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victoryaloy
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Exporting in Live

Post by victoryaloy » Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:06 pm

I've googled and found nothing.. and I know there are a lot of Ableton users here so maybe someone could help!

Is there anyway to export midi clips as audio?
I think it will take to much time to make an audio track for each individual track.


Thanks!

Edit: all midi clips at once! I tried selecting all but it only did one!

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Re: Exporting in Live

Post by dav.id » Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:09 pm

freeze your midi track and flatten it, I suggest that you always copy the track that you want to flatten, so you always have something to fall back on if shit goes wrong:)
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Re: Exporting in Live

Post by victoryaloy » Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:14 pm

So you have to flatten each track one at a time??

Edit: the reason I'm asking is because I want to take a set from Live 8 and load the audio files into a lite version.. but after all the tracks are sent to audio go back to the original midi on the main track!

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Re: Exporting in Live

Post by dav.id » Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:20 pm

victoryaloy wrote:So you have to flatten each track one at a time??

Edit: the reason I'm asking is because I want to take a set from Live 8 and load the audio files into a lite version.. but after all the tracks are sent to audio go back to the original midi on the main track!
why would you load it into a lite version:s????
and what's wrong with midi?

I don't know exactly what you mean and what your goal is?

and what do you mean with this?

ut after all the tracks are sent to audio go back to the original midi on the main track!

explain me a bit better and I can help:)
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Re: Exporting in Live

Post by symmetricalsounds » Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:22 pm

why not render as stems?

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Re: Exporting in Live

Post by victoryaloy » Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:25 pm

I'm workin on a project w/ my friend.. he has Live 8.. I have Live APC40 edition.. I want to be able to take clips from his and load them on mine.. and on mine it only allows 2 plugins per track(i think) and several of our tracks have multiple plugins.. so I figured just bounce them to audio then I could load them up in mine.. And after its all said and done get his tracks back to midi.. so probably just undoing could do that!

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Re: Exporting in Live

Post by victoryaloy » Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:28 pm

symmetricalsounds wrote:why not render as stems?

how would you go about doing that from clip view?

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Re: Exporting in Live

Post by SHATTA » Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:28 pm

victoryaloy wrote:I've googled and found nothing.. and I know there are a lot of Ableton users here so maybe someone could help!

Is there anyway to export midi clips as audio?
I think it will take to much time to make an audio track for each individual track.


Thanks!

Edit: all midi clips at once! I tried selecting all but it only did one!

Im not saying this is the way you should do it.... just thought I would point out.... SOMETIMES PRODUCING MUSIC TAKES A GOOD AMOUNT OF TIME.

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Re: Exporting in Live

Post by symmetricalsounds » Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:56 pm

victoryaloy wrote:
symmetricalsounds wrote:why not render as stems?

how would you go about doing that from clip view?
quick record off to session view and do it from there i reckon.

also when you were saying about freezing tracks earlier, you can select all and then freeze+flatten so you don't need to do them individually.

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Re: Exporting in Live

Post by victoryaloy » Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:33 pm

symmetricalsounds wrote:
victoryaloy wrote:
symmetricalsounds wrote:why not render as stems?

how would you go about doing that from clip view?
quick record off to session view and do it from there i reckon.

also when you were saying about freezing tracks earlier, you can select all and then freeze+flatten so you don't need to do them individually.

Nice.. Before I was clicking on a occupied cell then selecting all(and that would only do the cell i clicked on.. not all the ones selected).. but if I first click a blank cell it works

I did notice that I now have both 15sec and 7 sec clips of everything.. why both?

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Re: Exporting in Live

Post by contakt321 » Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:12 pm

I think you can drag a midi clip right out of Ableton onto your desktop. Otherwise, try right clicking the clip, or look in the export menu. You can definitely do it at least 1 of these 3 ways, I can't remember which but I have done it before.

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Re: Exporting in Live

Post by abZ » Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:52 pm

symmetricalsounds wrote:why not render as stems?
? Not helpful.

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Re: Exporting in Live

Post by symmetricalsounds » Wed Jul 14, 2010 2:21 pm

abZ wrote:
symmetricalsounds wrote:why not render as stems?
? Not helpful.
not sure i get your comment, are you saying it's not helpful because you don't know how to do this or something else?

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Re: Exporting in Live

Post by abZ » Wed Jul 14, 2010 3:21 pm

symmetricalsounds wrote:
abZ wrote:
symmetricalsounds wrote:why not render as stems?
? Not helpful.
not sure i get your comment, are you saying it's not helpful because you don't know how to do this or something else?
Well there is no automated way of doing that, or is there? There should be IMO.

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Re: Exporting in Live

Post by contakt321 » Wed Jul 14, 2010 3:23 pm

abZ wrote: Well there is no automated way of doing that, or is there? There should be IMO.
There is. When you are exporting in the pop up menu, there is a pull down bar, you select Master, or individual tracks, etc.

RTFM :D

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Re: Exporting in Live

Post by abZ » Wed Jul 14, 2010 3:29 pm

contakt321 wrote:
abZ wrote: Well there is no automated way of doing that, or is there? There should be IMO.
There is. When you are exporting in the pop up menu, there is a pull down bar, you select Master, or individual tracks, etc.

RTFM :D
Read? Are you serious? Never read a manual in my life lol. This is helpful tho ;)

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Re: Exporting in Live

Post by contakt321 » Wed Jul 14, 2010 3:31 pm

PS: There is an option to do all stems at once too. Just be aware thats a big ass folder if you do 10-20 stems of a 5-6 minute song.

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Re: Exporting in Live

Post by abZ » Wed Jul 14, 2010 3:39 pm

I was just doing it by soloing each track and rendering. And like you say I would eliminate dead air and redundancy to keep the file size down but I am often reluctant to do it because I feel like there are better things I could be doing with my time. The extra size of the file might be worth it in the name of laziness.

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Re: Exporting in Live

Post by contakt321 » Wed Jul 14, 2010 4:16 pm

abZ wrote:I was just doing it by soloing each track and rendering. And like you say I would eliminate dead air and redundancy to keep the file size down but I am often reluctant to do it because I feel like there are better things I could be doing with my time. The extra size of the file might be worth it in the name of laziness.
I am in 100% agreement. I too am lazy.

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Re: Exporting in Live

Post by gnome » Wed Jul 14, 2010 4:43 pm

contakt321 wrote:PS: There is an option to do all stems at once too. Just be aware thats a big ass folder if you do 10-20 stems of a 5-6 minute song.
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