Resolume software with slots for visual effects and video can be sync on the beat with the audio (from a video) using Ableton 12 (with Ableton Link). What I noticed is that video has a fixed time base (30 Fps). So 10 minutes video has 10 minutes audio in msec. locked ( lip sync) to the video. But the tempo from the audio is all over the place. With Cubase 13 we can get the tempo information easy. It is analyse the video to get the tempo track. Then generate midi click track and audio click track. Import the video , midi, and audio click track in Ableton . This will generate the tempo track and selecting Warp (option choose LEAD) on the audio click track we see all the warp markers. Feed Ableton Link to Resolume and visual effects will follow the beat.
I have found that using the Click track as the Tempo track for songs that have tempo changes works best. I bring the Clip gain for the Click track all the way down so there isn't anything over playing.
So I've been playing with a band that practices in the box through monitors. Their songs are good but they tempo map the songs with a slightly faster choruses, slower bridges, etc.. I've never heard of anyone doing this and it makes no sense to me to have to go 200bpm verse to a 213bpm chorus to compensate for natural time, without a click. Why even map it in the first place? It's really difficult for me to adjust that much accurately. Am I missing something and is this normal? To me it feels like they are hard wiring in mistakes lol
Hi Will, thank you very much for these free masterclass, they're really game changers. I have just a question, is there a way to import from a clip the time signature changes along with tempo changes? I haven't found anything except for an old comment that said that it was impossible... When importing a formatted song into a live set, do you manually edit the time signature changes to reallign the grid?
Thanks for watching! No way to export time signature changes from Ableton to re-import. It is possible to import time signature change clips from logic and import into Ableton. Yes, I manually add them in-doesn't take long at all.
you can add tempo changes per scene, and you can try to automate via IAC driver, but your best bet and fastest approach is to press tab and use arrangement view :)
@@fromstudiotostage Haha. I personally don't like Arrangement View for playing backing tracks for various reasons but especially because it doesn't look as "clean" as Session View, it looks like a mess especially when you have so many songs in one single Set Live, which is the case for me because sometimes we need to play a song that wasn't originally on the set list. And regarding the tempo change, I meant a gradual tempo change. I found a way to do it by automating the global tempo with an envelope but Ableton asks me to assign a minimum and maximum tempo, so it's not that useful for me since it affects the next songs in the setlist, I have to press play twice and that's a bummer. I recently found a Max For Live device that it seems to do it without automating the global tempo which is useful for me. Thanks anyway for the response.
Dragging warp markers? This seems very laborious.! In Studio One you open Melodyne, confirm variable tempo. Drag audio track to tempo track and... that's it. Nothing more to do. ua-cam.com/video/xuQk8-chCyw/v-deo.html
interesting, but it's an insane amount of wasted time just to perform a basic function that should exist inside ableton. not to say their midi export is the worst
Resolume software with slots for visual effects and video can be sync on the beat with the audio (from a video) using Ableton 12 (with Ableton Link).
What I noticed is that video has a fixed time base (30 Fps). So 10 minutes video has 10 minutes audio in msec. locked ( lip sync) to the video. But the tempo from the audio is all over the place. With Cubase 13 we can get the tempo information easy. It is analyse the video to get the tempo track. Then generate midi click track and audio click track. Import the video , midi, and audio click track in Ableton . This will generate the tempo track and selecting Warp (option choose LEAD) on the audio click track we see all the warp markers. Feed Ableton Link to Resolume and visual effects will follow the beat.
I have found that using the Click track as the Tempo track for songs that have tempo changes works best.
I bring the Clip gain for the Click track all the way down so there isn't anything over playing.
Yeah-tip #1 ( I personally deactivate the clip) but don’t miss tip #2. It’s a game changer for flexibility
How do you view master tempo in Ableton 12?!?!
So I've been playing with a band that practices in the box through monitors. Their songs are good but they tempo map the songs with a slightly faster choruses, slower bridges, etc.. I've never heard of anyone doing this and it makes no sense to me to have to go 200bpm verse to a 213bpm chorus to compensate for natural time, without a click. Why even map it in the first place? It's really difficult for me to adjust that much accurately. Am I missing something and is this normal? To me it feels like they are hard wiring in mistakes lol
Hi Will, thank you very much for these free masterclass, they're really game changers. I have just a question, is there a way to import from a clip the time signature changes along with tempo changes? I haven't found anything except for an old comment that said that it was impossible... When importing a formatted song into a live set, do you manually edit the time signature changes to reallign the grid?
Thanks for watching! No way to export time signature changes from Ableton to re-import. It is possible to import time signature change clips from logic and import into Ableton. Yes, I manually add them in-doesn't take long at all.
how can i make the same in session view?
you can add tempo changes per scene, and you can try to automate via IAC driver, but your best bet and fastest approach is to press tab and use arrangement view :)
@@fromstudiotostage Haha. I personally don't like Arrangement View for playing backing tracks for various reasons but especially because it doesn't look as "clean" as Session View, it looks like a mess especially when you have so many songs in one single Set Live, which is the case for me because sometimes we need to play a song that wasn't originally on the set list. And regarding the tempo change, I meant a gradual tempo change. I found a way to do it by automating the global tempo with an envelope but Ableton asks me to assign a minimum and maximum tempo, so it's not that useful for me since it affects the next songs in the setlist, I have to press play twice and that's a bummer. I recently found a Max For Live device that it seems to do it without automating the global tempo which is useful for me. Thanks anyway for the response.
Dragging warp markers? This seems very laborious.! In Studio One you open Melodyne, confirm variable tempo. Drag audio track to tempo track and... that's it. Nothing more to do.
ua-cam.com/video/xuQk8-chCyw/v-deo.html
interesting, but it's an insane amount of wasted time just to perform a basic function that should exist inside ableton. not to say their midi export is the worst