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bitwig / dawproject

Open exchange format for DAWs
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Feature request: external samples #72

Closed jneen closed 7 months ago

jneen commented 7 months ago

Hi there!

This is a super cool project, which I am using to help organize the mastering process of massive collabs. To that end, I find myself needing to generate projects with clips laid out in a specific way, and one kind of painful step that I'm running into is the need to copy every track (approx. 4 hours of audio over 75 files) into the zip container before I can open it with Bitwig.

Is there a way to reference external files and/or import an xml-only dawproject?

Thanks! jneen

jneen commented 7 months ago

I'm also finding the need to programmatically read data about the project, which I used to do with Ableton's save files - It would be nice to be able to just export the project.xml without having to once again copy 4 hours of audio into a zip container.

git-moss commented 7 months ago

The file reference has an attribute "external". Set it to true to have the file out of the ZIP.

jneen commented 7 months ago

Oh! That's a really neat feature that I must have missed.