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Hi I hope everyone’s safe and well.

Been making music on and off with Ableton for a long while now but pretty rubbish at the tech side, so sorry if this is a stupid question or in the wrong section. Been trying to find an answer to this but have struggled.

I’ve got Live 9 but will be getting 10 and a new MacBook Pro soon.

I often collect all and save when working on a song but only really know it works in relation to saving the audio clips/recordings I use in a song.

I’m looking at getting some more VSTs like Komplete which have massive sound, I believe sample, libraries.

Say if I have the Komplete library an external hardrive and collect all and save in Ableton, would it save the sound I’m using so I can play it live with a midi keyboard without needing the external hardrive?

Or would it still need access to the sound library for me to play live?

I was thinking collect all and save may only work on parts that I already recorded/drawn in in Ableton?

Many thanks for your help.

Riv

Collect All and Save doesn't save files inside 3rd party plugins, only in Live's own devices like Sampler, Simpler, Impulse, etc.

You can even test by using Collect All and Save with a Set that has a 3rd party sampler plugin, then moving to another folder a few sample files used by that plugin in that Set, when you (re-)load that Set, Live won't show the orange-colored message in the status bar about missing files (the plugin itself may show a message or popup).

Kontakt has DRM so I'm pretty sure you will need to install (and activate the license, for any non Kontakt-player library) in the 2nd computer. Even if Live could save stuff from inside plugins, the Kontakt DRM would block it for sure.