By: Noob

Noob — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 03:34:36 +0000

Thanks heaps! I’m learning Ableton bit by bit now. Very nice website, by the way.

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:22:42 +0000

Yes of course. In Session View double click the Clip to load it in the viewer below and change the Length parameter. Here's an image showing you how: click here. In Arrangement View hover your mouse pointer on the right edge of a clip and it changes into a bracket. Simply then click and drag right. Screenshot here: click here. I hope that helps.

By: aboabo

aboabo — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:46:28 +0000

Is it somehow possible to stretch entire midi clips, not just notes? I really need that kind of function. I know you can do this in Logic 8, but I do not own logic, and I need to save that stretched thing.

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:24:42 +0000

Hi NativeOps. Do you mean you want to Quantize the input as it’s recording or something else?

By: NativeOps

NativeOps — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:00:29 +0000

oh man, thanx for this tip. i completely over looked it in the ableton manual. I think this feature deserves more attention. even though it can’t be used in an actual live performance, as far as i understand, this feature is very useful. I almost sent a request email to ableton for a midi time stretch feature until i found it here on wire to the ear.
I used to use Cubase, and midi time stretch was a feature i used quite often. Especially if your the type of producer who likes to write songs without a click track (metronome).
if you load a drum kit or synth on a midi track, disable the metronome, hit record, and forget the fact that your even recording at all, you can freely bang out beats all day without feeling like imitating a robotic beat, and also never worry about recording too much data since MIDI takes up no less space on hard drives than text files. when you feel like you’ve played a few good bars, and they sound good to the ear, just select the down beat, and the first down beat after the last bar, then right-click and select stretch midi notes, the markers pop up, and with a lil adjustment, whalah! A perfect loop without using click tracks. One down side to recording this way is that you can’t set the tempo of the track to the tempo you had in your head when the sequence was originally recorded. But a quick tip is to tap the “tap tempo” button a couple times before you start, which gets the tempo close enough to the one in your head so there is barely a noticeable tempo change after the midi is stretched. Maybe I should send Ableton an email request to be able to lock the midi in place, and set the tempo to the midi. this would be another good shortcut they should add to their sequencer and i’m sure it wouldn’t be difficult for them to program. Maybe someone knows something i don’t about locking MIDI independent of the tempo so tempo adjustments dont affect the MIDI timing… And as far as using this for completely live performances is a-whole-nother work around.
But thanx Wire to the ear, nice tip.

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