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Overview

A project is a container for a track you’re working on. It carries the context that track needs — BPM, key, genre, mood, notes, and to-dos — and gathers the DAW sessions, ideas, and bounces that belong to it in one place. The assistant reads a project’s context on every message, and Recall scopes your activity to the active project, so switching projects switches the frame of reference for everything. Projects also give you a board across everything in flight, so a track is never just an untitled session buried in a folder somewhere.

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The board

Every project sits on a board, grouped by the stage it’s in. Stages run in a fixed order from first idea through to a finished master, and you move a project along as the work progresses. The board is the answer to “what am I actually in the middle of” — the tracks you started, the ones stuck in the mix, the ones ready to bounce.

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Inside a project

Open a project to its detail view, which brings together everything attached to that track:
  • Sessions — the DAW sessions that belong to the project (see DAW projects below), including which one you most recently had open.
  • Samples — the sounds used across the project’s sessions, gathered as playable rows so you can find and reuse them; anything a session references that isn’t in your library is listed separately.
  • Notes and to-dos — the same notes and checklist that travel with the project’s context.
  • Bounces — renders and reference mixes you keep against the project, so you can play back where a track was at any point without opening the DAW.
  • Open in your DAW — jump straight from a session back into the DAW that made it.

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DAW projects

Connect the folders where your DAW keeps its project files and Sample Vault imports the sessions inside them, then keeps watching those folders for new or changed sessions. Ableton Live projects are supported first; connect as many folders as you like. Once your sessions are connected, two things become possible that a folder of files can’t do on its own:
  • Fit-aware recall — Sample Vault knows the tempo and key of the session you’re working in, and the character of the sounds already in it. Recall can lean on that, so “find me something that fits” means something concrete: sounds that sit in the same tempo, key, and sonic territory as the track in front of you.
  • Reverse lookup — for any sample, see the sessions it was used in. When you’re wondering “where did I already use this,” the answer is on the sample itself.
Creating and organizing projects — the board, stages, notes, to-dos, and bounces — is free. Connecting your DAW project folders, and the session import, fit-aware recall, and reverse lookup that depend on it, is part of the paid plans. See Plans & Usage for what each plan includes. Everything here lives in your library’s local database on your machine.