A straight forward newbie question but one I'm not 100% on. After you've completed a project - mixed and mastered etc, what do you do with the (in my case) Logic project? Do you leave the project in the the Music folder or do you save it elsewhere?
It may seem a silly question but in an effort to keep things clean and organised I've been savig the stems in a document folder as I have to export them to. mixer anyway. I'm then left with sometimes a couple of actual Logic project s cluttering up the Logic music folder and sometimes making quick navigation tricky.
What is your storing / backing up /labelling process for safekeeping and quick navigation on completion?
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I don't use a cloud backup service, but this would be a further step that should be done.
At least this way the finished project can be removed from my working machine, safe with the knowledge that it could be resurrected on another machine, in a different DAW at a later date.
You don't want your project to be OS, software or DAW dependant for long term storage.
Save all tracks as WAV files, which can be opened universally, and it is up to you how close this should sound to the final mix.
Each tune has its own folder/save location and I have an export folder in each for final mixes.
a manual save immediately avoids autosaving shenanigans that need to be undone.
You can also alter how it save all the dependent files to one place to keep things organised.
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