A place to take notes on projects

[DeadlyKungFu]

how about a notepad where you can write notes for a project?? I have dozens of projects, each with unique quirks, it would be nice to have something that goes into the .als file where I can leave notes to myself on the project. Which outboard synth has to be set to what patch, for example.

[abel]

but i always just kept a windows notepad doc folder along side of any song I did....

[wzn]

I think you can find 2 note vst-plugins on kvraudio.com, I just don`t remember their names.

[kennerb]

One of the plug ins is Porteplume. I can't find the site where it is from any more but I have it. If anyone needs it just PM me.

[amo]

there is that one:
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1855.html
Cheers,
amo

[demonjester9]

Does this plugin have a text limit? Also is there anything for Mac as it noticed this is Windoze only

[janmonk]

The KVR entry refers to VstNotes from ProXL. It has no text limits and is windows-only, as far as i can tell.

Regards,
Jan

[yannxou]

I'd personally would like to write comments inside a clip. This can be done now in the clip name and it looks good in the arrangement mode but when you're editing the content it's a bit complicated.

Also, why not adding a 'Search' function to look for a text within the clip name / track name or scenes? That would bring a new and faster way of browsing clips.
It could work like the Firefox search bar (very clean):
Ctrl+F :opens search bar.
F3 (while bar opened): Next match
Shift+F3 (while bar opened): Previous match

...just a thought

[EnjoyRC]

Found a mac version...

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1744.html

Looks cool.. haven't tried it yet. For Win and Mac. And it's free. 4096 character text limit. 4k of text should be enough for quick notes.

[DeadlyKungFu]

This is a kick ass work around... I would think the Ableton devlopers could implement this, please.

http://www.ableton.com/index.php?main=forum

Hoffman_2k wrote:

This method will not allow you to put a note on anything you want. And i am talking about written note's here. Not musical notes.

You can't even write the note's in Live 4 itself.
But you can do it in a simple text editor. Because in the end, that's what it's made for.

How to keep note's

Make a new folder and give it any name you want . Inside that folder you make another folder with the same name as the Live project you wish to keep note's on. And add "Lessons" to the end. Like this:
"My project Lessons".


Now either put your Live .als file in the first folder. Or make a copy of it and put it there. Including samples if the set was self-contained.

Make an empty .txt file in the "my project Lessons" folder. Save it as "LessonsEN.txt"

Now if you go back to the previous folder and double click on your Live set. When it starts up you will have an empty sheet on the right. You can hide it by going to the menu "view" and choose lesson.

Editing the .txt file

This uses simple syntax
To make a page with a title. Type: "$Page your title here"
To display something in bold, you type it like this: /this will be bold/
Every time you save the .txt file and go back to Live, the info will be updated. You do not need to save anything to that Live set. This is a non-destructive method. If you wish to remove the lesson. just delete the "My project Lessons" folder with the text file in it.

If you want to include picture's. You will have to save them as .tif file's. And they have to be ibm (intel) encoded.
On mac you can convert any picture with the included app called "graphic converter"
On windows there shouldn't be any problems neither, figuring it's a windows format.

To include these picture's in your set. First throw them in the "my project Lessons" folder.
If you go back to your .txt file and type the name (example: figure1.tif) and save it. It will show up in your Lesson view.