- In this video you're gonna learn how to alter
the tempo of a song in Ableton Live using
the software's powerful warp mode settings.
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Here I have the song The Lion And The Lamb,
this is an individual song session in Ableton Live
arrangement view.
This is how I run all of my backing tracks
in a worship environment.
The first thing you're going to want to make sure you have
is a master tempo clip.
It's an audio clip that I have right here,
it's a blank audio clip, it produces no sound
and it's on audio track obviously because it's
an audio clip and what this is gonna do
is it's going to set the master tempo
of your Ableton Live project.
This comes in handy when you want to use Ableton Live's
built in metronome and you're gonna be
building Ableton Live song sets with multiple songs
at different tempos and you want the metronome to
follow along with the right tempo of a particular song.
So I created another video about the tempo clip
that gets a little bit more in depth to how it works
and if you do not have a tempo clip
and you don't know how to make one yourself
I created a free download for you.
The link for that is in the description of this video.
It's gonna be an Ableton Live project called
the tempo project.
And load that onto your hard drive and get that
into your file browser here and you see
I have mine right here, it's in my collection
of templates I use in Ableton Live.
I'm gonna drop down the folder, navigate all the way down
this file structure until you get to the audio clip
that you're gonna use as your tempo clip.
And I'm gonna pretend like we didn't have this here.
So I have a blank audio track right here,
I'm gonna select this audio file, drag it here,
and then I'm going to drag this to the end of the song.
Zoom in here real quick, line it up with the end
of the other tracks.
And now we have our tempo clip in place it's ready to go.
The next step is to make sure all of the audio clips
you want to alter have warp mode enabled in that
within warp mode they are in the slave setting.
To make sure you have those setting right
double click on one of the audio clips to bring up
the clip view down here.
And then make sure all of your audio clips have
warp mode enabled here, so warp is yellow
and then it has the slave button underneath
and that can be gray that means it's in slave mode.
So what you can do is go through and just
command click on all of the audio files that you want
to transpose and I have all of these already in the right
setting, if for some reason this button is half gray
and half yellow just click it a couple times
until it says warp and then same thing with this,
click it until it says slave.
And then down here select complex or complex pro
if you have Ableton Live Standard or Suite
or you can select the tones setting down here
if you're using Ableton Live Intro.
So now the tempo of these audio clips
are ready to be altered.
Next go ahead and select the temp clip up here
that's going to set the master tempo of the song.
In the setting down here you're gonna see segment BPM.
Go ahead and enter in the original tempo of the song.
For this song it was 90 beats per minute.
After you have the original tempo of the song
in place here go ahead to the slave button and click on it
and it's going to turn to master.
So what this means is that this clip is now going to
set the master tempo for Ableton Live.
It's not only going to alter the tempo of
these other audio clips that were in slave mode
but it's also going to alter the tempo
of Ableton Live's built in metronome.
So I'll play the song from the beginning so you can hear
what the original tempo sounds like at 90 beats per minute.
- [Program] One, two, one two three.
- And notice that Ableton Live's built in metronome
is at 90 beats per minute.
I could even add some eighth notes in there.
("The Lion And The Lamb" by Leeland)
So that's what it sounds like originally
now let's alter the tempo of the song.
Click on the master tempo clip to bring up clip view
down here and then what you're gonna do in segment BPM
is type in the desired tempo of the song.
So let's say we want this song at 100 beats per minute.
You'll notice just because I type it in it does not
yet change the tempo of this song.
What you need to do is toggle the master button.
So hit it once, turn it back on,
and now you'll see that Ableton Live's tempo did change
to 100 and it has the little red dot here
which I believe is just indicating that the tempo
was changed by our master tempo clip right here.
And if you didn't see that change happen go ahead and just
click anywhere in the scrub area to play the song
from somewhere else and usually this will change
if this is all set up right down here.
So now let's listen to the song at 100 beats per minute.
♪ He's coming on the clouds ♪
♪ Kings and kingdoms will bow down ♪
And I could go in here and type in whatever tempo I want.
Let's do something ridiculous like 200 beats per minute.
I'll toggle that again.
♪ Every chain will break as broken hearts declare His praise ♪
♪ Who can stop the Lord Almighty? ♪
♪ Our God is the lion, the lion of Judah ♪
It sounds ridiculous I don't know why you would ever
want to alter the tempo that much.
Let's slow the tempo down.
♪ He's roaring with power and fighting our battles ♪
♪ And every knee will bow before Him ♪
♪ Our God is ♪
That's incredibly painful.
Realistically, let's go back to our original tempo
here at 90.
Realistically you might just want to make
a slight adjustment to the tempo.
I personally prefer just doing them in the tempo
that they were recorded in, I'm not fussy like that
but let's say oh we want it in 92 beats per minute
or something like that, go ahead and put in the number,
toggle the master button there and now we're at 92.
♪ Every knee will bow before Him ♪
♪ Our God is ♪
So again I just want to reiterate
we have the master tempo clip selected
and then we're altering the segment BPM down here.
Make sure warp mode is on
and that the master button is enabled right here
and that all the other audio clips are in slave mode.
So that's how you alter the tempo of not only
the other audio files in an Ableton project
but also Ableton Live's built in metronome.
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