Hi!
I made a mixdown of my track in Akai Force in wav format. It plays OK on Macbook with iTunes player. Then I inserted that wav file into Ableton’s audio track clip (the file is around 65 Mb). I set correct BPM but my track sounds bad (artifacts). What could be the issue? I tried different latency settings - no change. I tried to move clip to arranger and play it in arranger mode - no luck - still artifacts like processor cannot keep up but my Macbook Air is M1 16GB RAM. I turned warping on/off - no luck. I’ll try to record video and add here so you can see what’s going on.
might be teaching grandma to suck eggs, but what happens if you click the “RAM” icon for the sample so it’s held in RAM instead of streaming from the disk?
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I’ll check on this, not at the computer right now.
Almost certainly to do with the warp setting on the file itself, altho you say you have turned this off? Maybe open a new session and import it there, turn warp off and see what it does. Shouldn’t be anything to do with latency, and setting the bpm of the session will have no effect on the file itself if you have warp switched off.
Other than that I’m out of ideas
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The issue is likely to do with this, as Live is probably warping the file. Unless the beginning of the clip is perfectly aligned it will cause issues. And even then, changing the BPM on the clip is likely to cause issues as it will warp the clip.
I would first ensure the BPM of the project is correct as per your file, then drag the file in and make sure the start point is perfectly aligned, with no dead air at the beginning or sounds spilling over. If there are any issues with the beginning of the file, crop them out.
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…sure ur overall file length is matching up with the inner bpm of ur mix…?
if not, u have to define the first bar in ur file, otherwise abelton has to guess…
if it’s not four to floor, with the most obvious pumping structure, it’s best guess ends up wrong in most cases…
so place a warper on ur first downbeat and it will guess right…if still off, type in the correct tempo again…
and always keep in mind, there are quite some different time stretch algos to choose from…
if u want a whole mix to sound as good as possible, choose elastique pro, or whatever ableton is calling their best realtime stretch algo…elastique pro is more a bitwig term, i’m afraid…
but no matter what, even warped at best, don’t expect ur whole mix to sound any better than without any liquid tempo options attached…the raw/all stretch off file will always sound best…
and a warped full mix file will only sound okish between 5% speed up or slowed down max anyways…anything beyond and the grains start to be audible…no matter what…
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Wasn’t there some major issue with one of the latest updates for Live 11.3, right after Ableton released Push 3? IIRC playback of longer WAV files could be glitchy because of some “improvements” to the warping algorithm (even with warping turned off afterwards). (Don’t remember the details, just saw Weaver Beats discussing it in one of his videos.)
@Novitchok Have you tried deactivating warp by default, emptying your temp folder and re-importing the file? What version are you on? Maybe give updating/downgrading a shot?
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Turn of warping for long audio files in your settings. Then import it to new project now nothing should affect the file.
Do you need it to be warped? If you for some reason do need that then use another algorithm than Beats
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Correct, I’ll add that nothing should be warped unless you really need to: warping introduces artifacts
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I don’t need it to be warped. that’s why I turned warping off but and with no warping the quality is still bad. I just need that long file to be in a clip and play normally but quality is bad. I need to make a video to show you.
Well, need to dig into this. I’d say you all try to do the same as me and report results here. Just drop big wav file (60-65Mb) to Audio Clip and play it.