Loading and Saving Projects

Note: To distinguish from wave projects, projects in which references to the wave projects are arranged as objects were called virtual projects (*.vip) or VIPs for short. In its early days, Sequoia worked with "wave projects" (*.hdp), where the actual samples were stored in a separate sample format; only later wave files were used for this purpose. Since "wave file" can now be used identically to "wave project" except for insignificant details, for the sake of brevity we can simply speak of projects or project files for virtual projects.

Loading Projects

Load saved projects with menu File > Open > Virtual project (*.vip)..., keyboard shortcut O or this button on the top toolbar .

Projects can also be loaded from the File Manager, where you have full-text search, favorite folders and more.

The last 16 files that were opened are listed for quick opening in the menu File > Open recent files. This menu can also be opened with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Backspace. To select the file, use the arrow keys and the Enter key; you can also load the first 9 files by pressing the corresponding number.

Via menu File > More > Load project without VST plug-ins... you can load projects that use VST plug-ins that are not installed on the computer or are not compatible with Sequoia.

Saving Projects

In the menu File you will find the common commands for saving your project:

Save (keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + S): The active project is saved. If it is a newly created project that has not yet been saved, the name and save folder can be selected in a file selection dialog. By default, the name of the project and the project subfolder are used.

By default, new virtual projects are created in a project subfolder of the same name, with the current date as the default name. If you assign a different name when you save for the first time, the project subfolder will not be renamed as well, so you may not find the project again as quickly. You can manually rename the project subfolder afterwards, but we recommend that you give the project a proper name already when you create it.

If you want to keep intermediate states of your project saved in separate files, select either Save as… (keyboard shortcut: Shift + S) and use this command to save the project under a new name. This will keep the last saved state in the file with the old name and you will now continue working on the file with the new name.

Or you can use Save project copy… (keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + Alt + S) to save a copy of the project under a different name. By default, the project name is extended by the current date and time. After saving the copy, you continue working on the current project with the original name.

If you just want to give the project a different name, but you want to continue working with the same project, use Rename Project… in the menu File.

An asterisk (*) at the file name in the project docker tells you that a project has been modified and needs to be saved.

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