fastest way to normalize recorded audio in live?

hi,

i can't figure this out, and it's annoying me:

i recorded a bit of audio in ableton live. it's a few dB short, and i'd like to normalize it. in cubase, i'd just right click on the audio and say normalize, but that option doesn't seem to be there.

what's the shortest path?

thanks!

  On 6/30/2010 at 5:41 PM, hahathhat said:

hi,

 

i can't figure this out, and it's annoying me:

 

i recorded a bit of audio in ableton live. it's a few dB short, and i'd like to normalize it. in cubase, i'd just right click on the audio and say normalize, but that option doesn't seem to be there.

 

what's the shortest path?

 

thanks!

set "default sample editor" to audacity and normalize there? :P

Not sure really. maybe just bump up the gain in the sample settings.

I really don't know shit about crap though

file -> export audio/video -> normalize: on

bah, both of those are much more annoying than cubase's way... oh well. thanks.

bumping up the gain is doing manually what a computer does quite well automagically...

i knew about the sample editor thing, but i really prefer to stay within an amp...

exporting is simply annoying.

i'm stuck with live for a bit since i've had some bad luck with teh computers as of late, and cubase runs like turd on my laptop... while live runs great. i'll give it that.

Ableton normalizes when it consolidates audio, but it compensates by bringing the clip volume back down.

So, in the arrange window,

1.) right-click ---> Consolidate.

2.) reset the clip volume to 0 db, and you've got a normalized piece of audio.

or, ctrl-j

  On 7/1/2010 at 7:54 PM, zephyr said:

Ableton normalizes when it consolidates audio, but it compensates by bringing the clip volume back down.

 

So, in the arrange window,

 

1.) right-click ---> Consolidate.

 

2.) reset the clip volume to 0 db, and you've got a normalized piece of audio.

cool, did not know that. thanks.

  On 7/1/2010 at 7:54 PM, zephyr said:

Ableton normalizes when it consolidates audio, but it compensates by bringing the clip volume back down.

 

So, in the arrange window,

 

1.) right-click ---> Consolidate.

 

2.) reset the clip volume to 0 db, and you've got a normalized piece of audio.

yes, that sounds nice. thank you very much.

No prob'm.

what he said. control-j all day. all the keyboard shortcuts make things a lot easier too-- worth a looking up