Why Your Audio is Playing at the Wrong Tempo in Ableton Live

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Is your audio in Ableton Live playing at the wrong tempo? Here's why and how to fix it.
In this video, I explain why your audio is playing at the wrong tempo when you drag it into Ableton Live. You'll learn the setting you need to disable to fix it and how to have your audio play at its original tempo.
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@nnniom 6 ай бұрын

thanks a lot, I spent hours trying to figure out what was wrong. You saved my sanity

@AkashiXI Жыл бұрын

I felt like an idiot because Ableton is the first audio recording software I ever used, and as soon as I imported a song to record over, I had this issue. I went to amplitude but recently I didn't want to use their baked in effects for my tone, and finding this video I can finally start using Ableton for recording. Thanks a lot!

@jbavlsik Жыл бұрын

Great video, you explained very clearly what was needed to understand the "warp" function of Live. Thank you!

@ajesuslover 8 ай бұрын

BRO!!! God Bless You!! Seriously, just leveled up my Abelton experience and fixed a year's worth of issues with other tracks in 2 seconds! Keep the content coming!

@fromstudiotostage 8 ай бұрын

Glad I could help!

@boringkid1 Жыл бұрын

Clutch! I knew about warping before, but forgot after not using Live for a bit. Thank you!

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!

@alexisdelarocha517 Жыл бұрын

Super helpful! Thank you so much!!

@horusthegreatofficial 18 күн бұрын

Very helpful thanks. I was getting annoyed cause I had something good cooking and nothing would line up right. Now with this that's fixed

@fejericktorres5539 Ай бұрын

I thought my ear was crazy for a few tdays. I knew something was wrong. You saved my brain! thanks a lot!

@francweber Жыл бұрын

Finally, now I get it. You’re a lifesaver!

@hermestrismegistus3417 2 жыл бұрын

“Disable auto warp” doesn’t solve my issue personally. Audio I import into Ableton cannot be looped if warp is disabled, but enabling warp causes the loop to get scrambled because the automated beat detection is way off. This has been a problem for years, but there is an easy workaround: just disable warp and then resample! Disable warp on the loop, make sure the bpm is set correctly for the track, create a new audio channel and route the audio to it from the first, then record. The resampled audio will have the correct bpm and can be looped/warped.

@joeseabreeze Жыл бұрын

I'm surprised that you have to do that, but I'll give it a try. I remember back using earlier versions, Live would do a way better guess at bpm when enabling warp. It doesn't even seem to work in version 11, so I'm stuck dragging warp markers at various transients all through the wav. Very time consuming

@snisoo7954 11 ай бұрын

same here

@MrMarkieMoose Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. You just solved a huge mystery. Great presentation!

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! thanks for watching!

@johannamello3957 5 ай бұрын

appreciate this a lot man! you're a blessing really, much love

@paulwilkinsmixedmediaartis4565 Ай бұрын

Thank you very much, this has been doing my heead in

@DRMegaone 4 ай бұрын

Man I thought Live was actin crazy and I was done for. You saved the day!

@paulinar6363 2 ай бұрын

YOU ARE A HERO i’m so happy erverythingn finally works!!!! thanks you!!!

@erfannazarian Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video ... that was useful

@whoistaygucci8999 Жыл бұрын

Thank You So Much, Excellent Video

@anastasijav.5340 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!!

@TheUnderdogComplex86 Жыл бұрын

These helped me a lot. Thank you!

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

glad to help!

@MarvoDaGreat Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Great video. Warping was giving me the blues.

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped! It is a hard concept to understand and master

@joshknight1620 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@ShapanGG 9 ай бұрын

thanks for the fix

@hat4hat 6 ай бұрын

my king, my goat, my savior🙏

@AnnaliePrime Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!! I was about to cry. Subscribed!

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

glad to help!

@nickonator9398 8 ай бұрын

this fixed my problem! thank you!

@fromstudiotostage 8 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

@Somnia_song Ай бұрын

thank you!!!

@zacjbaker 8 ай бұрын

I LOVE YOU THANK YOU!

@jordanstojcevski9483 11 ай бұрын

Wow I have been trying to find out why on earth my imported Audio was always terrible. This is video I needed xD

@butcherthis1296 Жыл бұрын

I did question my life after running into this issue. Glad to know I'm not alone... :D

@golden.444 Ай бұрын

God, you just saved my life. Thank you so much.

@TheDoseofFaith 3 ай бұрын

thanks alot!

@beefybutterfly4269 Жыл бұрын

nice succinct and helpful./ thank you!

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

thanks for watching!

@divyani7789 Жыл бұрын

Instently solved thanks bro it work on the keroke track over too 👍🙏🏽

@MC_Chex 5 ай бұрын

You literally just saved my life... I was losing my damn mind. I'd like to explain what this fixed for me incase anyone runs into what I did. I uploaded a new beat into Ableton and pressed play. The beat sounded fine until the the first verse came in. The beats tempo randomly sped up for about 5 seconds and then slowed back down to normal. It literally only did it in that 1 spot on the song. After screaming my head off trying to figure it out, I came across this and it worked. The beat sounds fine now. If anyone can explain this to me, that would be great because I have NEVER ran into an issue like this before and I've made plenty of songs before this one. Anyway, thanks again and I hope my comment helped. I also subbed and liked! 🤙🤙

@rjjacobson8266 Жыл бұрын

very helpful thank you!

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome, thanks for watching!

@bianca.e.t Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@theexclamationmarks5336 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, you fixed my issue!

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

@perished_hart Жыл бұрын

THANK YOU!

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

Thank YOU! and thanks for the super thanks!!

@PatTurn 10 ай бұрын

from studio to stage, sending you love 🫶

@fromstudiotostage 10 ай бұрын

hey thanks so much!

@edwardharris5161 7 ай бұрын

Oh dear god thank you!!! I was about to throw my computer out the window! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙏🏻 Subscribed! Liked! Notifications!

@yeshnaidoo7085 4 ай бұрын

Man I was pulling out what's left of my hair trying to figure this out. Thanks bro!

@flipperpitstudio Жыл бұрын

Omg, bless you! 🙏😁

@LiamKillen Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks for this! Cheers.

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@CantonMasterDrummer 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for explaining this. I’m using Ableton for the first time this month in class; I added in a loop, turned on the metronome and it wasn’t matching. I slowed the session tempo down, and it simultaneously changed the audio’s tempo too. 😂 Hopefully these settings will fix that.

@fromstudiotostage 10 ай бұрын

thanks for watching!

@BreeNoble Жыл бұрын

Thank you! This particular "long sample warp" was off but it alerted me to that section and I turned some other things off which fixed the problem. This literally just started happening out of nowhere over the past few days. Not sure what changed but I'm so thankful for you video so I can go back to editing my podcast!

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

awesome! happy to help!

@kui.shorey 3 күн бұрын

what were the 'other things'?

@annaperinn 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, you saved me today :)

@fromstudiotostage 2 жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

@eliana_d Жыл бұрын

helpful, thank you

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@Urabus251 2 ай бұрын

thank you

@Bashanvibe 2 жыл бұрын

That makes a lot of sense when I was trying to learn Abelton Live I ran into that problem and it made me stop learning

@fromstudiotostage 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it’s a big hurdle to get over when you’re first starting with Live

@DerKerdox Жыл бұрын

Im really, really thankful for your video. I searched a lot to fix the problem ive had and was about to blame my Laptop for the issue...

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

glad you got it sorted and thanks for watching!

@flutedna Жыл бұрын

may jesus bless you, i was wandering here and there for about an hour

@RimaruTempest-qf2ze Жыл бұрын

thanks so much, this was driving me nuts😵‍💫

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@kumamoto7733 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@fromstudiotostage Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@lucasimonschlottmann9655 2 жыл бұрын

I'm going to try this right now bro thanks

@fromstudiotostage 2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! Thanks for watching

@czowiekzlasu3740 3 ай бұрын

thank you I love you

@simonemancusoperc Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@MajorBallsteins77 6 ай бұрын

Saved me from an abyss of musical ignorance 😂 thanks bro

@dinnergang6872 2 жыл бұрын

OMG thank you so much, after watching underbelly’s mixing tut #1 I’ve been stuck halfway through because of this 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼💜💜💜😘😘😘

@fromstudiotostage 2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@jtrops3051 9 ай бұрын

THANK YOU

@fromstudiotostage 9 ай бұрын

you're welcome!

@zecmadeit 9 ай бұрын

The absolute most relatable thing you said this whole video was "this is where you start questioning all your decisions in life and wondering what led you up to this point". I did that exactly lol

@fromstudiotostage 9 ай бұрын

haha

@liviagrossenbacher1953 11 ай бұрын

Thank youuuu

@fromstudiotostage 11 ай бұрын

You’re welcome!

@claudiojusto5453 Жыл бұрын

thanks

@RobbyCahyadiMansionPro Жыл бұрын

thanx a lot

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome!

@gelbakiyimmm Жыл бұрын

God. Bless you bruh! 🌺💕❤️

@1mmortal538 Жыл бұрын

Yoda man thanks you just saved our ableton careers and sanity!

@jamiesonree2769 6 ай бұрын

Thank you ahaha yes saved my sanity wow

@newdeveloper4985 Жыл бұрын

just spotless.

@electrefly8464 Жыл бұрын

Appreciated! I was going insane wondering why my tracks were going hay wire

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

Happy to help! Thanks for watching

@quasiwipeout Жыл бұрын

God God! Thank you sir! What a nightmare and solved so easily thank to your advice! Fantastic!

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@LateSorrowOFFICIAL Жыл бұрын

You're a lifesaver

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

@kintubeats Жыл бұрын

Life safer, i was going insane!! Thanks

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

awesome! Thanks for watching

@xyzclub3413 7 ай бұрын

Ty. Great video. Is there a solution for audio dropout? I saved my Als like normal. Opened it back up n now my audio drops out only on one part of the timeline. If I move the clip over to a different section in the TL Zit plays fine.

@WeAreInTheMiddle 3 ай бұрын

I owe you my life

@waheex Жыл бұрын

daft feature to set as a default, thanks for the video as this was driving me insane! The cubase interface is so much better, pity it's engine is as sloppy as an old cart. Ableton is so much tighter

@ShriSriram 9 ай бұрын

Wikkid - and thanks 🙂

@fromstudiotostage 9 ай бұрын

thanks for watching!

@yumpster64 9 ай бұрын

dear god thank you

@guitar_goes_brrrr8237 3 ай бұрын

My issue is ill drop a complete song in to ableton and it it will find the tempo on the metronome, but when the breakdown comes on it remains at the original tempo it started at example tempo starts at 130 then goes down to 85 at the breakdown but remains at 130 and it distorts the track is there a way to get that to automatically switch tempos during a tempo change?

@HomeMovieEmpire 3 ай бұрын

my ableton is doing a thing where the audio i record straight through the interface is kind of skipping a beat and tripping on itself. I troubleshooted its not the mic or interface but ableton itself because audition works perfectly fine. I've searched hours for a solution. Can anyone help

@vladkibalnyk9666 Жыл бұрын

tyty

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

ywyw

@petergreen2013 5 ай бұрын

how about MIDI file. I bring MIDI file into AL11 and I get on faster tempo!? I done your suggestion (off) - not working ... please help

@thomandy 11 ай бұрын

Hi. I'm curious if anyone know. From time to time in Ableton, my tracks gets haunted. They sounds possessed by a demon. I have no idea what triggers this, but it has happened 3 times in a week. My only solution has been to re-create the track. I must hit some kind of short cut on accident or something.. but yeah, anyone experienced something similar, where the entire track is just scewed and distorted without any sign of why?

@TwistedMind86Chern Жыл бұрын

Hopefully this will solve my problems. Im considering to change Ableton with another program. It seems that it is the worst DAW for musicians who are playing real instruments and they aren't djs or electronic music producers.

@drewlarmusic 3 ай бұрын

i disabled my auto warp long samples but its still doing it. idk what to do ):

@joeseabreeze Жыл бұрын

I can never get a stem synced with Live. I'm fairly new at this, but you'd think if you know the stem's tempo, it would be easy to do. But when I drop a stem in Live, and I set the starting put (this is kind of clunky and could be part of the issue), Lives metronome and the stem drifts after a few seconds and never stays in sync. And the stem I'm using is just a simple kick and snare at 142 bpm. Why would the stem start drifting away from the metronome when both are at 142 bpm?

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

Warping will make your life a thousand times easier!

@joeseabreeze Жыл бұрын

@@fromstudiotostage I've tried warping but it's really difficult going through various instrument tracks like guitar, bass, etc, and trying to stretch and shorten sections so that they line up to the grid. It takes hours and then sounds unnatural when I think I'm close.

@hopeistheanthem24 4 ай бұрын

So i am learning to use Ableton for drum covers.. I dump my song in and change the tempo of the click to 88bpm... But a funny thing happens.. when I'm recording the song, the click seems to slow down and speed up! Help? LOL

@insectpolitician7278 Жыл бұрын

I have an issue that I can't find the answer to anywhere - it's where I have an old Ableton 8 file that Ableton 10 has warped differently so that the clip sounds totally different. I have no idea how to fix it, do you have any ideas?

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

I would re-warp in 10

@jeremymelton Жыл бұрын

OK, my guru. I look to you for all things Ableton... I am going from God So Loved (100 bpm) directly to Make Us One (99 bpm) in a set. I pulled in tracks for God So Loved and changed the song tempo via automation to 100 bpm (previous song is 115 bpm) at the song start. Then I pulled in Make Us One tracks and because I'm me I wanted to warp Make Us One up to 100 bpm. Nothing I tried worked. Auto-warp was off when I imported them. I selected all tracks, warped them to current song tempo, and the audio file click and my Ableton click were still off. I know most people will say "just change the Make Us One song tempo to 99 bpm via the automation, idiot." I did, but my uptight self wants to know WHY I can't get them to match up. I tried warping via beats, warping via complex, nothing worked. Is it because the two tempos are so close together?

@fromstudiotostage Жыл бұрын

A few different questions here.. Can you warp any song to any tempo in Live? Yes. Why isn't warping working for you with that file? That's impossible to know without seeing that file and seeing what you're doing, but it's certainly possible