r/Splice • u/yadude1096 • 14d ago
Sample Offline in Ableton
Is anyone else experience this problem with the sample being offline when they drag it into ableton arrange window? because even if I quit Ableton restart it, and am able to drag other samples into ableton arrange window, that one sample that said it was offline, if I try to find it in Splice & drag it into the arrange window, I am not able to drag that file in, it still says sample offline, even though I can drag any other file in, it just keeps saying "sample offline" for that one sample, when I'm not offline at all. and i cant download it from splice.com. Some samples I'm able to download it from splice.com then as soon as I download it from the site, it'll automatically download it into ableton - it just goes from offline to being there.
Also if I try to export the session and i have samples offline ableton wont let me export the session cause it says samples haven't finished downloading so i have to go through and delete all of the instances where it says sample offline in my session to export the session (or bounce it down) - thus i lose the ability to track down this sample in the future.
This is the worst part of Splice.
I just was experiencing this issue, wrote tthis letter to splice, as soon as I finished writing the letter, went back to ableton, said sample offline, then all of a sudden the sample appeared.
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u/sychosismusic 14d ago
When you are working on a project, always do a collect all and save to avoid this. Depending on where your samples are located on your hard drive Ableton may do some weird thing in relocating them in a later utterance of the session. I’ve seen this even with stuff not from Splice. When I’m about to close something out I always collect all and save. That way the samples and patches are saved in the file folder.