Here’s what I did when I recently went through a similar exercise. I’m writing it here from memory and I don’t have Maschine. Also, I’m a bit of a synth nerd and TBH, sampled synth hits don’t sound usable to me, try as I might. They are, on the other hand, great raw material for further OT mangling. In my experience, the less good the source synth material is, the better it mangles. Naturally, YMMV. Same for drum loops coming off other gear Drum hits on the other hand, are another story.
The OT is my best audio recorder. I set a long Flex Recorder up at 24 bit and played individual hits into it from my other devices. In some cases I would do an octave by manipulating the transpose on the source device. The worst part about this decision is that there’s no input meter. You have to pick your battles. I used my loudest sound as a guide and played with the OT’s normalize feature to see how close I was getting. Then played with the gain until it was close enough.
You can split by hand on the OT but I didn’t.
Drag that file into Reaper, which supports 24 bit where Audacity does not.
Use Reaper’s Item Processing|Split at Transients (or select the clip, press tab, press S to split, and tab again) and adjust to the best result.
This will create individual sample clips. You may have to go in and ‘heal splits’ in some cases. Biggest gripe I had was that the very begining of some splits would be included in the end of the previous. I got this as close as I could with the settings and dealt with it later in trimming.
Select all and ctrl+alt lets you drag identical fade outs on all of the clips to get rid of the tailing artifact.
One of the items in the action menu lets you trim the silence. Search ‘silence’. This shortens the clip so that you save memory space and also makes reverses easier.
Select-All/Normalize. Or not.
Name the samples if you like - press F2. Or name the track and drag groups of like samples to dedicated tracks. This is a set-up for getting the names as close to useful as possible.
Select all (important) then Action|File:Batch Processing is the key last step. The include button adds ‘all selected clips’ to the to-do queue. There are wildcards for naming. trackName$ + clipNumber$ )or something like that) or just clipName$ if you put the time in, means that the individual files will be saved with meaningful names.
This process is designed to be efficient as much as anything. Some compromises are made in the interest of getting it done. I figured if I was too fanatical about the process, I’d never finish.
HTH,
CCQ