plugin or something to mix two beats / songs together?
anything you would reccomend?

A DJ?

The answer to your question is on the Ed Banger messageboard.

http://breakbeat.hattrixx.co.uk/

this site may help, it goes on about using wave editors and samplers etc but it all can be done in live

RossRossRoss wrote:Hi, i'm pretty new to Live, and i really need to know if theres a way to remove the beat from one or more songs, to mix them together and create my own beat.
Thanks,
Ross.

you can play around with filters and EQ, but essentially once a tracks made you can't really delete elements from it wholesale. you could try to cut out any sections that don't have the beat in them and loop them/rearrange them to make a beatless version...

Hi Ross

The best that you will manage is to go through the song and find a section where there is (hopefully) only the beat playing without any vocals or other instruments. You only need one bar. Then you could take that bar, slice a couple of beats, and move them around a bit to make a variation of the first bar.

J

The analogy that gets bantered around here is this:

songs are cakes. Once mixed & baked, you can't extract the flour.

Unless you are a very good chemist.

Its best to find the raw materials, like wavecycle says.
Find sections with mostly just beats. You can eventually use those EQ and expander tricks more efficiently when you make them work less hard

But first, learn to loop & learn to listen for loops.