Copies
A copy is the song as it is now, written to a new .stab file: its notes, sounds and panes. You go on working on the original; the copy doesn’t change with it. It’s the way to keep a song as it stood before a big change, or to put it somewhere outside your library.
Saving a copy
Available on Mac and Windows. Not on Web.
This isn’t on Web.
Saving a copy
- In the song, choose Save a Copy… (⌥⇧⌘S)Save a Copy… (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S)Save a Copy… (not on Web) (the File menu—).
- Choose a name and a place: any folder, a USB drive, a synced folder.
The window stays on the original. The Export sheet’s Stab song writes the same copy, into its folder.
A copy is a song of its own, not a second file of the same song: Stab gives it its own identity, so it’s counted and kept apart from the original. Opening it is like opening any song you’re sent (Sharing a file), and without a licence or Stab Cloud, keeping it makes it one of your three free songs (Free songs).
Songs on the Mac and Windows link their recordings where they are on disk, and a copy links the same ones. Take them along when you move the copy to another computer; see Relinking recordings.
On the web
The web app keeps no files of its own, but the Export card’s Stab song downloads the song as a .stab file, to open in Stab elsewhere. A song in Stab Cloud can also be shared with a share link.
Duplicate
To copy a song into your library in one step, use Duplicate on its menu on the home or in the File menu. The duplicate opens as another song of yours; see Renaming, duplicating and deleting songs.
A song shared with you whose owner keeps it in Stab can’t be copied; see Shared songs.
| Command | Keys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Save a Copy… | ⌥⇧⌘S | the File menu |
| Command | Keys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Save a Copy… | Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S | the File menu |
Not on Web: Save a Copy….