This was originally a tangent I went on while designing Procedurally Generated Symphonies

Essentially I seek to automate the export of instruments from Ableton in an automated way.

Reasoning:

Determinitive Construction

In theory, the list of supported instruments can be determined by walking all sound cues, deconstructing the names of to create the map above.

I am not too sure about walking assets for built games though.

If I don’t do that then its a workflow issue:

1. Open Ableton
2. Load desired instrument into track
3. Set each note for all supported octaves
4. Export each note as a sound file
5. Convert each note into a Sound Cue
6. Open IDE
7. Add Cue to Constructed Note Cue Map.

Again, we’re talking about 60 cues for an instrument that’s supported across 5 octaves. That’s a lot of gruntwork. Which I guess isn’t the end of the world but still, Im a lazy sot.

I wonder if there’s a way to generate code. Write some custom Editor tool that will walk a dev filepath, break out the mapping into some kind of struct or something and inject to somewhere with a .h and .cpp wrapping.