ableton live question

[YEK]

can i turn a soft synth bit into a wav with ableton... this feature is probably done with the more complicated systems like cubase... can live do it though?

[candlestickmaker]

can i turn a soft synth bit into a wav with ableton... this feature is probably done with the more complicated systems like cubase... can live do it though?

 

you mean like bouncing a midi track in ableton?

[Guest sysex]

create an audio track and select its input as Resample. Mute all other parts and solo the track you want to render to wav/aif.

 

Put ableton in record mode... play your clip and it will render the output to the Resample track you created in the arrange window.

[Guest Tamas]

You can either route the VST to an audio track and record it like that, or if you want a high quality version, drag all the loops into the track view, highlight it, and select "export audio/video". (for better than audio track recording, select 48000 as sample rate, though personally I would render it at 96KHz to get a truly nice sounding WAV)

Make sure if you export it to leave "Normalize" to off, and preferably, dither with some other VST such as the Waves L3.

[candlestickmaker]

or you could freeze the track and then flatten it.

[Guest sysex]

I think having 1 track dedicated as the "Resample" track is the most efficient.

 

It opens up the option to record/mixdown/bounce/render/print any number of tracks without having to change any of the individual tracks I/O settings.