Today I will be using Ableton Live Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) to create a derivative track. I will be looking at the Arrangment view in Ableton, more specifically I will be using the sample editor feature to edit the audio clip.
To add the audio sample in Ableton, I tried dragging and dropping the audio file into the arrangment view and it worked perfectly fine. After listening to the song a few times, I found a good 4 bar loop that I want to use. Since the audio is one long strip, I want to cut it and use that 4 bar loop. To do that I selected the area I want to cut and right clicked to see any commands I could do; it display an option to split the audio clip, great!. Ableton also provides quick shortcuts you could use to make the workflow faster, "command e" in this case.