Composing and Producing Electronic Music

Hello all, I have been updating my course to Live 8 and the biggest improvement is with the warp engine and transient detection. Warping audio is now WAY easier.  This video appears in week 2 of my advanced course and goes into the new and improved way to warp your clips.

Here are the important points from the video:

• With the loop brace selected, use the up and down arrow keys to move the loop brace by the length of the loop brace itself.
• A transient is a moment where the volume of the sound changes dramatically and quickly. Like at the beginning of a drum hit.  Transients typically mark important musical events. Live detects them automatically.  Live’s transient detection is displayed as a downward facing grey triangle.
• Establish the first bar in your clip by adjusting the first hit then right clicking and choosing set 1.1.1 here.
• With “Follow” on the screen shifts to show the current play location.
• To quantize your audio, select all, right click and choose quantize settings.
• Choose the smallest subdivision used in your performance in the “Quantize To” dialog.
• Quantize to 80% to make it tight, but leave some natural human variation.
• Sometimes, Live mis-aligns the transient.  Use shift drag to fix those issues.

Have Fun. Make Music.

Loudon