Multiple Ableton Launch "Configurations" or "Settings"?

[Clint Goss]

Is there a way to have more than one set of "parameters" or "settings" per machine when launching Ableton Live? I'm thinking of multiple "Configurations" that have different options, possibly triggered by a command line option on startup.

This is a basic feature of other live DAWs (I'm coming from Cantabile). In particular, switching between laptop-based projects (where I use remote scripts), and ones destined for Push 3 Standalone (where I must MIDI-map my controllers) is a big hassle - I currently have two separate machines at home with different Ableton configurations (desktop and laptop), but this is gonna get old fast.

How do others handle this? Any suggestions welcome!

[Tarekith]

You can create different templates for how you want your projects laid out, but you can’t save different audio and midi IO settings for instance.

[Clint Goss]

Thanks Tarekith ...

The usual way this works is a command line switch to tell the DAW where to look for it's config files, rather than the default "hardwired" location. Then it is a simple matter to create Windows shortcuts with different command line options for your different configurations. That's the way Cantabile works, for example.

Might there be such a command line option for Ableton Live?

[Tarekith]

I've never heard of anything like that, though it's not something I've looked that deeply into either I'm afraid.

[[jur]]

You could install multiple versions of Live, and set each one to your liking.

[Clint Goss]

> multiple versions of Live,

How interesting. Thanks for that!

So, looking at ...
https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/artic ... ns-of-Live
... it seems straightforward (although I may regret saying that ...)

However, Preferences for Live seem to live on Windows in: \Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Ableton\Live 12.0.2\Preferences\ for my current version ... and I expect that is ?fixed? ... unless there is a way to change that??

[[jur]]

Oh yeah, in that case you could install e.g L12.0.1, so that preferences could be independant.