I can’t figure out what the difference is between Save As and Save New Version. Save As let’s me create the name and Save New Version creates it’s own with a -01, -02, -03 etc. to the end of the song and places it right inside the project folder.
Is there any other difference between them other than that?
I am essentially looking for a way to save a version of my song, that will not affect the freeze files and audio of my current project. So that I am able to go back to the total original of this moment, at any time. Is backup project the only way to do this?
“Save as” means you wish to save your project under a different name than current one in the same location. That’s a simple and usual action.
“Save new version” means you want to save the project in a new folder. This is totally different and it’s a main feature, it’s the right way to create a new location/folder for your project. As far as I remember you will be asked about files, best (and safest) will be to copy them to the new location too when asked.
I use both for different things. I use ‘Save New Version’ regularly as I make changes because it’s a v.quick shortcut key press to create a new file (I never save over an old file in case it gets corrupted, which has happened many times for me). Then gor major changes, e.g. when I’ve finished comping the vocal, I’ll use ‘Save As’ and I’ll up my own version number and add a comment (e.g. BeautifulSongTitle_31_VoxComped).
To enable me to go back to any version I have, I simply never delete anything from the Pool, and I don’t use Freeze (but in any case, I think you can opt to keep the frozen files when you unfreeze, which may give you a solution).
I move the old .cpr and .bak files into a OldVersions subdir to keep the top level tidy too.
As a final measure I also render some specific effects when I come to the mixing and turn VSTi’s (and external midi instruments) into audio files. This is so I can come back to the project many years later after countless upgrades have made it all incompatible.
But I’m sure there’s many other people doing many other different things with these tools
Save New Version is the same as Save As, but doesn’t prompt for a name- instead it adds or increments a number after the file name. Manual p. 58 for a full explanation.
