Getting Ableton Audio Clips into Octatrack

Elektron Gear Octatrack
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Hi,
I’m currently trying to get my loops from my Ableton sets into the Octatrack so I can remix the tracks I am making.

The problem I am having is when I am freezing the midi contents of a VST clip; the outputted file is 32 bit and not readable by the Octatrack.

Looking around, I cannot find anywhere where it is possible to amend the setting of the freeze and flatten parameters. This makes the process a bit of a pain in the arse. What I thought was possible was to drag the clip, once frozen and flattened, across into the CF card in the Finder window on my Mac. Worked a treat for everything other than the flattened audio.

How are others doing this?

Are you resampling from Ableton directly into the OT?

Are you resampling in Ableton(which I think allows you to set it to 24 bit) and then dragging into OT?

Are you opening the audio in some other application and then exporting as 24 bit?

These options seem really long winded and I’m really disappointed if these ways are the only possibility; the drag and drop route seemed a dream to me before I tried it. Bugger!

Ideas please.

Many thanks,
Adam

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I’m using this kind of soft
https://twistedwave.com/
You can do batch processing to modify all your 32bit file to 16bit file.

In my case i export my sound with the export fonction (shift+cmd+R) in 16bit44,1K for OT.

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Cheers dacoutu. That’s my after lunch project then.

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why not just solo the tracks u want and use bounce instead? gives you a choice of differnt formats…

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^
Right, or resample to another audio track in Live, which defaults to your Preferences > Record > Bit Depth preference, along with your project sample rate.