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Help : Blend Sign UpLog InExploreMarketplacePluginsCred BoardHelpMake Music Together, on BlendLearn MoreJoin Blend BackupStore your projects in the deject and restore them at any time.CollaborateInvite anyone to interreact on your projects or remix them, publicly or privately.ShowcaseGain increasingly exposure as your projects rack up likes, comments and plays!DistributeBuy & sell on our democratic marketplace and reach a worldwide regulars with the Blend Label.Jump to a topic: Installing the Blend Desktop AppOpening the Blend Desktop App Your Blend Folder Publishing Projects Collect All & Save Audio Previews Stem-Only ProjectsDejectBackups Pulling & Updating ReferencingFlipsideProjectSharing Privately Unpulling a project Moved or Renamed Folder? Updating Your Profile Photo Why OnlyUnrepealableDAWs? Connecting Desktop App if registered via FacebookFeed Posts (tips, questions, requests) Flags Next to Comments Unpublishing a Project Buying and Selling on Blend Market »Berklee's Intro to Ableton Course »What is the Blend Desktop App and how do I get it?Blend's new Desktop App offers quick and secure deject backups of your music projects as well as a simple way to interreact with other Blend users. The Blend Desktop App is uniform with Mac OS, Windows and (soon) Linux.Get the Blend Desktop AppHow do I unshut the Blend Desktop App?Once you've downloaded and installed the Blend Desktop App (by double-clicking on the installer and pursuit the steps) you'll be worldly-wise to start the Blend App from your Applications (or Programs) menu. (You'll only need to do this once - the App will start automatically when you restart your computer.) Once the Desktop App is running you'll be worldly-wise to find it in your system tray. Click the tray icon to expand the App.Mac OSWindows SeeIncreasinglyTopicsWhat is my Blend folder and where can I find it? When you install the Blend Desktop App, a folder is created to which you'll save projects you'd like to publish to Blend. This is moreover where projects which you pull from Blend will appear. For quick wangle to the Blend folder, unshut the Blend Desktop App and click on the folder icon in the upper left.SeeIncreasinglyTopicsHow do I publish a project? To publish a project, save the project folder inside the Blend folder. Then, visit the My Projects page and the project should towards at the top of the list. Click the row to unshut the publishing form, fill out the relevant information and click Publish. That's it! Note: The name of the project folder will be the name of the project. You cannot transpiration this without publishing, so make sure it's correct!Since the Windows operating system does not support folder (and file) names with the pursuit special characters: \ / : ? * " | we require that you remove those notation from names of projects (folders) you'd like to publish to Blend.The pursuit screenshots show example project folders for various DAWs. Ableton Live will create a project folder for you automatically, so you can just save new projects inside the Blend folder. For other DAWs, you will need to create a new folder manually and then save the project files in that folder. Remember, each project you publish on Blend should have its own folder!Ableton LiveMaschineFL StudioLogic ProBitwig Pro ToolsCubaseNuendoGarageBandCycling74 Max SeeIncreasinglyTopicsHow do I make sure all of my project files are saved and published?Your music projects may use files which are stored outside of the project directory. For example, the project may use the library files which have come with the software, but moreover files which you previously saved elsewhere on your nonflexible drive(s). To make sure that all of the required project files are included when you publish your project to Blend, you should segregate the save operation which ensures that the samples are placid into the project folder. For Ableton Live users, this is the File > Collect All and Save option in the software. For Logic Pro users, this is the File > Project Management > Consolidate... option. Please refer to your software transmission for details or equivalent functions on other software.SeeIncreasinglyTopicsHow do I make sure my project has an audio preview? Before you publish your project, and each time you publish an update, you should export an audio file to the project folder with the filename preview. Our audio player will automatically snift this file as long as you use the name "preview", all lowercase. We recommend exporting with the pursuit settings: 16bit, 44.1 kHz. For Ableton Live and Pro Tools projects, this file should be exported to the project folder, in the same location as the .als/.ptf/.ptx file. For Logic Pro, Garageband, FL Studio, Reason and Maschine projects, create a folder for the project containing the .band/.logic/.mprj/.flp/.reason package and the preview file side-by-side. SeeIncreasinglyTopicsHow can I publish a stem-only project? If you want to publish a project without DAW file(s), create a new project folder inside Blend and create a folder inside that tabbed stems. Save the project stems inside that folder, and save the preview file inside the main project folder. It should squint like the example unelevated when you are done. You can then publish this project to your Blend profile (privately or publicly) on the My Projects page.SeeIncreasinglyTopics How can I restore a deleted project? When you publish a project on Blend, we save a reprinting for you. If you delete your local copy, or plane worse, you lose your nonflexible drive, you can restore the project from Blend:Go to your Projects page.Click on the project to expand it.Click "Restore it".SeeIncreasinglyTopicsHow do I pull & update a project? Click the 'pull' sawed-off on any project to add it to your Blend folder.Withoutmaking some changes in your DAW of choice, save all your changes in the same folder and replace the original preview file with your own. Please do not move or rename the project folder — working off the same folder will ensure that the original project creator is properly credited in each update. Note: You don't need to worry well-nigh erasing flipside Blend user's files. Making changes in the folder you pulled will not stupefy their files in any way. SeeIncreasinglyTopicsHow do I reference flipside project, for example, if I've created a second remix?If you'd like to publish a second (or third, or fourth) remix for a unrepealable project - you can. Just publish it as an original project, then add a reference using the new project's sub-menu on My Projects.Go to your Projects page.Click on the project to expand it.Click "Add Project Reference".Enter the URL of the project you'd like to reference. (This is hands washed-up by vising that project in flipside browser tab, copying its write and pasting it into this field.)SeeIncreasinglyTopicsHow can I share a project privately? When publishing a project, just click the slider to transpiration the visibility to Private. Then, enter the usernames or email addresses of people you want to invite to collaborate. Any updates they make will be private, too. You get to decide when to make the project public. Initially, Blend provides up to 2 private projects. Email us at support@blend.io to learn how you can unlock more. You can moreover get virtually the limit by making existing private projects public. (Keep in mind that you can unchangingly publish a project publicly but disable the Pull option. This may be a good option if you'd like to alimony your session private but don't mind getting feedback from other Blend users who come wideness it.SeeIncreasinglyTopicsHow do I unpull a project?To unpull a project you previously pulled:Go to your Projects page.Click on the pulled project to expand it.Select "Unpull" from the gear menu.SeeIncreasinglyTopicsI moved or renamed my project folder. Now what?For Blend to be worldly-wise to snift updates you've made to your published project, the project folder needs to remain where it was when you published the project, and the folder name needs to remain unchanged. This ways that if you've moved or renamed the project, putting it when where it was or renaming it when to the original name should fix it.SeeIncreasinglyTopicsHow do I update my profile photo?Head over to your Settings page and click on the Upload New Photo sawed-off underneath your profile image. Please make sure your photo is square, at least 500x500, and in JPG or PNG format. SeeIncreasinglyTopicsWhy only unrepealable DAWs?We're looking forward to expanding the list of supported project types very soon. As of January 2017, Blend supports Ableton Live, Pro Tools, FL Studio, Maschine, Logic Pro, Bitwig, Garageband, Reason, Cubase, Nuendo and Cycling '74 Max. If you use a variegated DAW, you can unchangingly publish your project as Stem-Only Project. Let us know what spare project formats you'd like to see supported on Blend. As of now, support for Presonus Studio One, Reaper and others is once in the works.SeeIncreasinglyTopicsHow do I log into the Blend Desktop App if I registered with Facebook?The Blend Desktop App requires that you have a Blend password so you'll need to create one.Go to Edit Profile.Assign and personize your chosen password.Use your username and the newly created password to log into the Blend Desktop App.SeeIncreasinglyTopicsWhat are Feed Posts (tips, questions, requests)?Feed posts are a new way to interact with other users on Blend. This full-length allows sharing tips and asking questions well-nigh music sonnet and production, while attaching a relevant project, as well as make uncontrived project requests. CredWorkbenchappearence unlocks this feature.One post per day, for now.Send us feedback on this full-length by emailing: support@blend.ioPosts made a by a user will towards on their profile pages as well as in the feeds of users who follow them. Soon, you'll be worldly-wise to scan categorized posts from the unshortened community. Currently the worthiness to create a new post is limited to users who have made an visitation on the Cred Board.Planea single appearence on the board, in any category, will unlock this feature. However, all logged-in users can view and scuttlebutt on posts. Check out latest collections of posts: Tips · Questions · Project RequestsSeeIncreasinglyTopicsWhat do the flags next to some comments mean? Comments entered during a publishing (or re-publishing) of a project are flagged since they indicate a project milestone. Other comments (feedback from users) are displayed without a flag. We felt that this would be simpler than having two separate threads of messages for each project.SeeIncreasinglyTopicsHow do I unpublish a project? If you just want to prevent people from pulling your project, you don't need to unpublish it. You can just edit the project and uncheck the "Allow others to pull this project" option, then click Save Changes. Your project will still be stored on Blend and backed up for you, and you won't lose the project's stats. If you really want to take a project off Blend:Go to your Projects page.Click on the pulled project to expand it.Select "Unpublish" from the gear menu.Enter UNPUBLISH in the confirmation box.Hit Submit.SeeIncreasinglyTopics Didn't find the wordplay to your question? Contact us by sending an email to support@blend.io.×Deactivate AccountPlease tell us why you've chosen to leave Blend. Your feedback is important to us and will help us modernize the platform.When you are ready to proceed, please type DEACTIVATE below:Cancel© 2018 BlendAboutLabelBlogTermsPrivacyFeedbackHelp This site uses cookies. By standing to scan the site you are like-minded to our use of cookies. Read increasingly or just dismiss this. We've updated our privacy policy. Read increasingly here.