Advice for ripping sound files to use in live

There are several ways to rip sound files in order to use them in live as audio files or using the simpler object for more manipulation possibilities.

1) You can fetch a sound from soundcloud or youtube - > there are several websites that can fetch sounds from either these sites  http://www.online-convert.com/ -> click on audio converter and chose wav as your file. this will send you to the next page where you will paste the link of the youtube video or soundcloud song you want to convert.
1.1) You can also fetch a sound from exiting mp3 or other sound files you have in your computer. 

2) Once you have fetched the wav file you can either open it in Audacity or any other DAW (digital audio workstation). Select the desired part of the sound file you want to rip and copy that into a new session of your DAW. Be sure to crop the file to have the desired duration taking care of the onset and the offset of the sound.
-> Export the selected clip as a wav file and then open it using Live.

3) In live you have the possibility to open it either as a sound file in an audio track or you can drag it into a sampler or a simpler instrument for more control and transposition possibilites in a Midi Track.
Remember ir you want to use it in one of the instruments be sure to drag the file into the instrument and not directly into the midi track. -> Midi tracks do not read sound files. 


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