Cutting Samples

27th April 2022

Once I had the objects recordings I imported them into Ableton to sort though the samples levelling their audio using Abletons gain controls and cropping out the ending noise or the failed attempts to capture the audio. Once I had finished I wanted to export all the clips of audio out to a folder so watch sound had its own WAV file this is where I found out that ablation doesn't do this without a community Max of Live plugin that I can’t install at college so I went through the steps below to get all the clips exported into WAV files.

Exporting from Ableton

So when exporting from Ableton you have to go to the top menu and select live on a mac and then click on export Audio which will open a menu (picture on left) in this menu we want to select “Rendered Tracks” and set it to “All Individual Tracks” so we get a file for the individual tracks making it possible to import them into Pro Tools then we want to set the sample rate to the same as our project so we don't lose quality on export then we want WAV files and for them to have a bit depth of 24 as these are what all the samples were captured in after that we can click export and and select what folder we want them all to export to.

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Cutting in Pro Tools

Then i opened Pro Tools and went file new and added a new to the file selected 48Khz as the sample rate and 24 bit as the bit depth and hit create (found in figure 1) and selected where Pro Tools would add its save folder for the project. The next step i did was import all the audio files using file import then finding the files and adding them to the import section and clicking done then i selected for the files to all be put on their own tracks. At this point I wanted to separate the silence out as I wanted each sample to be its own clip, this is done by double clicked with the hand tool on the track to highlight the track then going into the edit menu and going down to the option Strip Silence (as shown in figure 2) this would bring up a menu which allows you to adjust the tolerance of the selected area to strip audio from (as seen in figure 3) leaving us with cut up clips making it really easy to export. (as seen in figure 4)

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Exporting Clips - Pro Tools

Now we have our cut up clips we can export these out as their own individual WAV files that can be sorted into neat folders for use in our project. To export the clips you can go up to the arrow in the top right of protools and go down too “Export Clips as Files” or use cmd + shift + k on a mac to open the same menu (as seen in figure 5) once the menu opened i select for the “file type” to be “WAV” for the bit depth and sample rate I wanted it to match the project i select 23 bit 48Khz (as seen in figure 6) and then I selected the folder for the first set of clips to go into in this case it was hand claps but i would need to repeat this process for all the group of clips. (as seen in figure 7)

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