Can I get rid of Live 8?

[Punky921]

Hey guys,

So I've been doing most of my recent work in Live 9, but I've still got Live 8 and it's library taking up space on my HD. Can I just uninstall Live 8 and delete the library? Or is that a terrible, terrible idea? I still sometimes access old recordings I did in 8, just to re-extract the audio, and that's it. Will deleting Live 8 and its library screw up these old recordings?

[Punky921]

Doesn't the Live 9 core library have all the basic compressors, EQs, etc.?

[Punky921]

But deleting the Live 8 library isn't going to break my current, new Live 9 projects though, is it?

[BoddAH]

But deleting the Live 8 library isn't going to break my current, new Live 9 projects though, is it?

It will if any of those projects used content from the Live 8 library (very likely). Not sure about presets but certainly samples.

Live 9 is designed and intended to work with the Live 8 Library. It's strange but consider it the "factory" library.

[ChiefNugget]

I timed my Live 9 upgrade with a move to a new computer, so my situation is a bit different. I still had plenty of Live 8 sets to migrate. For the most part, I've had no trouble pulling up presets for Live 8 projects when opening in Live 9, even for the sample heavy presets from Session Drums and EIC. You may be able to move the Live 8 Library to an external HDD for archival purposes and install only the elements of the Live Library you use from the packs for Live 9. You might have some missing sample errors to deal with initially, but it should track them down in the Live 9 library. Everything from Live 8 Library seems to be in Live 9 Suite "Library" for me, it's just organized/delivered differently than it was in Live 8.

I just realized that you may have your own sample-based presets and customized device presets stored in the Live 8 Library depending on how you organized things. I had kept a separate Live 8 project that contained all my personal presets and my Live 8 Library was just the factory Library. That's essentially the Live 9 organization philosophy, so it made the transition easy.

[kitekrazy]

Can you delete Live 8 without removing it's library? Is there an options for that?

[Punky921]

But deleting the Live 8 library isn't going to break my current, new Live 9 projects though, is it?

It will if any of those projects used content from the Live 8 library (very likely). Not sure about presets but certainly samples.

Live 9 is designed and intended to work with the Live 8 Library. It's strange but consider it the "factory" library.

Seriously? That is freaking WEIRD.

[ark]

Uninstalling the Live 8 program does not delete the Live 8 library-they're separate.