bouncing audio samples?

[cbmauldin]

can anyone tell me the easiest way to bounce my samples in a live set so that they no longer reference the whole file living somewhere else on my hard drive? in other words, make all the audio samples I'm using in a given track actually reside in the unique live set's folder?

does that make sense? I mean, I realize the point of why ableton does this from a streamlined random access standpoint, but I'm trying to clean up my itunes and know I'm gonna lose a sample or two if I don't somehow do this...

many thanks -- ( and I apologize if this a real basic procedure I missed along the way)

cbm

[colonp]

The easiest way would be to use "Collect all and save" from the file dropdown menu (might be called something else on a mac, whatever has save, save as, new etc.). This will save the full file of whatever you've sampled in the project folder.

I don't think there is a quick and easy way for Live to only save the part of the file that you use (is that what's called bounced?).

[cbmauldin]

Thank you, I will try this. Can anyone else confirm this?

*BTW* bouncing down a track (digitally) usually refers to the point-of-no-return recording of audio on a track (or multiple tracks -- drums for instance if you are analog) to one stereo track in order to free up processing power if you are using plug-ins or more channels if you somehow ran out...

[ollyb303]

Collect all and save will definitely do what you original post says you want to do, though this doesn't really fit with your own definition of bouncing in your second post, which is more akin to Live's freeze/flatten functionality.

[cbmauldin]

sweet. problem solved. thanks to you both for the solution.

but yeah, I'm kinda old school, so bouncing was definitely a reality in the olden days...8-tracks, hardware samplers, early DAWs...haha...I guess the term just stuck...

[ollyb303]

HTH