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Project Song Management

The “

File > Project”

menu list four commands to manage Project Songs

1) Project Settings:

These commands determine what happens to media files when you use them or drag them

into your song:

• Copy external audio files to project folder

• Convert audio file sample rate when importing

• Copy EXS instruments to project folder

• Copy EXS samples to project folder

• Copy impulse responses to project folder

Movie files and Ultrabeat files will not be copied when opened in a Project song. You have to use the “

Consolidate”

or “

Save as Project”

command if you want to include them in the project folder

2) Clean Up

The Clean up command lists all the media files that are not

longer used in the Arrange Window and gives you the

option to delete individual files.

i.e. you loaded some audio files or Apple Loops earlier into

your Arrangement but replace them later with different

loops. Or when you looked for a special EXS piano sound

you, loaded 5 different sound in you EXS sampler before

you found the right one. All those files were copied to your

Project folder, but they are not needed to rebuild you song.

You can go ahead and delete them. You can uncheck

individual files to keep them for a later use

NOTE: review the “File Path” of the files you going to delete

to make sure they are copies sitting in your Project Folder and not some original files located somewhere on your hard drive!

3) Consolidate Project Objects

The Consolidate command lets you manage your media files

inside your Project Folder.

It acts on all the media files with a reference in your song. You

can choose to “Leave Them”, “Copy Them” or “Move Them”. The

commands are almost the same as in the “

Save as Project”

command.

i.e. when you original used the “Save as Project” command and

decided not to copy Ultrabeat samples into your Project Folder

because you didn’t plan to use Ultrabeat, but later you did, then

all the samples stayed in the original location. With the

“Consolidate” command you can bring them into the Project

Folder later.

Consolidate a Regular Song

If your song is a Project Song then all four Project commands are

available. If your song is a Regular Song

then only the “Consolidate” command is

available, the other three commands are

grayed out. (This is one way to find out if

your song acts like Regular Song or

Project Song.)

This command converts the Regular Song into a Project Song and is similar to the “Save as Project” command without the file selector box:

When you select: Consolidate” command, Logic creates a Project Folder with the same name of the song in the same directory and puts

the original song (adds the Project flag to it) with all the media files subfolders inside.

4) Rename

You can rename the Project Folder and/or the Project Song. Using this command instead of

renaming the files in the Finder keeps the Project Manager updated without rescanning the

drive. The files in the “Song Backups” folder will not be renamed!

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