I am currently exporting some of my soft synth/ambient/rhythm tracks from the “This Valley” protools files so I can play them live. I normally use Ableton Live to trigger my loops/tracks live, but the lately I’ve been having trouble making my loops warp to Ableton’s built in click (which I hacked and replaced with a Boss DB-90 rimshot sample). Sometimes it works, but almost any song in 6/8 won’t properly warp.

To solve this, I decided to just dump out my tracks w/ the click embedded in the stereo audio from protools so I could just trigger them in ableton without actually warping…the problem is I don’t like the protools click sounds. This of course gives me a mono track/loop b/c the left side of my stereo channel is designated for click. Also, if I role this way, there is a good chance that each of my tracks may have slightly different click volumes based on individual session settings…and we don’t want to lose that click in the mix now do we!

I recently made a sample of the DB-90 rimshot with is my favorite (and some of the drummers I use) sample to play with. What is the easiest way to create a custom click track in Protools 8 using this sample? (I say pro tools b/c that is where all my data is). Import into a tick-based track and quantize to grid?

I admit I’m not the best Ableton warper but I know my way around pretty well…but I don’t have the patience to place warp markers on every beat in my tracks. Ideally I would import stereo loops/tracks into ableton, warp them to the built in click (per individual scenes) and role out!

Thoughts?

“Love Alive” is a worship song I just finished in the last few weeks. It was a journey for me to write this song. In the midst of our pregnancy complications, I really felt God challenging me to look at the big picture and to soak in His grace, instead of just focusing on the day to day hardships. Through weeks of prayer I was reminded of the immensity of what Christ did for us and what that really meant to me. It affects absolutely everything I do. The more we let that amazing truth grow in our hearts, the more we have to share it…We just can’t contain something of such great porportions. I hope you enjoy this live version.

Additional Musicians:

Ashur Benjamin- Bass, Casey Block- Drums, Phil Tipping- Keys, Brett Reinhart- Guitar

Happy Day – Audrey Assad & Ryan Axtell – Cornerstone Chandler – Worship from brianwurzell on Vimeo.

Song of Solomon 8:6-8

⁶ Place me like a seal over your heart,
like a seal on your arm;
for love is as strong as death,
its jealousy ^[a] unyielding as the grave. ^[b]
It burns like blazing fire,
like a mighty flame. ^[c]

⁷ Many waters cannot quench love;
rivers cannot wash it away.

I had the privilege of leading this song with Audrey Assad.

This is a tweaked version Jason Williams and I created of this incredible Hillsong tune…with an Album Leaf inspired drumbeat. To simulate a Rhodes type sound I have my tele on the center pickup selection running through a Jeckyl and Hyde Overdrive with the Cry Baby Wah cocked all the way down. I switch to the bridge pickup for the lead line at the end.

CCLI Song No. 4455213
Written by Marty Sampson
2004 Hillsong Publishing (Admin. in U.S. & Canada by Integrity’s Hosanna! Music)