SCENE 13

Warping Your Mind!

For me, it's all about the intuitive new warping engine in Live 8. Now Live has the ability to detect and quantize transients and extract grooves or vice versa. I can now do in seconds what used to take hours; having that ultra-fast workflow onstage is essential.

John Jacobus, Composer, Guitarist & Remixer

13.1 Elastic time

It is now time to change and upgrade your perception of audio. Let's begin with a little background on controlling the tempo of audio. There was a time when the only way to change the tempo of an audio recording was to alter the sample rate, or if you were an audio ninja, you could conform ...

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