Freezing and consolidating track in Ableton

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  1. MaXe1

    MaXe1 Ultrasonic

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    Hi guys,
    I consolidate and freeze a midi track to audio. Then when I want to drag it to kontakt instrument mapping editor by dragging audio track from arrangement window or dragging it from explorer window of Windows it still does not import into mapping editor of kontakt instrument. I even consolidated to a new scene(It didn't have any effect). It seems audio file currently seen in ableton is IN USE. How do you guys convert your tracks to audio and import it into kontakt sampler?(Step by step process of preferably fastest way possible)
    Thanks
     
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  3. Smoove Grooves

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    I don't use Ableton anymore, but aren't the clips on frozen MIDI tracks warped audio by default?
    Would that have something to do with it? I don't know.
    If so, just drag the audio to another audio track and Ableton should create a new piece of audio.
    Then drag that unwarped audio to Kontakt? :dunno:
     
  4. MaXe1

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    I did unwarp it. It does not work!
    I did unwarp it and put it on another track. It didn't work
    I did unwarp it and put it on another track, consolidated it then unwarped it and then tried to import. It didn't work.
     
  5. Smoove Grooves

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    I see.
    I don't really get what you mean here, though.
    Good luck.
     
  6. Ikagura

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    Frozen tracks are stored in the ...\Project Name\Samples\Processed\Freeze folder, maybe try copying it to somewhere else and try loading the copy into Kontakt?
    Also dragging and dropping from Windows Explorer won't work if the program you're trying to drop the files into is running in Admin mode.
     
  7. MaXe1

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    Is this what everyone does?
     
  8. AwDee.0

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    i think kontakt doesnt accept aiff. the file needs to be wav, if memory serves me correctly. go to live's prefs and navigate to the record warp launch tab and change the first thingy to wav. you can drag and drop as long as its a wav file, if it isnt, flatten and freeze (then drag and drop) should suffice.
     
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    Ah. Well done @AwDee.0
    I'd forgotten that. The simplest possible answer!
    I hope it's the OP's answer...
     
  10. filtersweep

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    If I freeze a track, I create a new audio track and drag the clip into it and it. Once you have that done you could slice to midi or whatever..
     
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    @filtersweep
    But the OP's problem is specifically to do with Kontakt...
    Your comment is totally irrelevant! :wink:
     
  12. Smoove Grooves

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    That's great. Thanks.
     
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    I use BiP aka bounce in place
     
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    Here I screencapted 2 (out of 5+) methods (and I'm far from being a Live pro user..). As Ikagura said, you may have problems dragging from explorer, because DAWs are mostly run as Admin, which prevents it (but thats another story..)

    Resample and Freeze (and run..;) methods:



    Hope it works for you.. otherwise let me/us know :wink:
     
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    he was asking about dragging a wav from live..?
    what's with the sarcasm? twat.
     
  16. Smoove Grooves

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    And this doesn't make sense:
    No; he wasn't asking about dragging a wav, because it sounds like he was using .aiff, and Kontakt wouldn't accept it.
    I think you should have read the OP's post first.
     
  17. MaXe1

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    Thanks all for your replies to the question.
     
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    Sorry for off-topic but as an avid Ableton user I'm wondering what Kontakt can offer that Live's many sampler capabilities can't? My understanding is it's usually easier to manage Ableton samplers then the less intuitive Kontakt player no?
     
  19. AwDee.0

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    i believe people hear differences in sound quality
     
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    Very cool, I'm glad you mentioned this. I've been curious about Kontakt outside of purchased libraries so I'm inspired to experiment now:bow:
     
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