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CHAPTER 9. TEMPO CONTROL AND WARPING 126
If a single event in a percussion loop comes late, just pin a Warp Marker to it and drag the
marker to the correct beat position. You may want to pin the adjacent events as well, to
avoid affecting neighboring regions in the sample.
Using Warp Markers to
Manipulate the Groove.
Removing a sample's natural groove by applying Warp Markers is an interesting creative
method, particularly in conjunction with Live's ability to impose an articial groove onto clips
in real-time.
Syncing Longer Pieces
Live's Auto-Warp algorithm makes longer samples and entire songs readily available for
integration into your project. You can use the Browser to import long samples or MP3, AAC,
Ogg Vorbis, Ogg FLAC and FLAC les.
When you drag a le into Live that is too long to justify the assumption that it is a loop
or a one-shot, Live will auto-warp the clip by default (though this can be changed in the
Record/Warp/Launch Preferences).
Note that, for the auto-warp mechanism to work, les which are being imported into the
program for the rst time will need to undergo a rst-time analysis process and will not be
immediately available for playing or editing. As explained in the section in this manual on
analysis les, analysis can be batch-processed with the (PC) /
Ctrl
(Mac) context
menu's Analyze Audio command. Once analysis is nished, you can view the results of
Auto-Warp's assumptions about the le.