Script to create audio previews (Prehear) for your user loaded samples in Maschine+

shitebox9000

Hi everyone,

I created a script for MacOS that creates the .preview folder and creates .ogg file previews for your samples. You can then browse through your samples and preview them.

ffmpeg is required to do the audio conversion.
If you dont have it, install → https://brew.sh/
And then brew install ffmpeg in your terminal.

Check out https://github.com/thevolcanomanishere/maschine-plus-create-previews

Sidenote:
- How insane is it that the Maschine+ can't even preview audio files in the folder explorer?
- I found a random forum post that explained what was required to get prehear to work. Not something official from NI.
- How hasn't Native Instruments created a tool to do this for users? Why doesn't the Maschine+ not just create these previews on the box itself?

Andy Wt

Have you tried pressing SHIFT + Button 8 in BROWSER? For audio files it works perfectly, for synth presets you IMHO need .preview

D-One

Yeah, I'm confused… Anything audio should preview just fine. What wont be is anything that is not a single audio loop or one-shot, like Groups, Instrument Presets, "Sounds", Projects, etc…

ozon

As @D-One explained there’s no need for preview files for Any ne-Shots or Loops samples (wav files). And if it doesn’t work, you probably switched of Prehear as @Andy Wt indicated. Works on the M+ for all my User samples.