I have a Behringer X32 with a X-Live card. This card records multitracks to an SD card.
The file naming, format and track names are very inconvenient.
I wrote a tool to export the separate tracks with readable filenames. This is already very handy.
But every cubase session I am busy dragging those files into cubase. Cubase can only onderstand “One track“ or “Different tracks“, no combination.Is there a way that I can create an xml/csv/any file with the files to import, look some like:
I tried to manually create a cubase project, then export a track archive and use that as a template. But any modification, new track or different name cubase refuses to import
When you drag them in, you’re able to place them at the correct positions on the timeline. If you were able to do it via an XML or whatever, specifying the start-position of each WAV would probably take much longer than just using drag-and-drop.
1 have 16 tracks and (depending on the times i stopped the recordings) a lot of wav files per track.
For each track I have to ctrl-click a dozen wav files from a long list. Then drop them in cubase, click ‘One track’, wait till the import is done and then rename the track.
Cubase does understand that all files in one track are placed in order, without gaps
And that 16 times. That is annoying, boring, costs time and causes mistakes.
Cubase is professional software, so I would expect that there is a way to automate such tasks
Well, Cubase can import DAWProject files (which is XML), so technically it should be possible to convert your track listings into a DAWproject file and import that. Could be some effort, though, but maybe you can vibe code it
Cubase also can import AAF, but that looks even less fun that DAWproject…
I tried to create a simple dawproject (xml and json) and cubase imports it without compalining, but it only creates ‘Stereo in’ and ‘Stereo out’ tracks.
Doy you have any example, link?
The framework of the template track archive XML file can be used. However, the definitions of the tracks (MAudioTrackEvent) and events (MAudioEvent) must be regenerated from the properties (number, start, length…) of the actual audio files and written to the XML instead of the default data. Then the import into a Cubase project should work as expected.
