Reference Manual

125 Audio Clips, Tempo, and Warping
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 artificial groove onto clips in
real-time (page 155).
Syncing Longer Pieces
Live’s Auto-Warp algorithm makes longer samples and entire songs readily available for inte-
gration into your project. You can use the browser to import long samples or MP3, AAC, Ogg
Vorbis, Ogg FLAC and FLAC files. (Please note that not all of these file formats can be played in
the Intro and Lite Editions.)
When you drag an audio file 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, files which are being imported into the pro-
gram for the first time will need to undergo a first-time analysis process and will not be immedi-
ately available for playing or editing.