It will loop for the duration of the timeline that you stretched it to. If your loop points are rhythmic and too your liking, just put the clip in once into arrangement, and drag it out. The other thing I recall about arrangement is that you don't need to copy the clip over and over again. I don't mean that you'll have the most "neutral" influence from the warp engine, I literally mean there's no warp for that clip even when the warp button is active for that clip. Even if the BPM estimate that it gave you is questionable. When a clip and the global tempo are the same, the warp engine is effectively OFF. If it's a divisible error, use the divisible buttons under the estimated clip tempo) Realize that this analysis is based on one warp marker to the next, but it really doesn't matter for this next step:
What did ableton come up with? Even if it's off the mark (if it's REALLY off the mark, start your session in a more ball park BPM and reanalyze the warping. If you're talking about some groves on a track that the wheels go over, yeah, pin them down with warp markers. other way see below:įirst off, appreciate that a on old steam train has a syncopated rhythm, so your transients are not your down-beats necessarily. Well, more people will come to your aid here, but I'll give you first impressions (I'm not in arrangement view much either.) Which seems a long way around for something so damn simple! My workarounds include using Arrangement view to repeatedly paste the same clip (clumsy and means I can't jam in Session view), and turning the clip into a Sampler instrument and manually triggering the sample in time and creating a looped clip that way. Once I warp and loop the clip, though, it all goes out of time, even if I've carefully set my clip loop points. I've tried importing the clip unwarped, listenening to it then tapping the master tempo based on that.
How do I get it into a live set, work out it's 'natural' bpm, set the master tempo then loop it without the warp stuff taking over and mucking up the timing / pitch, etc? I want the natural rhythm of the 'clackety clack' sound to be the basis for the tunes tempo. Here's a scenario I've come up against several times: I have a clip that I want to base a tune around. OK, this has got to be a simple one, but I can't suss it!