Hello Misterioso, >misterioso270@yahoo.com wrote: >How do you composers/songwriters go about having a logical order >to such chaos Since I don't have a crystal ball that tells me where I'm going with a song/tune, the following helps: *I consider each song/tune a "project," call it for instance, "Frodo." *At the start I make a folder labelled Frodo *I make folders within this folder: Frodo Audio Files (or just Frodo-Aud) Frodo Songs (Logic documents) Frodo guides (audio files I use for inspiration/example if necessary) *Within the big folder I put a text document "Frodo Notes" containing the brief, lyrics, ideas, budget etc. *Within the Frodo songs folder I start my project with "Frodo Song 01" Then, whenever I take something out or make a hair-pin turn (as it were) I "save as" Frodo Song 02 etc. In the text document I keep a description of each song--that is each Logic document. This way, I can skip back to any song and go along another path, for instance: ...Frodo Song 08 is 05 with strings.... Hope this makes sense and is somewhat helpful. Regards, -- WILLIAM HAUBRICH HAUBRICHMUSIC@iafrica.com