Using Reason as Batch Sample Converter

[Mr. Watts]

Hey, I’m trying to convert a bunch of 24 bit samples to 16 bit for use with my MPC2500. I drag and dropped a number of samples into Reason’s sequencer and to their own mixer channels. My plan was to just bounce all the mixer channels to a new folder, using the end marker in the sequencer to make sure they’re only about 1 or 2 seconds long. However, after bouncing the files I have found that each exported sample Wav file contains no sound and is 0 seconds long. I’ve also tried bouncing using the loop markers as well but that didn’t work either. In theory this should work right? Or is there something that I’m missing? I have double checked to make sure there are no solo’d or muted channels and that there are no “monitoring for track” buttons enabled. Anybody got any ideas? Thanks

[bitley]

You might try it in iTunes by first converting to AAC 256 or so and then from there to aiff or wav.

[jam-s]

I'd rather use audacity for batch conversion. It's got a dedicated feature for this: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/macros.html

[QVprod]

it should actually work. Just tried it to make sure, and the files do in fact list themselves as 0.00 in in preview (mac) but are 1 sec long and they have sound as expected. Are you sure your loop markers were around the audio files?