Exporting audio

I've posted a couple times on this topic, but figured I'd start a thread to get some feedback on how folks are approaching this.

IMO the current export is non-intuitive. My workflow, I keep all samples in one program. In 1.6 I could load a project, go into song mode, export, separate tracks and would get an audio file for each track. Easy to import to DAW for mixing.

Since 1.7, this doesn't work this way anymore. Now, you can export separate audio tracks by program. What this tells me is that now an MPC project has to have a bunch of programs to achieve the same export result - basically a program for every track. So I have to have a kick drum on one program, a snare drum on another program, etc, etc.

But here's the thing, this can't be right. How is everyone doing this??? Or is no one exporting separate tracks for mixing anymore? With this new way of exporting separate wavs for mixing, if my song has 24 tracks, and I want 24 audio wavs for mixing, I have to have 24 programs??

Like I said, surely this can't be right... what is the best way to organize a project that allows for exporting separate wavs for mixing?

Since setting up Reaper to record everything separately I haven't had to use this feature much so didn't notice it was gone.

This is why I'm still on 1.6. I can't afford to be slowed down by that nonsense. Sorry man that sucks.

A workaround could be, set each track to each submix and even out 1&2, 2&3, 3&4, and so on, and then in the "export>as audio mixdown" window bounce each "stereo output" at a time.
I havent tried it but in theory, it should work.

Same reason I'm still sticking on 1.6 too. I have 1.8 on a "play" computer to see if I can figure it out. But looks like 1.6 may be it until they get this done a better way. This is one of the main reasons why I bought this. Transfer hardware MPCs quickly and export for DAW mixing. IMO this functinality is broken because of the new way the mixer works. Unless someone has some insight into how this could / should be done.

jsf wrote:A workaround could be, set each track to each submix and even out 1&2, 2&3, 3&4, and so on, and then in the "export>as audio mixdown" window bounce each "stereo output" at a time.
I havent tried it but in theory, it should work.

Man, thanks for the thought... but, no. That's a waste of time. Not implying your recommendation is.. saying that it's an unnecessary use of time, even for a work around. It sounds like a plausible work around though. I'd rather stay on 1.6.

I'm surprised there aren't more people complaining about this. Perhaps the number of people exporting from song mode is so small that it's not worth the time to fix this to work the logical way.

to export from song mode you have to convert song to seq go to that seq and then export separate tracks (explode) the way i do it takes a while but it works jus make sure not to watch the export pretty boring lol….

i jus wish it didn't export one track at a time should be able to do all at once separately

The way its currently implemented is extremely counterintuitive !!!

I simply want to be able to export audio as tracks (each track with its own name Kick, Snare, etc.) for easy importing into my DAW.

I have no interest in going back to tracking with beat clock or midi time code into a DAW.

elogical4now wrote:The way its currently implemented is extremely counterintuitive !!!

I simply want to be able to export audio as tracks (each track with its own name Kick, Snare, etc.) for easy importing into my DAW.

I have no interest in going back to tracking with beat clock or midi time code into a DAW.

Exactly. Whatever I have on a track should export in its own audio file. That's the logical way that music has been tracked and recorded since forever.

Eyalc wrote:

elogical4now wrote:The way its currently implemented is extremely counterintuitive !!!

I simply want to be able to export audio as tracks (each track with its own name Kick, Snare, etc.) for easy importing into my DAW.

I have no interest in going back to tracking with beat clock or midi time code into a DAW.

Exactly. Whatever I have on a track should export in its own audio file. That's the logical way that music has been tracked and recorded since forever.

+1

What you want to do is perfectly possible you just can't do it in song mode. You need to do each sequence separately

Looking like Akai is picking up some speed but I do agree, prior to 1.8, 1.6 is actually their best update to date. Song Mode export was 10x faster.. Imagine the stability and Song Mode export of 1.6 with the new feature of 1.7 and 1.8

Jenre wrote:What you want to do is perfectly possible you just can't do it in song mode. You need to do each sequence separately

that's the point.

not possible though if you have a sound that extends beyond the end of a sequence into the next sequence. simple chops that always start on the 1 and end on the 4, sure, this would be possible, but not a desirable workaround.

Hey Pete or whoever is reading this, please please please fix this. I really want to use some of those new features from 1.8, but I have to be able to export one track from my song at a time!

So 1.6 is what I'm using until this gets fixed, even if it never does get fixed.

As users, we need options. That's the most important thing Akai or any software company can give us. In general I'm tired of companies, after updates, saying, "this is the way we chop now," or "this is the way we export now. Isn't it awesome that we came up with this concept? It's going to save you so much time!"

They're so on their own nuts for coming up with these clever "shortcuts", they forget that not all users like to do things the same way. Don't assume that we do! Give us options!

The first thing is what DAW are you using to export your audio to? The DAW I use is Reason which has "Blocks" the same as the MPC has sequences. For instance, I would make a program that has all my drums in it. Once I have my drums sequenced, I would then use the explode track feature in the MPC software, and then export to a folder on my desktop. Next open Reason, set the tempo and import that exploded sequence into a "Block" in Reason. This also works with samples also. Once I have my "Blocks" I then put them in order. (ie Intro, Hook, Verse and so on) Hopefully this helps you out, if your using Reason.