

that makes me nervous about losing/cross referencing recordings. My newer concern is about Live recordings, and how once you move a batch to your external to clear space, any new ones from projects you start next begin again at Temp-01-01 and so on all over again. I now use it religiously, and wish I would have before, too. It takes practically one minute to collect and save a project, sometimes even quicker. I spent hours upon hours figuring out the locations of specific samples (I have a lot). and even though Live was great for telling me exactly which samples were missing, and giving me the old roots to the samples, some were nested so deep that the roots wouldn't show the whole path (this was after trying to bring up my sets again from the external of course).

I have gone through the hassle of replacing samples after moving them to an external, etc. I for one completely agree with what adventurepants said about collect and save. The time and care spent crafting your projects is worth more than hard drive space. If you collect all and save then you will end up with some duplicate samples inside projects, but in case of a crash, you win. Spending an entire day reassociating samples with projects after some failure is not fun. If you collect all and save, and backup to another drive, then you have a completely self contained record of everything youre doing. Think about it this way, if your hard drive dies today, you lose all your projects and your samples. I know I can just "collect all and save" each of my live sets, but I feel like there should be a more efficient way to do this.Ĭollect all and save IS the efficient way to do it. I made several songs that uses kick1 located inĪnd have all of my Live Sets know to point to this new location for the kick1.wav sample. Is there an easy way to do this in Live, without all of my projects losing the samples? Audio.android wrote:I've got a bunch of samples on my local harddrive, and I want to move them to an external harddrive.
