Hello everyone
Now that L-12 is with us, I am interested to know how other users approach the question of living with sets from previous versions of Live.
I can't quite decide whether to just "save over" when opening L-11 sets in 12 and permanently committing them to the new environment, or if there is some generally-held wisdom which holds that it is best to save-as instead (thereby bulking up the storage space... but then, storage isn't as impossibly expensive at was once upon a time).
It certainly seems safest to "save as" but is it really necessary? My own general tendency appears to be that the more accustomed I get to using each successive new version of Live, the rarer the occasions I use a previous version to do any work.
That said though, the transitional periods do make a person wary....
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Looking for a bit of wisdom about opening / saving older sets
Looking for a bit of wisdom about opening / saving older sets
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Re: Looking for a bit of wisdom about opening / saving older sets
If you “Save As….“ a L12 project without doing a Collect All and Save, you won’t duplicate all the audio files in a set, you’ll just create a new, L12 .als file that hardly takes up any space.
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Re: Looking for a bit of wisdom about opening / saving older sets
Do not have perfect faith in imperfect things, Grasshopper...
Re: Looking for a bit of wisdom about opening / saving older sets
Thanks for weighing in!Pitch Black wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:11 pmIf you “Save As….“ a L12 project without doing a Collect All and Save, you won’t duplicate all the audio files in a set, you’ll just create a new, L12 .als file that hardly takes up any space.
I understand that; the question becoming one of organization I suppose, and best- (or maybe just "most clever"-) practice.
I reckon I could open the existing set in 11, append "L11" to the set name, then open the first one again in 12 and just hit save....
Perform. rig
MacBook Pro 2015 | OS 12.6 | 2.8 GHz Quad Intel i7 | 16Gb RAM | 4 Tb External HDD (USB3) | MicroBook IIc | Akai APC40 MkII | LIVE 11 Suite
Prod. rig
Mac Studio M1 Max | OS 13.2.1 | 64 Gb RAM | MiniStack STX | ApolloX6 | Live 11 Suite
MacBook Pro 2015 | OS 12.6 | 2.8 GHz Quad Intel i7 | 16Gb RAM | 4 Tb External HDD (USB3) | MicroBook IIc | Akai APC40 MkII | LIVE 11 Suite
Prod. rig
Mac Studio M1 Max | OS 13.2.1 | 64 Gb RAM | MiniStack STX | ApolloX6 | Live 11 Suite
Re: Looking for a bit of wisdom about opening / saving older sets
I believe I begin to understand whereof you speak....oblique strategies wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:18 amDo not have perfect faith in imperfect things, Grasshopper...
For example, sets that rely upon instances of presets from packs upgraded for 12 are now committed to 12 (if I want to keep using those presets, of course).
Fly, little bird, fly....
o99
Perform. rig
MacBook Pro 2015 | OS 12.6 | 2.8 GHz Quad Intel i7 | 16Gb RAM | 4 Tb External HDD (USB3) | MicroBook IIc | Akai APC40 MkII | LIVE 11 Suite
Prod. rig
Mac Studio M1 Max | OS 13.2.1 | 64 Gb RAM | MiniStack STX | ApolloX6 | Live 11 Suite
MacBook Pro 2015 | OS 12.6 | 2.8 GHz Quad Intel i7 | 16Gb RAM | 4 Tb External HDD (USB3) | MicroBook IIc | Akai APC40 MkII | LIVE 11 Suite
Prod. rig
Mac Studio M1 Max | OS 13.2.1 | 64 Gb RAM | MiniStack STX | ApolloX6 | Live 11 Suite