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Creative warping

Creative warping - Ableton Live Tutorial

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Creative warping

- [Instructor] At this point I don't know what we'd do without the ability to time stretch or warp clips. For the most part we're focused on how easy it is to stretch a clip to another tempo without affecting the audio quality. But these same features can be used to mangle audio clips in interesting ways. Let's talk about how warping can be used to cause a sample to sound metallic or to glitch or distort. So I've got a single snare hit on this first track. Let me play that so you can hear it. (snare drum) Okay. So down here in the sample box the warp button is turned on, and right below that there's this parameter that says segment BPM. Now normally that's a guess at the tempo of the sample. But we can actually take that and arbitrarily increase or decrease that and cause the sample to contract or lengthen. So let's actually take that segment BPM and let's just push it to its maximum, and as I'm doing that notice that it's stretching the clip out, and I can go all the way up to 999…

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