Man this is a real pain I must say, especially coming from cubase where all samples are always in place…they were all there because I could see them, but I couldn’t get them into place for the life of me.
I tried to ‘save and collect’ within the project, then saved under a new project name and re-open; but nothing. Any help would be wonderful.
Thanks,
Mo
Hello…anyone out there? I thought I read quick response for paying members? ;)
Please address and thanks for your time!
[quote]mostey (4/7/2009)[hr]Man this is a real pain I must say, especially coming from cubase where all samples are always in place…they were all there because I could see them, but I couldn’t get them into place for the life of me.
I tried to ‘save and collect’ within the project, then saved under a new project name and re-open; but nothing. Any help would be wonderful.
Thanks,
Mo[/quote]
hi Mo,
sorry for the delay in the reply!
i’m a little unsure what your exact problem is? are all of your samples saying “Sample Offline” when you load up your project? this is in ableton live or cubase?
bry
The problem specifically is that when I take my live project to another computer it says “sample offline.” I can see them in the folder, but they don’t place themselves in the track and nothing plays.
Thanks for your help,
Mo
if you make sure to select “collect all and save” from abletons drop down menu. that will make sure all the samples used in your project are self contained within that folder!
from there it should open fine!
if it doesn’t however, there is a linking function built in to ableton that will search out the missing samples. you can just direct the searching directory to your project folder.
you will get a “Samples are missing click here to learn more” error at the bottom of the screen
clicking it will open a “Missing Files” window on the right, from there you select the folder to search in. or you can just click “Go” and do an automatic search.
this should relink all of your samples back in.
but you shouldn’t really get this problem if you are doing “collect all and save”
make sure you are copying over the correct project folder! with all of its enclosed folders, being the “Ableton Project Info” folder and the “Samples” folder
bry
Thanks I’ll try again. I did save and collect and I thought i re-pointed the folder correctly…maybe not. Definitely not as straight forward as cubase!
Mo
I got this from an ableton tech and thought others may want to see what they’re saying:
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to correctly transfer sets to an other computer you need to save the sets into a “project folder”.
I suggest to create a folder with the name “LiveSets” on your desktop. Use this folder to store all your Sets/Project-folders to.
“Project folders” have the white ableton icon.
So please try this:
-load your set
-save your set to e.g. the desktop (into the LiveSets folder) by using “save live set as”
-use the “collect all and save” function to include all samples into the “Project folder”
-do this with each set!
-transfer the project folder via network or USB stick over to your other computer
Note: if you are using the function “collect all and save” you need to make sure that you have saved the set before into a dedicated project folder.