Ableton Warp Modes: Digging Deeper

[@khalylehagood3222]

Another tip on warping: When you have a clip that's very messy and can't be auto-warped, try warping in larger resolutions and shrink until needed. I warped an old solo jazz guitar to the beat by making sure every 4- or sometimes even 8-bar phrase landed where it should, then doing adjustments within. It came in handy as the song had dramatic speed up and slow down embellishments within it and I was able to smash the whole thing down to a consistent bpm. By keeping the big picture and starting with broad strokes it's more like chipping away from marble than putting together a lego set. Also you preserve more of the tune's timing by theoretically warping less of it.

[@xyzyzx1253]

Jeremy! You’re actually a musical saint. Your knowledge and wisdom is such a gift. Honestly I think I’d watch hours and hours of your just touring how all the features of ableton can be used. Your style, approach, and choice of samples are all so cool, calm and enjoyable to watch! Learning my way round ableton with your advice is an absolute pleasure that I try and dedicate my time after work to :) Thanks for the exciting and relaxing time I get to take after working on deadlines absolutely ruins me 😅

[@mttlsa686]

To organize the different types of groove in folders go to the user library folder (the real folder not the one in the ableton live browser) open the groove folder and make your own organized folders inside of it. Start ableton live and you should see the folders in the browser.

[@MrNamaikisaru]

Warping the sequel did not disappoint! Thank you.

[@JeanPineau44]

A buddy and I are getting into music making with ableton, we're both beginners and currently getting to know the software. I wouldn't even have dared imagining audio quantization was a thing... Mind = blown. You probably just saved us hours worth of recording sessions !! Love all your other videos, thank you for all the great content and music sharing.

[@rylanscott410]

My favorite furry musician. Love all the stuff you do. Thank you for the hours upon hours of informative and entertaining videos.

[@Leviathan894]

As a beginner to all of this......this was gold, as was the primer to this. Thank you!

[@browe]

"That is BADASS!" Correct, sir. Correct. Also, your tips on using Sampler to create/export slices is a powerful way to create source material for Octatrack!

[@OscillatorSink]

I don't do Ableton, but this little series was still really interesting and gave me some stuff to think about, thanks Papa Jeremy.

[@joshualotz340]

Thanks ❤ This was exactly the tutorial I was looking for! Spent hours trying to figure this out 😅

[@MyriadDubstep]

Great video Jeremy, keep this series going if you can. Once you get all the way done with warp modes maybe you can move on to a different feature in ableton and do a deep dive on that as well. The way you teach us is great.

[@L.O.V.D]

This is soo useful and rarely talked about!! Thank u soo much!

[@isaacanthonydj4124]

DUDE, amazing. I've spent the past week trying to warp vocals, it's like we're on the same frequency, man. LoL, Good one Jeremy, thanks!

[@isaacanthonydj4124]

My next task with Octatrack is to figure out PARTS and putting some crazy quantize onna loop, is def a easy secondary part. i'm working on getting audio warped for octatrack days worth of songs to go thru.

[@isaacanthonydj4124]

if you know the BPM of the song you're warping, and have labeled that down in the area where that goes, ableton seems to have better luck with warping properly...

[@isaacanthonydj4124]

so instead of ableton asking if you wanted to warp the song at the current BPM, put it at that song BPM and ableton will ask if you want to warp it at that BPM, YES SIR!

[@isaacanthonydj4124]

every song i'm warping, i have labeled the BPM and KEY of the song, so when it goes in octatrack, it should all be cake! LoL

[@isaacanthonydj4124]

PER WARP MARKER!!! Fuck yeah!

[@nsjx]

This was a great refresher for me! Thanks Warping is indeed powerful for design. I actually didn't know about 'crop sample' doing that in Sampler. Big tip 🤜 One thing about those different grooves is that the groove templates also at times affect Velocity of the individual hits. And yes that triplet groove was awesome on that break 👏

[@zayleajennifer6042]

Thanks for explaining the Groove Pool! Really helpful video all around. Cheers!

[@yRocismynamebackwards]

Dude! The cropping samples in sampler! Where has that been all my life lol. You the master!

[@tuppawareAU]

Always great at explaining stuff in your videos Jeremy, even taking away stuff that I didn't know as an intermediate user.

[@dreamalchemymedia]

dude thank you so much for these tutorials. i've spent so much time in the last two years with my head buried in ableton but still feel like such a little ableton toddler

[@bluestone9726]

Never cared to use the warp before but that was mostly because I never got how it worked. This video changed that and I really appreciate it!

[@Process136]

Love a good warp!

[@elifan2523]

Thank you very much!! Been an Ableton user for a long time and this was an real eye opener

[@bangersandmashism]

Regarding the part where you were saying you would need to go through the long sample that wasnt working and place markers throughout; i find it's usually easier to just turn warp mode off and drag the transpose cents value to match it to the metronome like a DJ beatmatching. If you find it tricky ou can look at the waveforms and place downbeats on the grid. Once the track is in time you can then put warp mode back on if you need to do any fine tuning.

[@oscaralonsorojas]

Thank you for this series!

[@Hell_Inc]

you’re a genius, Jeremy

[@DJSoSadRN]

Thank you so much. These videos on warping have been incredibly helpful.

[@chrisj5547]

As with all of your educational content this is so so helpful. Thank you!

[@mkkrt]

Ooh, classic breaks!

[@VEsound]

I never investigated the groove feature of Ableton Live even if I started on its 5th version a long time ago so thanks for the tutorial Jeremy; ;)

[@54LZ]

And I thought I knew already a lot about sampling with Ableton's tools.

[@tatodlp]

Great demonstration, thanks!

[@khalylehagood3222]

At 9:00 you answer a questions ive always had but never investigated: does groove pool swing audio even though theres little-to-no warp markers? Seems the answer is yes, which is very useful.

[@RedMeansRecording]

It needs transient markers

[@khalylehagood3222]

@@RedMeansRecording Is there a minimal amount, like 2? It appears as though the swing is more granular than the warp markers in this section, swinging the 16th's when the markers are measures. Feel free to not answer since I could always test this when I get off work.

[@mmckmusic]

Such good information and presentation.

[@danielpirone8028]

Thank you!

[@roarimatrex]

when warping long clips and trying to figure out the right tempo i prefer moving markers at 1, 4 or 8 bars, it gets soooo much easier than trying with the offbeat, it seems so painful

[@iamsushi1056]

It’s fun to warp, especially with weird swings, then resample it and set it to repitch warp, and warp it back to a straight beat with that. I’ve actually generated whole melodies this way.

[@crowsynth]

Great content! Thanks!

[@laggEcss]

This is amazing, thank you so much!

[@standudinski]

"imma run a train on ya" rings differently now

[@ChumpyDumps]

Good shit, as always

[@pispalantimbaland]

Wow. I wish I had something clever to say, but all I say is thak you. And wow.

[@djtitan]

Amazing video! Thank you for your knowledge. I love how much fun you’re having during the process. VIP

[@jaygregory8219]

Hella helpful, thanks!!

[@sambeard4428]

Hey Jeremy, I have a question regarding the quantization parameterization. I have this on my model:cycles as well and I don't really fully understand what it does. I mean a value of 100% (or 127 for the M:C) is clearly that everything is fully quantized and 0 doesn't do a thing however, what does the values in between do? Does it scale it linearly ? Meaning that for a value of 50% everything is right in between the original and the 'perfect' timing? Or does it scale it by a fixed amount, up to the point where it aligns with the grid? And why would you want such an in-between setting anyway? What does it do rhythmically? Thanks! Great video as always btw ;-)

[@macaronafterparty]

Fml? U aight?

[@ReegusReever]

Dave.

[@niallkelly1577]

Did you know you are great?

[@niallkelly1577]

Because you are great 🎊

[@f_stop]

I got the cheeba!

[@f_stop]

Oh man, Tontomation too. Double bangers in this video.

[@RedMeansRecording]

Cheeba cheeba

[@f_stop]

@@RedMeansRecording I can dig it.