Warp Me

Warp Me: every beat on Live’s grid

Warp Me is a desktop app by Lessons in Live for producers and DJs, made around Ableton Live and working with every other DAW. Drop in a track and Warp Me finds every beat and where the 1 is. It then puts the track into Live already warped: one warp marker per beat, the 1 on a bar line, in time with Live’s metronome straight away.

• Every beat, every bar. Warp Me sets one warp marker on every beat and puts the 1 on a bar line, so the track plays in time with Live’s metronome the moment it lands. Every marker stays editable in Live.
• Made for records that drift. Disco, funk, soul, live bands, old edits: tempos that wander are where Live’s own auto-warp slips, picks half or double tempo, or misses the downbeat. Warp Me listens with a neural beat tracker and checks the grid bar by bar.
• One click into Live. SEND TO ABLETON puts the track on a new audio track in your open Live Set, warped and lined up. Or SAVE LIVE SET writes a ready-made Live Set.
• A whole folder at once. Drop a folder and Warp Me warps every track, then puts them into one Live Set (up to 200 tracks), one after another, or exports them as WAV or AIFF, at their own tempo or yours.
• Warp markers your way. A marker on every beat, every bar or every 8 bars.
• Know where to listen. CHECK marks the stretches Warp Me is least sure of, and NEXT takes you straight there. Most tracks come back “all clear”.
• RGB or 3-band waveform. Choose the look you know from your DJ software: the CDJ-style 3-band view or rekordbox-style RGB, coloured by the sound.
• Dead-straight for house and techno. Tracks made in a DAW or on a drum machine get one perfectly straight grid through the kicks, and the 1 lands where a DJ expects it. If it doesn’t, the ◀ 1 / 1 ▶ arrows move it a beat at a time.
• For every other DAW. EXPORT AUDIO writes a WAV or AIFF at any tempo you choose, starting right on the 1, with every beat on the grid and the key kept. Set Logic, Cubase, FL Studio, Bitwig or Pro Tools to that tempo, drop the file on bar 1, and it plays in time with their metronome. Choose your own export folder in the settings.
• Check it by ear first. Press play and hear the track with a metronome on Warp Me’s grid: exactly what goes to Live. A CDJ-style 3-band waveform shows every bar, and the ORIGINAL view shows how far one fixed tempo would drift off.
• No tool gets every recording right. Warp Me nails the grid on the vast majority of tracks, but very free-tempo playing, tracks without a clear beat or unusual edits might need a manual touch. That’s why every marker stays editable in Live, and why you can try it free for 30 days on your own music first.
• Acapellas and speech too. Warp Me hears whether a file is a full track, a vocal or a speech. Bare vocals without a beat are the hardest case: many land right on the 1, and the metronome lets you check before you send. A speech goes in with Warp off, its first word on the 1.
• Your files, your language. WAV, AIFF, FLAC and MP3, up to 30 minutes per file. In English, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese, with a cockpit look and warp-drive animation.

Systems

Desktop app for macOS 13.4 or later (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Windows 10/11 (64-bit). Ableton Live 12 for SEND TO ABLETON and SAVE LIVE SET (SEND TO ABLETON needs Live 12.0.5 or later); EXPORT AUDIO works with any DAW.

One purchase, both systems

Buying gives you both the Mac and the Windows version and one serial for 2 computers: your desktop and your laptop. You’ll find the serial and the downloads in your order e-mail and under My account. Updates are free and announced inside Warp Me.

Free 30-day trial

The download works as a free 30-day trial of the full app. After the trial you can still open and warp files and hear them with the metronome; sending to Ableton, saving Live Sets and exporting audio then need your serial.