Create New Song From Existing External Audio Files

[ayampols]

In this use case, the user has a number of audio tracks that she has created on her desktop DAW, and has bounced these as individual wav files on her desktop. She wants to create a new song in MT DAW, with a track for each of the files.

Currently, the easiest and fastest way to do this, as I understand it, is to use iTunes:

1. Drag and drop all of the files into the root of the "MultiTrack Documents" folder in iTunes.
2. Create a new song in MT DAW. Open the song.
3. Under "Bins... Shared," select an audio file and select "Import Copy."
4. Close the Bins dialog.
5. Add a track.
6. Paste the audio from the clipboard into the track.
7. Rename the track to match the audio file name, which is already properly named as a result of the method in which it was created ("bounce as individual audio files" typically names files to correspond with their track labels).
8. Delete the file, now no longer needed and creating clutter, from the shared area, either from iTunes or from the "Bins... Shared" dialog window.

That's for a single audio file. Now repeat steps 3-8 for all of the other files. For a song of 8 tracks, that's (6*8) + 2 = 44 steps.

The most honest thing to say is that this specific use case is simply not supported by MT DAW. 44 steps is a workaround, if that. So this is a request to support the use case. As the software can already unzip archives natively, it should be possible to collapse this into 2, maybe 3 steps.

Thank you.