I’ve created a separate project for each song in my repertoire. This means I have 50 songs or 50 projects.
If I want to play multiple songs consecutively on stage, I would have to open and play the corresponding project for each song. That sounds very cumbersome.
How can I combine multiple projects into a single project in VST Live?
You can use Save/Load Song in the “Song”-Menue or just drag and drop it to the Song-icon in the Media Bay.The better strategy is, to create all songs in one project, which are related to the same context (eg band, performance,…) and build different setlists for gig, prehersal, etc.
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Still missing a dynamic setlist for all songs 
what you mean by “dynamic”?
We were thinking about a “From all Songs” setlist though.
What I mean/expect. In rehersal I sometimes need a song, which is not in the active setlist, which I don’t want to change, cause its the list for the new gig and we only want to play one song for fun. So I have to switch to a different setlist, often don’t know which setlist contains this song. It would be much easier to activate a setlist, which contains all songs (alphabetical sorted idealy) instead of searching a setlist with this song. At the moment I create this “all songs”-setlist manually, but thats a lot of work and mostly incosistent.
Why not have an option to deactivate the set list temporarily to show all songs and then to reactivate afterwards. In a large project a search option might be handy.
Wouldn’t even know how to do that 
In the setlist editor, all Songs are listed in the middle column. And there is a search box at the bottom of the playlist.
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Maybe set the middle column as active setlist with a button.
Same as when you open a project without a setlist?
Search from the main window would be handy at that point if you’re looking for a single song when a request is received, otherwise it could be complicated. Then switch the setlist back on and continue where you left off.
Its always bugged me that the only way back to the Project song list after activating a SetList is to reopen the Project. Or did I miss something?
When you create a project, it has a setlist, consisting of Song 1.
That was my suggestion, “Setlist from all Songs”. When you create a setlist, it becomes active, so that would show the same result.
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Was referring to an existing Project with many songs.
“Setlist from all Songs” - would that be dynamic? i.e. if a new song is added to the Project would it automatically appear in that setlist?
Only as long as that setlist is active (and sync is on)
Sounds rather convoluted
If I would like to add a song for only one event in my main setlist, this is what I would do for now:
- copy “my setlist” to something “MySetlistTemp” - from current
- find and add (move) the song to this Setlist - drag it
- activate this new setlist and activate this song - done.
A good thing could maybe be a memory position in a set list for last played song?
Also a new empty “SetListTemp” with only the additional song(s) would work, as long as a marker for “last played song” on the original setlist is invented.
That’s great if you’re not already on stage in the middle of a set.
Imagine you’re playing a wedding and the groom suddenly asks for a song that is not in the setlist but IS in your project. Your front man says “sure - we’ll play it next”. There needs to be an easy way to pick up a song and then return to where you left off.
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I agree!
And if you need more than one setlist/project - the middle windows may be improved to list all songs from all of your different sets (projects), not just the active project.
So our configuration of the band can be just “one singer”, “a duo” or up to 5 musicians.
There can be 3 versions of the same song usually in 3 different setlist or projects.
We still don’t have any good solution in VST Live for this in a live situation. We only rehearsal with it.
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My solution is not to use setlists at all and to put the spare songs at the bottom of the project with a blank “separator” song between them. Not ideal as all the songs have to be preloaded but at least that only happens once.
I think I would prefer to see a searchable box I can pop up in the main window that contains songs not in the setlist. Not sure that’s possible.
Would also like to see songs that have been played shown in a different colour in the main window.
There is a search field beneath the “All Songs” (middle) column. Find your Song and drag it into the right (current when sync’d) list.
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This works fine IF I don’t save the Project otherwise the setlist changes are permanent - not what I envisaged.
Given that VSTL thinks the Project has changed even if I quit straight after Project load I don’t think I’m the only one that allows it to save just in case I changed something I forgot about. So now there’s the rigmarole of deleting the “new” items in order to preserve the original setlist. Sure I can work from a backup copy but then I would lose changes I might want to keep. Catch 22.
@jrose How are you copying a setlist? I can’t see a copy/paste option