Converts Ableton Live .als files to XML as their saved. The point of this is so that you can use git with your .als files. Git is a lot more useful with line based text files than binary files.

Usage¶ ↑

gem install guard
gem install guard-live-set
cd ~/Path/To/Root/Of/Ableton/LiveSets
guard init live-set
guard

You’ll probably want to add the rb-fsevent gem and “require ‘rb-fsevent’ to the top of the Guardfile generated by ”guard init live-set“ if you’re on a Mac. If you’re not on a make read the guard docs for your OS.

To get Live to read a .xml you download:

gzip Foobar.als.xml
mv Foobar.als.xml.gz Foobar.als
open Foobar.als

Author¶ ↑

Michael Garriss <mgarriss at gmail.com>

License¶ ↑

Apache 2.0, See the file LICENSE

Copyright © 2012 Michael Garriss