Ableton 8 - beat warping

Is it me or is the beat warping in Ableton 8 a bit shit now or am I suppose to configue it so it works like how it did on previous versions?

how did it work on previous versions?

I use beat warping all the time in Live8, same or better than 7 imo. What's your issue?

It's better than it used to be, much more intuitive i think.

  On 11/10/2010 at 2:26 AM, hautlle said:

I use beat warping all the time in Live8, same or better than 7 imo. What's your issue?

I'll explain in a bit more detail when I next load it up. Essentially it doesn't appear to work the way it does on Ableton 5 which is what I've been using and its very frustrating!

  On 11/10/2010 at 3:27 AM, Promo said:

  On 11/10/2010 at 2:26 AM, hautlle said:

I use beat warping all the time in Live8, same or better than 7 imo. What's your issue?

I'll explain in a bit more detail when I next load it up. Essentially it doesn't appear to work the way it does on Ableton 5 which is what I've been using and its very frustrating!

Werd, hit me up with them details son!

ya dude, they changed it up for live 8. before what you did was you moved the musical grid, for example if you had a drum loop you moved where beat 4 is supposed to be to line up with the audio hit which was always stationary. now you move the audio hit to line up with the stationary grid. what you are left with is something that is a little more uniform, the visual distance between two musical values is the same visual distance as a different two values of equal length. make sense?

read up on it in the manual, once you get it you will be like...ohhh shit yea that makes way more sense.

  On 11/10/2010 at 5:30 AM, ryanmcallister said:

ya dude, they changed it up for live 8. before what you did was you moved the musical grid, for example if you had a drum loop you moved where beat 4 is supposed to be to line up with the audio hit which was always stationary. now you move the audio hit to line up with the stationary grid. what you are left with is something that is a little more uniform, the visual distance between two musical values is the same visual distance as a different two values of equal length. make sense?

 

read up on it in the manual, once you get it you will be like...ohhh shit yea that makes way more sense.

Ryan is correct here. Wanted to also mention that now if you hold down shift (i believe) and drag a warp marker, it will adjust the waveform under it like the classic style. This will allow you to do the typical "set a marker on the first and last beat" technique.

it's way better than ever before IMO

Thanks guys I'll load it tomorrow and give it a shot!

This sounds a lot better... it always felt so counterintuitive to be moving uniform beats on the grid around :/