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CHAPTER 5. MANAGING FILES AND SETS 43
Storing default clip settings with the analysis le is different from saving the clip as a Live
Clip.
While analysis les are a handy way to store default information about a particular sample's
settings, keep in mind that you can use different settings for each clip within a Live Set 
even if those clips refer to the same sample on disk. But if you drag a new version of the
sample into a Live Set, Live will use the settings stored in the analysis le for the newly
created clip.
The analysis le's name is the same as that of the associated sample, with an added .asd
extension. Live puts this analysis le in the same folder as the sample.
Samples that have an .asd le are displayed like this in the Browser.
Samples without an .asd le look like this.
The analysis les themselves do not appear in Live's Browsers.
Note that you can suppress the creation of .asd les by turning off the Create Analysis Files
option in the File/Folder Preferences. All data (except for the default clip settings) can be
recreated by Live if the .asd le is missing, however this will take some time for longer
samples.
5.2.3 File Pre-Analysis
To avoid waiting for longer samples to be analyzed the rst time they are imported into Live,
you may want to pre-analyze them.
To pre-analyze all the les contained in any folder in the Browser, use the (PC) /
Ctrl
(Mac) context menu's Analyze Audio command. This process can also be cancelled via the
context menu.
5.2.4 Exporting Audio
The File menu's Export Audio command allows you to export Live's audio output as new
samples. The resulting les can be used to burn an audio CD for listening purposes or a