Help on saving disk space

phineas · Post by **phineas** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 3:42 am

Please help!

I was browsing through the project files of a recently-finished project to find a whopping 2GB (!) of files saved. On closer inspection the two main culprits were:
1) audio takes that hadn't been used in the final mix
2) frozen tracks.

Is there any way to automatically delete the audio file as the clip is deleted from the Live set? I had a look in the manual to no avail, but I am sure there must be a toggle box for something so simple. I assume flattening the frozen trax will also save at least a little space (going to have a try now).

All advice welcome

Cheers

johnnywu · Post by **johnnywu** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:22 pm

what if you flatten the tracks and then render it.

next, start a new live set, and drag the previously rendered song as audio onto your arrangement view...

phineas · Post by **phineas** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:07 pm

Thanks jonny,
It works fine for freeing up all the redundant takes for deletion but I'm still looking for a way to skip having to do this every time I'm recording. Do you use multitrack audio recording yourself? How do you cope with the excessive amounts of file storage?

mauve · Post by **mauve** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:17 pm

Check out this post.
http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... highlight=