Ableton question

I had to reinstall windows in my pc the other day due to some spyware and malware that i wanted to get rid off.
Had to reinstall ableton as well, but now, when i try and drop certain tracks into the window bit, ableton tells me that it cant decode the track using the current codecs.

It only happens with a few tracks, seems to be ones i have purchaced recently.

Any idea what is up?

Obviously i must be missing some codecs, but any idea where i can get them from? Seems wierd, ive never had to get codecs for ableton before....

I use ableton but have never experienced this. Sorry.

What are the files?

As in, what format?

They are mp3s.

I think you might be missing some codecs...

Speaking of Ableton, is there any way while in arrange view to see the vst effects of more than one channel? For example, I cant view filters or eq's from two or more tracks at once, each time I click on the track it replaces the vst effect with the current one.

Hey.

Think you have to have the 'Multiple Plug-in Windows' on in the Plug in Windows section.
Go to Look/Feel under preferences.

However, since the Ableton vsts don't have a pop out interface, they won't open up separately.

the closest you currently get is with live 8, which now offers grouping of channels, you can apply live filters/3rd party vsts etc to individual channels within a group, and, then apply more to the group as a whole...

beyond that, only external vsts will remain "open" when selecting another channel. good hint, use a dual monitor setup and always keep your 3rd party vsts open on the spare monitor - creating basic work flow between screens

Yeah I do this, but I still have the same problem.

Do you guys mind? Honestly.....

...sorry.

Did you check if you were missing any codecs then?

User error imo

To be quite honest, i wasnt aware ableton needed any codecs, and i have no idea how to find out if its missing any

just in case you werent aware... ableton doesnt run the MP3's as MP3's, it decodes them back to wave files, usually storing them in your application data folder in my docs on c drive.

i've seen that codecs problem once before myself, waaaaay back on version 5, by memory i canned that install location (shitty shuttle pc) and reinstalled onto a new comp that had a sound card properly working. also check your win media player is up to date

if it is codecs, there's a few community packs of codecs out there that are always useful for installing, start with VLC player too...

Thats a complete misuse of a Darth Vader helmet.

So.... Ableton.

Two things

• How the hell do I start editing MIDI from the arrangement view? I have been double clicking a channel in the session view to get the midi section down the bottom then tab-dragging to the arrangement view. Must be a better way?
  

• Does anyone have any good guides for warping. There is some stuff I just CAN NOT seem to get right. How do people approach this?
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Actually, I have warped piles of old tunes and have found a primo way to do it consistently.

Often you'll place a warp marker in the intro beats and you can see clearly where the beat is and pick your placement spot (as long as you're consistent it doesn't matter much whether you chose the first zero crossing or whatever)... but later on when the track is busier it's hard to see where that spot it - the waveform is muddied by bass, vocals etc etc.

My fix to this is to zoom in on one of the markers I placed in the intro and take a screen grab of it. Then crop the screen grab to the pic of the warp window only... then move the image so it overlays the warp window in Ableton perfectly... Now, whenever I am placing warp markers later on I can alt-tab between Ableton and the image and see where to place it perfectly - no matter how much the wave-form is muddied.

I've never seen anyone else do this but is a super fast and practical way to warp difficult tunes.

(Can post images if this explanation isn't easy to follow)

Also - when in doubt about a warp market placement, turn the metronome on and listen to it. Pretty obvious but you'd be surprised how few people check like this.

I've been trying to do Brigitte Bardot :: Contact.

Doing my head in!

Will try your method tonight, pretty sure I get it.

Here ya go.. I made an animated tutorial (albeit pretty badly - timing mite be a bit quick).

The point of it is that no matter how cluttered a wave-form becomes this method words as you can see how the wave-forms match and therefore find the accurate (or least consistent) placement of a warp marker.

Note: I use this for really old tracks which were all over the place in terms of tempo and 'business' and it always works.

Thanks!

This.