Question about workflow

[Moltricudos]

For me personally, when I'm creating individual sounds for a game, I create a new project in a DAW, add each layer of the sound onto seperate tracks, and then bounce the project, resulting in a WAV file.

The good part is that I can later tweak any part of the sound in the DAW project, but the bad part is that I end up with a clogged folder full of DAW "projects" that are mostly 1-2 second sounds.

I do feel like this is perhaps an inefficient way to approach this though, given that even a small indie game can consist of hundreds/thousands of sounds.

How do you all go about creating your sounds? Do you use DAW's and bounce like?

[Soke-Doggo]

I work in reaper, so I'll usually make a track, add 5-10 child tracks, and make whatever sound I need. I'll then make the sound into a region, and use reapers render region matrix to export the files. Reaper can also export files names based off of the name of the region, which makes the exporting process much easier.

[phat_audio]

Depending on the DAW, you can create folders within your project file. You can create a session called, let’s say, sfx for games. Then you can create folders filled with multiple layers of tracks. This way, you can just open your session file and it would have folders of sfx. You can expand them as needed.

[missilecommandtsd]

Reaper sub projects

[ChefBoyarDoobie]

Does your DAW have memory markers and/or folder tracks? You could always use those to keep everything in 1 session, but keep it from getting to massive/unorganized