Slynk! You rock son!... I love the way you explain this DAW... this video was recorded 6 year ago and now 2024 nothing has change.. The best tutorial in warping and time streatch on TH-cam. Thanks bro!!
Slynk!!!! You became my favorite TH-camr in less than a week! You do a perfect job of explaining things. I never feel bored or overwhelmed. You hit the sweet spot of explaining and pacing to match how I learn. Thank you so much! Do you have some kind of Patreon or way I can support you?
Good tutorial :) I made some extra notes people might find useful: - Tones mode is dynamic and changes in realtime based on the signal (sample). The Grain size is just an average in that case. In Texture mode the grain size is the exact value used per grain in milliseconds (unless you add flux randomisation). * Tip: Grain size can be misused to make crazy formant sounds especially when it's modulated. You kinda touched on it in the video. I tend to set the transpose at least an octave or two up and the grain size to ~130 and have quick sliding modulations. I think this works better on vocals and synths as opposed to drums but it's all fair game. - Beats mode with either of the looping settings will only loop the latter half of each segment (from the closest zero crossing) - not the entire segment. * Tip: You can place a bunch of transient markers (or warp markers) near each other throughout the sample and use a high transpose setting to get cool retrig/stutters that sound reminiscent of Infected Mushroom's stuff. If you don't want to change the original pitch You can use Complex to transpose shift your source sample down first and render or consolidate that then transpose the result back up using the the beats transient stutter method. - You can use Quantize on the audio the same as you would with a midi clip which should speed up lining up things like the guitar riff used in the video. There will still be minor changes to make after like shift-moving those offset markers that Live didn't get right but overall should be faster I think. Cheers for the note on ZPlane's input, I always assumed the Complex modes were secret Ableton in-house stuff. I can read up about them some more now :)
Fantastic tutorial! I'm transitioning from using Reason to Ableton, and have just learned about the launch and randomization/quantization settings. Now I need to dive into warping and the settings for timestretching, and this video created a guide for me by which I feel I don't need to see any other tutorials on timestretching in Ableton. Thanks a LOT!
dude ur awsome most to the point and explanatory tutorials I have came across give yourself a pat on the back for me because my hand doesn't want to fit threw the computer box screen majigi... thanx mate!!!
Great tutorial my friend. I respect you for sharing knowledge with others as you learn yourself, because knowledge is power. Takes a big person to do that ✊ Keep Rockin!
I love screwing around with Groove Templates. Applying grooves on different parts and places and experimenting with them for different feel and subtle nuances. Definitely helps. Been diving hardcore into Ableton recently. All making a lot more sense now.
Thanks so much for all your tutorials dude! They've helped me so much and consistently inspire me to learn more. Also, you're set at rabbits eat lettuce this year was off the chain. Much love.
Amazing video dude. Answered nearly every question I had vis a vis time stretching and warping. Moving transients was giving me extreme headaches. Thank you!
The only video on youtube I could find that clarifying how it actually works! Thank you! Hasn't Complex/Complex Pro got improved in Live 10? I was wondering how to make a proper DJ mix in Ableton Live, if long tracks cannot be stretched without damaging the audio, unless it's re-pitch mode It seems warping algorithms in Serato or Rekordbox are much more polite and accurate to the audio... But if there's a need to make a non-live mix, what should I do?
A good addendum to this would be how to properly add a acapella using the time stretch. I have seen others do it, and i still struggle. Do you have a vid that covers that?
Great vids slynk. I've been using live for a couple of years and i'm stuck doing things mostly the same way and not exploring all the possibilities. This one gave me inspiration to start warping the shit out of things ;D thanks!
Hey Slynk, very nice tutorial but you have mistaken the definition of tones and texture algorithms. You basically swapped them :) To clarify a bit: ''tones'' works best with monophonic sounds (i.e bass, vocals, leads) and ''texture'' works best with polyphonic content (i.e pads, ambiences or drones). All the rest is very good, thanks for going deep in explaining algorithms, especially with the visual demonstration you did with the audio clip! Cheers
Hello Slynk! Thank for video, did you know maybee in 2023 world have any plugins with LIVE warp/time stretch algorithms(like Zynaptiq Wormhole). I think will be great play on synth and hear instantly stretching sound in time.
Shoutout to the guy who made this video. I have zero usage for this knolage as I don't use Ableton or make music or edit audio in any way but you did a great job explaining everything in great detail. Also your glasses are rad as fuck
this is a top notch tutorial i've been using cubase 8 pro for a while now and i'm seeing some major differences in what each can do well and for the guitar timing, cubase has an incredibly intuitive iterative quantize mode that basically does all the manual work for you without destroying the sound too much i love ableton's fx chain and the sampler but in terms of convenience, it falls a bit short also, i really hope i could solo and arm tracks with my keyboard instead of having to do everything with my mouse :(
There is really no difference between them in terms of how they affect the sound when warping. The grey sudo transient markers have been automatically created by Ableton after importing the audio file. It's a convenience thing. However, moving a grey marker and clicking in into a grid line will affect position of all previous and following grey markers to proportionally match the change you made. The yellow markers will never move if you move other markers near it so they are like anchored in a fixed position. So, for example, if i'm warping a long audio file, I like to set a yellow marker at the beginning and the end to start with, then I'll set a marker at the half way point and then at the half way point of the half way point and so on until I have framed each whole beat division with a yellow marker before getting down to the nitty gritty. If I don't do this and start setting my sudo transient markers to the closest grid line from beginning to end, I might find out that the rest of the clip has suffered so many tempo changes that I've completely lost track of the intended timing of the audio clip. I may do another video where I warp an acapella. These are especially hard because sometimes it's hard to tell where the start and end position is. There a re a few tricks to make it easier that I didn't explain in this video. 20min long, kinda ran out of time haha! Probably more info than you really need but I hope that helps.
If you only need a couple warp markers to bring the audio to the correct timing, would this also preserve the audio quality more? The less warp markers the better?
I bought an APC40 MKII midi controller some time ago, and wanted to be able to record and loop my guitar without touching Ableton (my computer), and I think a need a footswitch to do that. Really I don’t know if I need this to do it, and if I do, wich footswich should I buy? Just a regular amazon footswitch or a special one for this midi controller? And if I buy one, could I use like a sustain pedal also? Sorry, but I don’t understand much about midi controller’s and the general things I should know.
I'm interested to see what Magix does with Acid Pro since they bought the software rights. Acid would have been one of the go to daw's today if Sony would have a had any type of vision.
Thanks for this very informative demo. Seems like only "beats" is artifact-free but I'm not sure how well that would apply to less "beat-y" stuff. I feel like Logic Pro is still the only DAW whose tempo-fitting time-stretching doesn't introduce artifacts for complex material. Has anyone found anything better yet?
hey slynk if you warping a whole track with to new bpm and you also want to raise the pitch, to me it sounds best on re-pitch because as you raise the tempo the pitch naturally changes too however I'm not sure its tuned to whatever new pitch its in what I'm asking is.. does transposing semitones keep it in tune with the key its in? and re pitch can make it out of tune? I've tried to tune it using tuner while adjusting the bpm while its on re-pitch but it doesn't read what notes its hitting.
Thanks a lot for this! You’re a star. So, for Warping a song performed by live musicians, what’s best for speeding up? Would you Warp individual tracks or the whole song for the most natural sounding results? Following these advice, Complex Pro would loose some high end, but would you ever use Beats mode for vocals? Seeing that it’s the least intrusive it makes sense, but I’m confused now... I really thought Complex Pro was the shizznit..
Quick Q: If you are doing a remix, have the stems of the track, and intend to increase the tempo by about 10bpm, what would your process be? Would you chop up all sections you intend to use, and then warp accordingly first - OR - would you apply a 'good-enough' warp mode on everything, adjust tempo, and then only adjust/re-warp all the sections that were actually used in the final version of your track?
hi can you help me somone i have project i need to finish fast i recently bought ableton intro 10 and thers no complex pro on audio. only beats tones textur and repitch . i tried everything still sound robotic
0:42 repitch
1:04 tones
2:28 texture
4:10 beats
9:10 complex
11:45 complex pro
14:25 application/context
Thank you lol
Thanks again!
Doing god's work
Slynk! You rock son!... I love the way you explain this DAW... this video was recorded 6 year ago and now 2024 nothing has change.. The best tutorial in warping and time streatch on TH-cam. Thanks bro!!
Thanx Slynk! I just started using this technique for a remix contest. This helped a lot.
Slynk!!!! You became my favorite TH-camr in less than a week! You do a perfect job of explaining things. I never feel bored or overwhelmed. You hit the sweet spot of explaining and pacing to match how I learn. Thank you so much! Do you have some kind of Patreon or way I can support you?
this comment just made my day
Good tutorial :)
I made some extra notes people might find useful:
- Tones mode is dynamic and changes in realtime based on the signal (sample). The Grain size is just an average in that case. In Texture mode the grain size is the exact value used per grain in milliseconds (unless you add flux randomisation).
* Tip: Grain size can be misused to make crazy formant sounds especially when it's modulated. You kinda touched on it in the video. I tend to set the transpose at least an octave or two up and the grain size to ~130 and have quick sliding modulations. I think this works better on vocals and synths as opposed to drums but it's all fair game.
- Beats mode with either of the looping settings will only loop the latter half of each segment (from the closest zero crossing) - not the entire segment.
* Tip: You can place a bunch of transient markers (or warp markers) near each other throughout the sample and use a high transpose setting to get cool retrig/stutters that sound reminiscent of Infected Mushroom's stuff. If you don't want to change the original pitch You can use Complex to transpose shift your source sample down first and render or consolidate that then transpose the result back up using the the beats transient stutter method.
- You can use Quantize on the audio the same as you would with a midi clip which should speed up lining up things like the guitar riff used in the video. There will still be minor changes to make after like shift-moving those offset markers that Live didn't get right but overall should be faster I think.
Cheers for the note on ZPlane's input, I always assumed the Complex modes were secret Ableton in-house stuff. I can read up about them some more now :)
7:43 where have I heard that before? ;)
So glad Ableton posted your vocoder vid. Best videos, clings to my brain. Thanks
Fantastic tutorial! I'm transitioning from using Reason to Ableton, and have just learned about the launch and randomization/quantization settings. Now I need to dive into warping and the settings for timestretching, and this video created a guide for me by which I feel I don't need to see any other tutorials on timestretching in Ableton. Thanks a LOT!
I must admit, I don't normally comment on stuff but this was so helpful. Thanks for all the videos!
Nicely laid out! Plus, the mention of being able to use not just one mode for a single clip is brilliant! Gettin ready for the pros...
Such a killer video. Thank you X 1,000,000. This cleared up a LOT of confusion.
Good looking out on this tutorial.
Cleared up some issues with warping. Abelton is
Thanks a lot man. This was a great video demonstrating all of the warping features. big up!
dude ur awsome most to the point and explanatory tutorials I have came across give yourself a pat on the back for me because my hand doesn't want to fit threw the computer box screen majigi... thanx mate!!!
Great tutorial my friend. I respect you for sharing knowledge with others as you learn yourself, because knowledge is power. Takes a big person to do that ✊ Keep Rockin!
I love screwing around with Groove Templates.
Applying grooves on different parts and places and experimenting with them for different feel and subtle nuances. Definitely helps.
Been diving hardcore into Ableton recently. All making a lot more sense now.
Thanks so much for all your tutorials dude! They've helped me so much and consistently inspire me to learn more.
Also, you're set at rabbits eat lettuce this year was off the chain. Much love.
+Clan Muller cheers dude! Glad you liked the set!
Amazing video dude. Answered nearly every question I had vis a vis time stretching and warping. Moving transients was giving me extreme headaches. Thank you!
was trying to figure out how to warp my drum samples thank you so much this solved my issues!
Brilliant video, my friend! Thanks for the solid rundown! :D
Top notch vid! I find ableton a joy to use but I've had issues getting my head around warping. Nice one
Awesome tutorial. Never thought I'd hear Fourier transforms come up in an Ableton tutorial but makes total sense B-) Nice one Slynk!
The only video on youtube I could find that clarifying how it actually works! Thank you!
Hasn't Complex/Complex Pro got improved in Live 10?
I was wondering how to make a proper DJ mix in Ableton Live, if long tracks cannot be stretched without damaging the audio, unless it's re-pitch mode
It seems warping algorithms in Serato or Rekordbox are much more polite and accurate to the audio... But if there's a need to make a non-live mix, what should I do?
A good addendum to this would be how to properly add a acapella using the time stretch. I have seen others do it, and i still struggle. Do you have a vid that covers that?
the way you explain this stuff is great. thank you
Slynk you're a great teacher, subbed.
dude you are a master at Ableton. learned a lot from these tutorials.
You should be a teacher you do a great job at explaining the points you're trying to explain. Great Job
Great video, thank you! What was the part where you applied the groove to the guitar sample. Was that the drum track?
Dude glad to see you back! Thanks for another killer tutorial.
Great vids slynk. I've been using live for a couple of years and i'm stuck doing things mostly the same way and not exploring all the possibilities. This one gave me inspiration to start warping the shit out of things ;D thanks!
Thank you. 🙏
Best explanation I've seen of a commonly misunderstood aspect of Live.
Sweet baby jeebus, that transient envelope setting in Beats Mode is amazing! How did I miss that? Thanks man
Using to clean drum break hits is absolutly life changing as a beat maker
Thanks for taking the time to explain this dude.
Awesome vid.....and dam, i've been a warping amateur using complex all the time. Great help, thanks for sharing your wisdom!!
Another qualiteh tut, thumbs up (also guilty of using complex too many times cause I didn't fully understand beats, thank you sensei)
Great tutorial, the best on the subject I've seen. Keep it up!
Hey Slynk, very nice tutorial but you have mistaken the definition of tones and texture algorithms. You basically swapped them :) To clarify a bit: ''tones'' works best with monophonic sounds (i.e bass, vocals, leads) and ''texture'' works best with polyphonic content (i.e pads, ambiences or drones). All the rest is very good, thanks for going deep in explaining algorithms, especially with the visual demonstration you did with the audio clip! Cheers
A great option a bit out of warp (for short loops) is slicing to midi and changing the tempo. works on a lot of cases :)
Hello Slynk! Thank for video, did you know maybee in 2023 world have any plugins with LIVE warp/time stretch algorithms(like Zynaptiq Wormhole). I think will be great play on synth and hear instantly stretching sound in time.
I like using complex pro for stuff like pitched vocals. I find that beats works great for timing och complex pro for pitch transformations :)
Maaan your sound is so clean I'm jelly.
Awesome video! Perfect explanation and fun too. Thanks man!
Amazing video, thanks Evan! Keep it up :)
Oi its slynko dynko. Great video
Shoutout to the guy who made this video. I have zero usage for this knolage as I don't use Ableton or make music or edit audio in any way but you did a great job explaining everything in great detail. Also your glasses are rad as fuck
thanks man! exactly what I needed.
your channel is awesome, great explaining. Thanx so much and keep up the good work!
Awesome video man. Thanks for the walk through! Liked, commented and subbed!
this is a top notch tutorial
i've been using cubase 8 pro for a while now and i'm seeing some major differences in what each can do well
and for the guitar timing, cubase has an incredibly intuitive iterative quantize mode that basically does all the manual work for you without destroying the sound too much
i love ableton's fx chain and the sampler but in terms of convenience, it falls a bit short
also, i really hope i could solo and arm tracks with my keyboard instead of having to do everything with my mouse :(
great info, i've been producing for a while now, and i'm learning a lot of new things here
Just discovered your channel.... Your videos are excellent!!! Thanks for your time and effort! [SUBSCRIBED]
Amazing video Slynk, like everything you do!, thanks!
Really informative video man. Thank you 🙏. BUT, your mouse placement on your mouse pad is making me extremely anxious 😂
Great tutorial as always. Could you just elaborate a bit more on the difference between the gray pseudo markers and the yellow markers?
There is really no difference between them in terms of how they affect the sound when warping. The grey sudo transient markers have been automatically created by Ableton after importing the audio file. It's a convenience thing. However, moving a grey marker and clicking in into a grid line will affect position of all previous and following grey markers to proportionally match the change you made. The yellow markers will never move if you move other markers near it so they are like anchored in a fixed position.
So, for example, if i'm warping a long audio file, I like to set a yellow marker at the beginning and the end to start with, then I'll set a marker at the half way point and then at the half way point of the half way point and so on until I have framed each whole beat division with a yellow marker before getting down to the nitty gritty. If I don't do this and start setting my sudo transient markers to the closest grid line from beginning to end, I might find out that the rest of the clip has suffered so many tempo changes that I've completely lost track of the intended timing of the audio clip.
I may do another video where I warp an acapella. These are especially hard because sometimes it's hard to tell where the start and end position is. There a re a few tricks to make it easier that I didn't explain in this video. 20min long, kinda ran out of time haha!
Probably more info than you really need but I hope that helps.
wow ur so fun and friendly
If you only need a couple warp markers to bring the audio to the correct timing, would this also preserve the audio quality more? The less warp markers the better?
Could you share the link to the Complex documentation you showed in the video?
reaaally awesome explanation
Excellent explanation! Thorough and entertaining. Subbed 👍😉
INTRO = 🔥
Excellent tutorial. Really explained a lot. Thank you! :)
You're a G. Thanks for the knowledge
Nice tutorial!
I bought an APC40 MKII midi controller some time ago, and wanted to be able to record and loop my guitar without touching Ableton (my computer), and I think a need a footswitch to do that. Really I don’t know if I need this to do it, and if I do, wich footswich should I buy? Just a regular amazon footswitch or a special one for this midi controller? And if I buy one, could I use like a sustain pedal also? Sorry, but I don’t understand much about midi controller’s and the general things I should know.
Thanks for the dope tutorial Slynk
My pleasure Keith!
Hey, which key command do you use to cut audio files like at the minutes 4:18? Thanks.
Ctrl + e. Also, hold alt to click a position off grid. ;)
I'm interested to see what Magix does with Acid Pro since they bought the software rights. Acid would have been one of the go to daw's today if Sony would have a had any type of vision.
Man, genius tutorial easy and efficient
this guy's mouse skills are next level
Great job! Learned so much 👍
Thanks for this very informative demo. Seems like only "beats" is artifact-free but I'm not sure how well that would apply to less "beat-y" stuff. I feel like Logic Pro is still the only DAW whose tempo-fitting time-stretching doesn't introduce artifacts for complex material. Has anyone found anything better yet?
Every kind of time stretching is distructive or sound altering in some way. I know Serato makes a pretty epic time stretching plugin.
Really good video! Thanks for the time and effort!
Thanks a lot! Especially for the shift marker move thing. AWESOME! ;)
hey slynk if you warping a whole track with to new bpm and you also want to raise the pitch, to me it sounds best on re-pitch because as you raise the tempo the pitch naturally changes too however I'm not sure its tuned to whatever new pitch its in what I'm asking is.. does transposing semitones keep it in tune with the key its in? and re pitch can make it out of tune? I've tried to tune it using tuner while adjusting the bpm while its on re-pitch but it doesn't read what notes its hitting.
How do you make those "cuts" in beats mode? I can't figure out what key your tapping to make that happen, and the manual doesn't mention this..
Really interesting thanks! You the man!
You exactly teach things that nobody explains but are super important. and also things I'm really curious about. you'er the best Ableton Tutor.
Thanks man. I'm glad you like the videos :)
Loved this one. Brilliant.
Thanks a lot for this! You’re a star.
So, for Warping a song performed by live musicians, what’s best for speeding up?
Would you Warp individual tracks or the whole song for the most natural sounding results? Following these advice, Complex Pro would loose some high end, but would you ever use Beats mode for vocals? Seeing that it’s the least intrusive it makes sense, but I’m confused now... I really thought Complex Pro was the shizznit..
amazing video . got lots of info. i will subscribe thanks.
dope video can you do lo fi down tempo tutorial love your tutorials very helpful
Quick Q:
If you are doing a remix, have the stems of the track, and intend to increase the tempo by about 10bpm, what would your process be?
Would you chop up all sections you intend to use, and then warp accordingly first - OR - would you apply a 'good-enough' warp mode on everything, adjust tempo, and then only adjust/re-warp all the sections that were actually used in the final version of your track?
hey what are the wonkiest dilla beats, tryna parse out all his work
Right on man, thanks for the class slynk, seriously helped thank you..
Thank you very much
This is gold, thank you!
dayum, i didnt know where ableton get this alg.! nice bro
finally i know what complex pro does.. (e.g. envelope)
Super helpful. Thanks!
Great video!
Great info, thanks man!
can you stretch "music" so it sounds like "muuusic", and still make it sound natural? which software is best for this?
You can use serato sample. I actually have a video coming out about extreme time stretching next week :)
thanks man still helping me out
Great video man! now time to get to work :)
will there be a feedback Friday this week?
Very helpful video.
fANTASTIC LESSON, THANKS MUCH MY FRIEND!
hi can you help me somone i have project i need to finish fast i recently bought ableton intro 10 and thers no complex pro on audio. only beats tones textur and repitch . i tried everything still sound robotic
Thank you, Slynk!
Thanks, I always wondered about this.
Great vid! Learned a lot, thanks