Ableton – special effects, slowing down the master track

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Essentially the process is to copy a section of the master track into sampler, then slow it down by applying a pitch bend envelope.

I made a Live set example of this with the chorus from Justin Bieber’s “baby”

Steps: (in arrangement view)

1. record a section of the master track into a new audio track
2. On a midi track, select the region you are working with and make a new midi clip (shift cmd M)
3. drag the audio from your newly created track into the instrument area for your midi track. This creates a simpler instrument
4. right click simpler and select “simpler to sampler”
5. Make a one note midi clip using C3 (ie, playing Midi note C3 causes the entire audio clip to play)
6. In sampler, increase pitch bend width to maximum
7. Apply a pitch bend envelope to the midi clip

Some miscellaneous keyboard shortcuts:

Shift tab – alternates from instrument view to clip view

shift transpose – octaves

hold down option key to duplicate clip by dragging