- In this video, I'm gonna show you
how you can transpose audio within Ableton Live
so you can change the key of any song within seconds.
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Let's dive behind my computer
and I'll show you how to transpose audio
within Ableton Live.
So here I have an individual song session pulled up
in Ableton Live, this is in arrangement view,
this is how I build all of my Ableton Live projects
for running tracks in worship.
Down here I have all of the audio files
for the multi-tracks for the songs
to run those backing tracks,
and then up here I also have
the original MP3 file of the song.
So Ableton Live makes it really easy
to transpose audio in just a few seconds,
so go ahead and you're gonna select a clip
and then actually double click it,
that's gonna bring up clip view down here.
This is where all the transposing magic is going to happen.
But we want to transpose all of the applicable audio files
for this song.
So what I'm gonna do is hold down shift
and then click down here,
it's gonna select all of my backing track audio files.
I'm gonna hold down the command button
and select the Grateful original MP3 file right here.
And then I also like to deselect the drum kit,
because we don't need to transpose percussive tracks
like drums or any other percussion-like instruments
you may have in your multi-track.
And now the clip view settings we have here
are for all of the clips we have selected.
The first thing you wanna do is make sure
that this warp button is enabled, so it's yellow.
You also want this to be grayed out and on slave mode.
Having these settings this way is gonna allow you
to transpose these audio files
without altering the tempo of the file.
Without doing that,
you're gonna have a lot of funky things going on here.
We want the song to stay in the tempo of 92.5.
And then down here in this field,
you need to select the correct warp mode
within Ableton Live.
You do not want to use beats mode.
This is more ideal for percussive audio files.
I recommend using complex or complex pro.
These are the most advanced warp modes
that the Ableton Live has built into it,
there's a minimal difference between these two.
Complex pro is maybe a little bit better,
sucks up a little bit more processing power.
In my experience either one of these two
will work just fine.
So I'm gonna select complex pro,
and then here under this transpose knob,
I'm gonna select how many semi-tones
I want to go up or down.
So let's pretend we want to transpose up a whole step.
This song is originally in the key of A,
here's what that sounds like.
("Grateful" by Elevation Worship)
So I'm gonna go ahead and transpose it up a whole step
to the key of B, so B is two semi-tones up from A,
so I'm gonna put two right here
so notice how the audio has transposed
but it still retains that quality sound,
that's because I have it in complex pro mode.
I wanna show you though what it sounds like in beats mode.
You'll notice it just sounds choppier
and not nearly as good as complex or complex pro.
So to recap what we've learned,
you select the audio clips you want to transpose,
make sure warp is enabled down here in clip view,
and then make sure it says slave right here,
select complex or complex pro,
and then under the transpose knob
you can adjust how many semi-tones
you want to transpose up or down.
A quick note,
for those of you not using Ableton Live standard or suite,
maybe you're using intro or lite version of Ableton Live,
I would recommend using the tones warp mode.
One of the advanced features you get
in the Ableton Live standard and suite
is having the more complex warp modes that sound better
but the tones warp mode also sounds pretty good.
So that's just a quick tip for those of you
using Ableton Live intro.
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