Walkthrough · Recall

Before Recall

How did I get this sound?

Which version was the good one?What did I actually do last night?

A patch gets rebuilt from memory, badly. Hours vanish and nothing says where. And the changes that mattered look exactly like hours of noodling.

My Song Project8 items

song_final.als12 Mar

song_final_v2.als14 Mar

song_final_v7_REAL.als02 Apr

song_final_v7_REAL (1).als02 Apr

My Song USE THIS.als19 Apr

My Song old bass GOOD.als21 Apr

Backup/My Song [2026-04-21 231502].als21 Apr

My Song FINAL.alstoday

song_final_v7_REAL.als is a versioning strategy.

01 · Capture

Captures while you work.

Open Ableton and your project. Recall picks up where that version left off. Afterwards, read the session in order, by track, or by type.

A captured session read in order: Drum Group, Bass Main and Lead changes grouped by track with clock times, and the gaps between them

02 · Projects

It arrives already knowing your songs.

Every song you’ve worked on, found by scanning your music folder. Rename or move a file and you can relink its history.

Recall’s Projects library with the sample song, its session count and when it was last updated

03 · Timeline

Branches, like git. Sessions inside.

Every .als on one line. Go back to an older file and take it somewhere new, and a branch appears. Select a version to see its sessions and where you left off.

The version history: each .als version on a line with its session times, and the selected version’s details

04 · Report

Every number opens the changes behind it.

The Report opens on the Log, one activity chart at a time with a picker for each stretch of work. Then Project history, Device chains and Overview. Export PDF saves it as a printable document.

Log
Project history
Device chains
Overview

05 · Signature

What your sound is made of.

Recall reads the newest saved set of every project and shows the instruments, presets, drums, samples and chains you keep coming back to.

06 · Studio tools

From sessions to a release.

Organizer lays out an album, EP or single from your mixes, with waveform, loudness (LUFS) and dynamic range per mix. Planner holds the calendar and tasks. Notes is a producer notebook.

Organizer
Planner
Notes

Captured as it happens

Receipts, not a diary.

Recall doesn’t ask what you did. Every row is a change Live reported at the moment it happened. Nothing is estimated after the fact, and nothing is scored.

10:43:00 PMDrum GroupMixerVolume−2.1 → −4.8 dB

clock time, as it happenedthe track in your setthe device or controlthe parameter you movedexact values, before and after

Local-first

Unreleased music never leaves the machine.

Your projects, versions and captured changes stay on your computer. Recall reads your saved sets and never writes back to them. For pros in label sessions, that’s the point.

No accountNothing to sign up for.
Nothing uploadedNo cloud copy of your work.
Read-onlyYour .als files are never changed.

Install

Three steps, once.

01Download and open Recall.
02Let it install its Ableton script, then restart Live. It finds your User Library on its own.
03Preferences → Link, Tempo & MIDI → choose “Recall” in an empty Control Surface slot.

On for every set from then on. No Live Suite or Max needed. Updates itself in place. Step-by-step tutorial

Listening to Ableton

Tutorials