where everything saves to?

[GV]

hi there, I'd like to keep my mac clean as possible so can I get around live making it's own copies of my tracks to it's cache or is that essential for handy loading of my dj sets?

also i seen something about switching on ram in the tracks but I'm not too sure what's to be gained from it.

sometimes when I try to save a new set I've been working on it tells me I'm trying to save outside of a live set (or something like that anyway) and that I should direct it to a previous set or create a new one, if I create a new one will that mean more copies of tracks somewhere on my hd then?

thanks in advance

[markmakingmusic]

sometimes when I try to save a new set I've been working on it tells me I'm trying to save outside of a live set (or something like that anyway) and that I should direct it to a previous set or create a new one, if I create a new one will that mean more copies of tracks somewhere on my hd then?

Yes I believe it does...not quite sure what your overall question(s) is? You can install the "Live Library" which is where all your files are stored, onto an external hard drive. Then you can save your live sets onto the external as well. This definitely will keep your computer 'clean'. Hope this helps. Not familiar with ram switching in tracks :/

[GV]

what I meant was it tells me I'm trying to save a set outside of a live project and to point it to one or start a new one,

I'll keep the library where it is on my imac hd and maybe keep my mp3's on my external but create a folder for live sets and projects.

anybody care to explain the difference between a live set and a project??

[markmakingmusic]

http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=144551

[GV]

thanx /\

[www.midischool.com]

Hi GV,

First up, the RAM button...
If you activate this button in the Sample box of the Clip view, the piece of audio being referenced by the Clip will be loaded into the computers RAM. This means the computer can access it much quicker that if the audio was being read from the computer's hard disk. You would select this button on Clip(s) if your hard disk was struggling to read multiple audio samples simultaneously - (this would manifest itself as momentary audio dropout, and the disk overload indicator in the top right of the interface would flash orange). Don't load too many samples into the RAM because your computer will only have 1,2,4,8 etc GB of RAM, compared with 100s of GB HD space, and things will start to go wrong if your computer doesn't have enough free RAM to perform all its other background tasks..

A Live Set, or .als file, is a single file that you create/load/edit to create a song or performance in (among other things). It contains all the information pertaining to your Clips/Tracks/Scenes/Loaded instruments and FX etc that you might have in either Session view, Arrangement view or Both.

A Live Project is the folder created when you save a Live set for the first time. In this folder you will find the Live set itself, a folder called 'Ableton Project Info' (I'd be lying if I told you I knew exactly what function this performed!), and a Samples folder which contains all the samples you might have recorded or cropped during Live set creation. If you have performed a 'Collect all and save' from the 'File' menu in Live, the samples folder will also contain a sub folder called 'Imported' where copies of all imported audio will be stored.

If I have a project folder which is getting messy, or I'm not sure where things are being stored etc. a quick way of sorting this out is:
- File, Save as, choose where to save, ie desktop.
- Straight away perform a collect all and save
- You'll now have a tidy, self-contained Project folder, and you can delete any other bits relating to the old version of the set/project folder.

Hope this helps,

Tom.