Audio Splice to Midi File?

[dusty4444]

So I have a channel where I cropped an Audio Sample then spliced it to midi . Then later I deleted that audio Channel as I only needed the midi. I then was cleaning up my external HD and moved the Ableton Project. So how come now that Midi Clip wont play ? when I click on each slice the sample says offline . So my question is when you slice an audio track to Midi does it save that midi file somewhere? I would have thought it would just save it into the set. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I can get it to play. Volume on each slice is turned up , and channel is routed to the master. Any idea?

[Tarekith]

Midi is not an audio file, it's just a list of notes telling which slices of audio to play. If you delete the audio file the midi clip is triggering, it's just sending note data to....nothing.

[dusty4444]

Right so I guess what Im saying is that I had one channel of audio. I spliced it to Midi . I then deleted that Audio channel , and my midi channel with my splices were working just fine. Now its not. I never moved the sample it came from just the whole project . ( that i can think of) How would I know how exactly I cropped the Audio clip before splicing it to midi etc. I dont know how to get this back.

[Tarekith]

Next time you save a project, it's probably a good idea to use the Collect All and Save command to ensure any audio you need is copied to the project the folder. I have no idea how you have your audio files organized, so it's not easy to guess how you would get that audio file back if you dont know where it is on your hard drive.

[dusty4444]

Hello


Good to know , I have it fixed. I didn't see the stupid orange bar that had missing media files. So I just search the folder . So that basically answers my other questions about midi ,that basically when you splice to it , it just stores each slice just like the audio file in the same location but somehow the splices in the midi note must know how it was spliced because it came back perfectly . Which leads me to my last statement , I think i am going to do what you just said the collect all , that make way more sense. I will have one copy of samples in my general warped or drum loops folder ,then if I use it I will copy one in the project folder as well. Thanks for the help .


-Dusty