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Why is warping a pre-requisite for looping?

it's not - if the tempo is the same as the original tempo of the clip, warping is disabled, even though the button is lit up - unless of course you start moving warp markers etc

forge wrote:it's not - if the tempo is the same as the original tempo of the clip, warping is disabled, even though the button is lit up - unless of course you start moving warp markers etc

Well, it still requires the clip to be selected as warped, and thus changed along with any tempo change.

And sometimes you'd like a clip to loop without regard for the song tempo.

I agree, it is too bad.

workaround, but resampling the clip, with your preferences set to auto-warp will give you a warped clip that maintains its own timing...

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krank wrote:

forge wrote:it's not - if the tempo is the same as the original tempo of the clip, warping is disabled, even though the button is lit up - unless of course you start moving warp markers etc

Well, it still requires the clip to be selected as warped, and thus changed along with any tempo change.

And sometimes you'd like a clip to loop without regard for the song tempo.

just manually change the orig. tempo in the clip

OP - nope. train wrecks.

if you want to loop asynchronously just type in its original bpm.

way more users would like it as is, few would like it as you're asking, even then only in a few cases. in which case just type in a different bpm than the project's bpm.

I've criticised this many times (i.e. here: http://www.macspot.de/reviews/review/ableton-live-7/), but so far nothing has changed. I'm positive it will someday though.

yeah its bugging me too. and also, why doesnt the clip adopt any bpm that I type in? the :2 and *2 always works, but typing any value doesnt always work, I dont get it.

FORMAT wrote:I've criticised this many times (i.e. here: http://www.macspot.de/reviews/review/ableton-live-7/), but so far nothing has changed. I'm positive it will someday though.

what is your main reason for wanting it to change?

is it that you want to be able to change the tempo on the fly and have it not follow but keep looping? that's the only thing I can think of because you can do it now

@Grappadura - It works for me - do you have some other warp markers in the file - has Live inserted some automatically? if so then try right clicking on the first one and choosing 'warp from here (straight)' then try it

thx forge, ill check it out!

forge wrote:

FORMAT wrote:I've criticised this many times (i.e. here: http://www.macspot.de/reviews/review/ableton-live-7/), but so far nothing has changed. I'm positive it will someday though.

what is your main reason for wanting it to change?

I just want to have unwarped clips play in a loop as in any other software, regardless of the song tempo.
Plus, warping is prone to artifacts. So another reason to leave the file as it is when no changes in tempo are required.

looping unwarped clips is possible by using follow action (play again-mode). But loop-lengths is determined by beats and not by the clip's original length.

We need a follow action mode that allows to set the length to 'clip length' instead of bars/beats. This would be handy also for automaticly shuffled dj-sets ... and any other unquantized crazyness.

pepezabala wrote:looping unwarped clips is possible by using follow action (play again-mode). But loop-lengths is determined by beats and not by the clip's original length.

We need a follow action mode that allows to set the length to 'clip length' instead of bars/beats. This would be handy also for automaticly shuffled dj-sets ... and any other unquantized crazyness.

Yes, that's one solution to a problem that's relatively simple to fix: Just allow looping for all samples.