Launching today
ARMED
Version history and merging for Ableton Live projects
2 followers
Version history and merging for Ableton Live projects
2 followers
A free Mac app that keeps a version of your Live set every time a save changes the music, with a line saying what changed. Go back to any version, keep variations of a song side by side, and merge two of them. Alpha. Audio isn't versioned.
I make music with Live, and I was constantly ending up with a bunch of folders with "song v3 final FINAL.als" inside. So I made this menu bar app called ARMED. It monitors project folders and every time a save makes a change to the music, it saves a version with a line that tells you what changed (ex: reverb decay changes from 1.2 s to 2.4 s). It ignores saves that only scroll or zoom.
You can always go back to a specific version. It's easy to have different versions of a song (a dub, a radio edit, etc) next to each other. You can merge two different versions. ARMED will apply the non-conflicting changes and prompt you for conflicting changes. The history is plain git, right in your project folder, so it'll still be there even if you stop using the app.
The limits, plainly:
macOS 14 or later, Ableton Live only.
It's an alpha, from one developer.
Audio isn't versioned, only the .als, so keep your samples backed up.
It pings for updates every day and by default will send usage counters and crash reports. You can turn those off with one switch in Settings. All fields are here: armed-site.pages.dev/privacy.
It's free. I'm here all day to answer questions :)