Ableton Live is specially designed for both recording sessions and live performances. The program is a popular choice for professional DJs around the world. Practice mixing music with Ableton Live by studying the software, and the warping and beat matching process.
Why Ableton Live?
Mixing opportunities are practically limitless. Ableton supports a wide variety of third party analog and digital processing plugins. Both the Session and Arrangement views give users an opportunity to quickly change their work station’s environment based on their particular mixing needs.
The auto-warping engine automatically scans all the tracks imported, which helps simplify the beat matching process. It is highly customizable, as users can adapt the warping manually.
Setting up the workstation
Create a folder with tracks that you would like to include in the mix. Normal mixes are typically one or two hours long, so 15 to 20 tracks should be enough. Browse the folder in Ableton Live, with track displayed in the sidebar on the right.
Create two audio channels and drag and drop the tracks into particular sections. Each channel should now consist of eight to ten tracks.
Warping the tracks
Make sure project tempo is at default value 120BPM.
Enable the metronome and play the first track. If the metronome is in sync with the beat of the track, then auto-warping is done correctly. If not, it has to be fixed manually.
Double click on a track. The track will now open in sample display. Set the first yellow marker on the first beat by right clicking and selecting ‘Set 1.1.1.here.’ Now right click on it and select ‘Warp straight from here.’
Now all of the markers should be in sync with the metronome. If they aren’t, manually adjust the position of them.
Repeat the warping process for all of the tracks you imported into both audio channels.
Mixing
The mixing process should be handled the same way it would in any program. Listen to the transitions. If they sound dull, make volume gain automation clips. In order to process the transitions further, use EQuing or other effects.
When all of the transitions sound smooth, export the final mix as a .wav or .aiff file format.
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