Ableton Audio Issue - plz help

[cardinal]

My issue: when I click warp button and add a marker, I hear artifacts throughout the track. Mostly on the low end, especially when the music is busy (lots of hi's, mids and rolling lows) I almost want to call it a skip, only because the artifacts occur at a regular rate.

When I remove the marker, the artifacts remain.

Only when I turn off warping does the track sound right. When I re-enable warping, the artifacts return, even if I do not add a marker.

What I have tried: clicking the Hi-Q button before warping.
changing the buffer size in Live > Preferences (slide it down until I hear clicks, slide it up until there are none... I hear clicks at 14, no clicks at 29. factory setting was 512)
double checking to make sure that my sample is at 44.1k, 16bit.
changing sample rate to 96k


all to no avail :(

Is this a problem anyone here has experienced?

Thanks :tinfoil3:

[Jontron]

Could possibly be the warping mode, change it from Beats to Complex or Complex pro and see if that helps.

[bassfrq]

Could possibly be the warping mode, change it from Beats to Complex or Complex pro and see if that helps.

This is the solution, could also use pitch to reduce artifacts.

[Jontron]

Sometimes the artifacts can be used creatively to create dope effects on your sounds :D

[BeatFreq]

Sometimes the artifacts can be used creatively to create dope effects on your sounds :D

troof!

re-pitch is the only warp mode that shouldn't produce artifacts, but complex is good for most practical purposes.

are you warping an mp3? what's its bitrate? you'll get fewer artifacts with high-quality source files.

[cardinal]

ah the warp mode did the trick... I'm gunna ahve to read up on those...

thanks for the help!