All right, welcome back. Now that we know where to get tracks and how to prepare them, there's a few issues that may come up as you get them in your Ableton set. For example, what if you need to change the order of the track or need to change the tempo of the track in this video I'll be going over how to do that and a few more things. So let's get our template open. Alright, so here we are in our nice little spiffy template, I'm going to drag in a messed up track that doesn't start at the right time it wasn't bounced correctly and show you how you can correct this because there's a very good chance this might happen. I'm going to make an audio track and I'm going to drag in and messed up track that I already have.

This one is called New Song 193 BPM messed up. I'm gonna make sure this is at 93 BPM and time signature of four, four. We're all good to go. I'm going to double click it and hit work to put a grid on it. So there we go every once in a while, depending on where you get your audio, it may not have been bounced perfectly to a grid. So here's where we can set that up.

And this one, as you see is messed up. It's got this empty time at the beginning. So I'm going to just drag account in here. And let's see if we can get this going. Actually, I'm going to use this one. And I'm going to make sure 93 BPM this should be review for for time signature, and let's launch this.

And I'm going to put this down the same channel rules 123. Okay, so as you see, it's all messed up. It's not starting at the right time. We got to line that up. So when we hit work, Ableton puts these transit This is a transient right here. A transient is basically just a bump in the audio.

So as you see transient, transient, transient, transient, Ableton puts these pseudo warp markers and I'm just looking in this corner as I as at highlights. These are super helpful. It's basically like snapping to the grid. Just makes it really easy to edit things quick thank you Ableton. So if we right click, we can do set one dot one dot one here and that's going to make our track starts from that point, boom. And then I'm going to put start at negative one to leave room for the counting.

Simple as that. Now let's test it 1234 boom, beautiful, good to go. Let's pretend it wasn't that easy. And the pseudo marker wasn't perfectly placed where we needed it to be. I'll just undo this. Because it doesn't sometimes Ableton pseudo markers aren't perfectly in the right spot, and it just doesn't always work out.

If that's the case, you can literally make your own pseudo markers by just double clicking and make a warp marker there. And another way is you could zoom way way in wherever you want it to start, click on that spot and then right click Set 111 here, boom, it may take some time. trial and error and then to go negative one from there. And there's some tracks that don't have any rhythm at the beginning. So sometimes I'll go like, until there's rhythm it might be like, measure 15 and set one one there, and then I'll, I'll make the start like negative 15. Whatever you got to do to make it work, let's test her out.

1234 There you go. So that solves that. Another issue that may arise might be Oh crap, I need to change the order of my track. So I actually made a guide for this new song guide MIDI, so I'm going to drag this in here. And that should be a guy 1234 so here's just pre made MIDI verse three with the count is going in there. Perfect.

So what we're going to do is change the order of this song let's add a chorus to this song. This may be something you want, you'll end up with needing to do. So I'm going to grab both of these. I'm going to click this one, hold Shift, grab the guide, and hit Command C, which is copy or edit, copy, and then press tab. To get an arrangement view going to activate the view. Thanks for following along, I know is going fast, then Command V, or I'm going to undo that and just paste same thing.

So in Arrangement View, here's all of the media made for the guide. And here's our track. Let's hear it one. Oh, I didn't paste in our click. I'm just going to use Ableton click for now let's try that 123 core. Okay, so everything's working.

I'm just gonna skip through the guide. This is where guides are really helpful because then it lets you know where the sections are pre chorus, okay, there's pre chorus, verse, chorus, here's the chorus. So the course starts At measure 36 and then where does the next section start? Okay, there's a down turn there. So I'm going to select Oh my goodness. Sometimes this happens.

This is a weird thing. Ableton. I don't know why you do this. When I select that, see this thing coming up, it's like, oh, Warby and weird. Look at that a bunch of weird stuff happening. So to get rid of that, watch this weird stuff happening here, just hit this button right here, boom, I'm going to select the distance of time, that is the chorus.

And down here, you can look on the bottom bar, and it'll tell you how much you have selected, says link eight. That's eight bars. We have 20 seconds and it shows a measure, it's super helpful for that. I'm going to hit command E, which is split or you can do edit split command each shows you the shortcut there. And now I'm going to click this hold Shift click this one and just move these over eight bars and then click this again. Now I'm going to do Command D duplicate this.

Boom. Now we got two courses. Let's make sure it lines up. Okay, so the track is doing the right thing, but the guide isn't. So I'm just gonna copy this part, Command C, and then Command V, boom. We have another account in.

And then from here, it should be all right. There we go. So now we need to get it back to live view over here. So here's where the magic is done. All you do is select it all right, click consolidate. Boom.

So it's gonna take some time because it's audio but the MIDI it'll bounce like right away together. So here we are done. Now I'm going to Command C to copy it. Tab can turn off this click drag these down here. Let's try our new ones and then I'm just going to paste it in this slot. Here we go 1234.

And I'm going to go see, where's our double chorus for looks like measure, measure 35. And here's a way you can test tracks you can skip through by typing in this box up here, which is the Clock Line. I'm gonna skip to measure 34 three chorus, I'm gonna skip ahead. There's our double chorus, and we are set to go for this track. And remember if we needed to transpose it, all we would have to do is transpose right here and put it on complex mode so it transposes clearly. Boom.

One last thing that you may encounter if you're are preparing tracks is a BPM change. So because we worked this to 93 BPM because the audio was actually recorded at 93 BPM. Now we can literally start it at whatever BPM and Ableton will warp it automatically for us. It's so legit as long as you do the initial warp originally the right way, you're good to go. So we can set our start tempo, say your band or whatever you're playing with or preparing this for wants to do it way faster, like ridiculously faster. Let's go seven BPM more, and this should work 1234 so it's as simple as that as long as you warp it correctly.

Initially as you set it up, and work always work to the global tempo which is up here instead of this segment BPM. It gets confusing just ignore this. This just tells you what the track was warped at after you warp it. I would just focus on this global tempo boom. You know what to do. Now if these issues come your way I hope this equips you To be really flexible and maybe even get creative with some of your sets and a very common way people use this can be putting two songs if they're really close in BPM you can just warp one like a little faster so it matches the next song and make an awesome transition and go straight from one song to the next or whatever.

That concludes this video. I will see you in the next one. Peace