Export only sounds you used?

Is there a way to export only the sounds that you've used?

Lets say I load a pre-made group in group A, and I use 7 of the sounds across any number of patterns and scenes. I do the same in group B but I only use 3 from B.

Currently when I export by sound, I get 32 wav files, even though I've only used 10 of the sounds.

Is there a way to avoid that? it's hard to go through each sound and be absolutely certain I didn't use it anywhere in any pattern in any scene, but it's also annoying to have to drag every single wav file into my daw to see if it's empty or not. the file sizes seem to be the same regardless if there's audio in the wav or not.

 

Unchecked the boxes next to the sounds you don’t want to export
Goto export - select source= sounds
Uncheck sounds not used then export

 

Sure, that's an option. I could also just delete the sounds that aren't being used from the groups in the first place.

The issue that I'm running into is that I don't know which sounds I'm using or not lol. At this point, I'm using a lot of the pre-assembled groups that come with the NI expansions, but I'll only end up using 3 to 6 sounds out of each one. Once you get 4 or 5 groups and a bunch of different patterns and scenes going, it's hard to remember which sounds you actually used or not. And then flipping through each pattern per group is tough too.

If I have 8 patterns on group A, and I only use sound 5 on pattern 6 but not on any of the other patterns, maybe I accidentally delete sound 5 because I forgot I saw it on pattern 6. Now it's gone, and my arrangement is missing something, and I don't even know what it was.

It's the same problem when you go to check or uncheck sounds to export. If that shows a list of every single sound in my project, I don't know which sounds I'm actually using.

It would be nice if Maschine knew "this sound has zero events in any pattern in this entire project, I won't export it because there's nothing to export."

 

I get you , kinda like where you save with samples and check delete unused samples , but obviously for export

 

This is something that's always bugged me too... I'm afraid I don't have any better workaround than has already been suggested though..

 

same here. I actually export everything as wavs to ableton and when I'm finished mixing there, I save the whole project without unused samples in ableton.

Would be nice to have that option in Maschine too though.

 

Regarding your workflow, you can color code the sounds you use...

 

I'll look into that - thanks

 

+1 to ad this feature!!! It's near the top of my list of things that drive me crazy using Maschine.