Is it possible to drag a sample in to the browser in ableton and have it saved as a .wav and not a .alc file that points to a .wav? I would like to be able to access my sample library in other programs and have it be organized. It also seems to take a really long time for my computer to save files in the browser this way. Is there maybe a better program for chopping up and saving samples?

 

It's taking a while to save the .alc because it's saving a reference to the original sample as well as FX and channel settings for that clip.

Resample, record, freeze & flatten; basically render the clip as audio. You don't need to drag to the browser as Live saves a copy of every piece of audio in the Current Project folder under PLACES. You can also right-click the audio clip and 'Show in Explorer' to view these audio files. I guess you could keep this folder open and move certain files out but this seems redundant to me because when you save your project, all your audio samples are saved very neatly in categorized folders: Processed (Consolidated/Crop) and Recorded.

*If you drag audio out of Live and onto your desktop it automatically creates a new WAV file.

 

Last edited: Jan 27, 2017

Ah, perfect. Just drag them in to folders. Can't believe I didn't try that.

And it's because I'm not saving these projects. I'm just saving samples organized into folders like kick, clap, snare, hat

Thank you for the reply

 

That's interesting. I knew you could drag and drop from Live to the desktop and it would create a wav. I never actually tried to use that wav file in any other program.

I've always used the samples located in the Current Project folder in Places like I described above:


If you use Show in Explorer you can view all project samples in Windows File Explorer and these samples work anywhere.