Reference Manual

56 Managing Files and Sets

Live Project will maintain all the ﬁles related to this piece of music — and Live’s File Manager will

provide the tools you need to manage them (page 59).

5.6.1 Projects and Live Sets

When you save a Live Set under a new name or in a new folder location, Live will create a new

project folder and store the Live Set there — unless you are saving the Live Set into an existing

Live Project. Let’s look at an example to illustrate this process:

We have recorded some audio into a new Live Set. We now save the Live Set under the name

“Tango“ on the Desktop. The Desktop is available in the browser because we have previously

added it as a user folder. Here is the result as displayed by the Live browser:

A Live Set and its Recordings in a Live Project Folder.

The project folder (“Tango Project“) contains the Live Set (“Tango.als“) and a Samples folder,

which in turn contains a Recorded folder with two samples in it. Note that the current Project is

also indicated in the title bar of Live’s application window.

Next, we record another track into our Project. We save the modiﬁed version of the Live Set un-

der a new name so that we do not lose the previous version. Accepting the Save As command’s

default suggestion, we store the new version of the song in the Tango Project folder.