It’s important to understand that the Warp Markers are not only moving transients around to change the timing, in fact they are fixing a specific part of the audio to a specific point on the clip’s timeline. You’ll see the transients move forward or backward (probably only slightly) to reflect the timing change that was made. To see what change was made to any area by Live’s Auto-Warping, simply select one warp marker and delete it. If you zoom in a little you can inspect the transients further. Often (but not always) these indicate drum hits, such as that kick and snare drum that we want to get under control. However, there will be plenty of opportunities later to fix timing while retaining groove, so now for the purpose of demonstration let’s assume we want the important drum hits such as the kick and snare drums to land on the grid.Įach yellow Warp Marker indicates that a timing change has been made, usually to a transient… that is, a part of the audio that is evidently louder than the parts of the waveform before and after it. Of course, as we often discover in our classes, ‘perfect’ or precision timing of every drum hit can sound robotic, and often the magical, intangible element of ‘groove’ in a great track is characterised by shifting drums on and off the grid throughout. Thus, its timing is human, real, natural, or however you’d like to describe the fact that it is imperfect, if we are to measure perfect timing by the beat grid.
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In this case I imported “Let’s Dance” by David Bowie, a track recorded to tape with a real drummer, well before it was commonplace to use computers and software to record or arrange. Should you like to change your preferences (and I’d recommend turning off auto-warping to test your skills once you become more confident), simply choose Preferences from the Live menu at the top left of your screen, or use the shortcut (command and comma). Inside the Sample Editor you will see a waveform, and, if your Live Preferences are set to “Auto Warp Long Samples” you will most likely see a bunch of little yellow squares above the waveform called Warp Markers. You can double-click on that clip to reveal the Clip View and Sample Editor.
When you drag and drop a piece of audio onto an empty clip slot, it becomes a clip. But for now, let’s get started with the basics. This allows us to alter the ‘natural’ timing of a live recording, to fix (repair) timing mistakes, or to get creative and crazy with timing experiments. Warping, or time-stretching, is the practice of fixing (as in pinning, rather than repairing) the timing of a song to a chosen beat grid, or to the timing characteristics of another song.
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