dblondin

I'd like to drop one or more audio files into a patch, have them automatically processed and then saved into a specified folder. Pipe dream?

The closest I've gotten so far is to run Max in Ableton, drag all of my sounds into one track with a Max effect loaded, flatten the track, crop the clips, open the folder they were saved to, batch rename, then convert them from 32 bit back to 16. It works but it can be a chore when having to run different processes on lots of small batches every day.

Any suggestions how one might approach this all within Max?

drag-and-drop-auto-process-and-save

Very doable, I think. There the dropfile object which would accept the dropped files and report the input paths to the files, and constructing a modified output path could be done with some sprintf tweaking.

Wow thanks. Not too complicated at all. Would the batching capability work for people that just have the Max runtime installed?

Yeah, if it's written properly, it can be run with the runtime.

Thank you so much. I got things working with a single file and I was wondering how this input list could be generated. This will save me so much pain!

Drag and Drop, Auto Process and Save