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?

This is an example of  some of the songs I am writing  for my new side project Oktava and the Trade Secret. This particlar song is written in 9/4. Its not finished but it will wet your palette for more OATS!