Dubspot Ableton Live Tutorial - How to Warp for Remixing w/ Laura Escudé

Ableton Certified Trainer and Dubspot Instructor Laura Escudé explains how to warp a song for remixing in Ableton Live 8. Using "Help I'm Alive" by Metric, Laura takes you step by step through the process of warping the stems of a song.

[PorkyG]

Couldn't give this tutorial enough thumbs up, this is what I've been looking to find out for awhile now.

[MrViewgo]

Amazing video. Laid out very simply with detailed instructions. These tips have already saved me hours of trying to manually warp bar by bar.

[letdown]

Great tutorial, just used this myself. Gotta love all the enthusiasm from Escude: "now...the remixing fun can start". 

[JetboyOZ]

@DubSpot you wouldn't believe how much I have learnt from your videos... Keep them coming!! :D

[tedhobgood]

Thank you SO much for posting this! This was EXACTLY what I needed to help me over my beatmatching problem, and you presented it WONDERFULLY, both visually and aurally. Thanks so much for producing such a crisp, helpful tutorial.

[rayaline]

Great Tutorial, much thanks for the helpful tutorials that have help me cross barriers that were hindering my work flow.

[Kkidzz]

Laura, you're officially in charge of all warping tutorials from here on out... ;)

[OscarInOrlando]

Awesome tutorial and nice demo at the end. Thank you for sharing.

[JacLydeOfficial]

Simple, straight-forward tips. Awesome.

[AnonymousAZ]

Thank you, oh god, thank you.  trying to do a cover song to fit to this.  I couldn't find anything, till i typed making a song fit with an acapella.... even though it's recorded to vocals.

you saved me a shit ton of time, thanks.

[Thebservr]

Thank you! I'd love to understand way better the different warping modes!

[Mm]

haha thanks, I didn't know about tapping session view and it was driving me nuts. Always used an external metronome to tap... ;D

[MariusCapmare]

Awesome tutorial. How'd you manage to get the Help I'm Alive tracks? I've been looking for the acapella for a remix for ages...

[DJAnointed]

where did the 6 stems come from? Is that a select sound pack or recorded audio?

[Jorngg]

This helped me alot! Thank you so much! :)

[tompwns]

i was the exact same, great tutorial!

[serpz]

Great tutorial!
Please could you help on a question about remixing though.
How would I go about making stems of a track for a remix of my own choice?
Thank you

[letdown]

If we can make video requests, here's mine: Can you make a video outlining the steps to warping really old tracks that aren't, more or less, pre-quantized like this Metric track? I'd be great to learn the most efficient way to warp tracks for editing/using in sets, etc that aren't already easy for Ableton to figure out. Thanks.

[ktuluesp]

Great Video! I have a quick question. I downloaded a track for remixing with stems from the site that was mentioned. I'm using Ableton Live 8.2.6 The problem is the stems (bass, pad, lead etc.) are not the same length as the full track as it is shown on this video. They are only short clips. Must I lengthen the clips to the same length of the full track? Is there a way to have the clips correspond to the same bars that they appear in the full track? Help!

[JohnRennerontenor]

Laura...Yours is one of the best tutorials on this subject...I'm wondering if you can give me some specific information:
I have a song with a narration for an intro with background music at a slow tempo...When the pickup into the song occurs...the first beat does not fall on 'one' !

How do I warp this ?

Thank you...I'm former Beach Boys band member.

John Renner
Beach Boys, Bobby Darin, Aretha, etc.