Exporting DAW Files to Sonar 2

[Newbie-Doo]

My music minister at church borrowed a Yamaha AW4416 to do some recording and has to give it back in a couple of days.

We got all of the tracks recorded but the final mix needs more work so we want to export the tracks to Sonar so we can take our time.

My sound card is a Gina20. It only has SPDIF in/out and 2 Analog Inputs.

How can I get all 14-16 tracks moved over without messing up the timing?

Thanks!

[Qwerty]

Manually, track by track and then line them up.

[dachay2tnr]

Originally Posted by Newbie-Doo

How can I get all 14-16 tracks moved over without messing up the timing?

Is it possible to still put a percussion hit on all the tracks? You can use that to do the alignment after you've moved them over.

[Porter]

Doesn't that unit have a CD burner in it?

Can you burn wav files of each track individually then import into Sonar?

Just a thought..

Porter

[Newbie-Doo]

Originally Posted by Porter

Doesn't that unit have a CD burner in it?

Can you burn wav files of each track individually then import into Sonar?

Just a thought..

Porter

Yes, it does have a burner. But man...that would be a lot of CDs. I think it would be faster to use the digital in/out if I can figure out how to do it. And I shouldn't lose any signal quality that way, right?

[fraserhutch]

Originally Posted by Newbie-Doo

Yes, it does have a burner. But man...that would be a lot of CDs. I think it would be faster to use the digital in/out if I can figure out how to do it. And I shouldn't lose any signal quality that way, right?

You shouold easily be able to transfer a stereo track at a time across spdif. Get a spdif audio cable from GC or wherever, and connect it from the Yammie's spdif out to the spdif input of the Gina.

SPDIF is steros, so you can transfer two tracks at a time. Make the Yammie your digital master, and away you go.

Because it is digital, you won't lose any quality.

[Newbie-Doo]

Originally Posted by fraserhutch

You shouold easily be able to transfer a stereo track at a time across spdif. Get a spdif audio cable from GC or wherever, and connect it from the Yammie's spdif out to the spdif input of the Gina.

SPDIF is steros, so you can transfer two tracks at a time. Make the Yammie your digital master, and away you go.

Because it is digital, you won't lose any quality.

Cool! I'll let you know how that works out.

Thanks for your help!

[Newbie-Doo]

Tried the Digital in/out and hard pan left and right for two track recording, and that looks like it is going to do the trick.

Now I am just running into a little stuttering. When I turned off all the input/output drivers except the digital in and out, that seemed to help. I would like to get the bit rate and depth up as high as possible so any recommendations on bit settings or driver type to use would be appreciated.

Thanks to everyone for your advice.

[Porter]

Are you using only one sound card? I had something similar when i was recording on one card and listening to play back on another.. if you can, only use one card, or if you have to use 2, make sure you can sync them together.

Just a thought..

Porter

[Newbie-Doo]

I have two cards. A Gina20 and a Soundblaster Live, but I'm only using the gina for recording.

[Strryder]

Originally Posted by Newbie-Doo

Tried the Digital in/out and hard pan left and right for two track recording, and that looks like it is going to do the trick.

Now I am just running into a little stuttering. When I turned off all the input/output drivers except the digital in and out, that seemed to help. I would like to get the bit rate and depth up as high as possible so any recommendations on bit settings or driver type to use would be appreciated.

Thanks to everyone for your advice.

If you are using spdif for the transfer I think you should set the sample rate and bit depth for the project the same as what the Yammie has the data recorded at, if it's 16/44.1, then that's what I would use, I might be wrong, but I think that an incoming digital signal would overide whatever settings you've put on the card or setup in Sonar, and possibly cause problems if they are not the same.

[Newbie-Doo]

I changed the driver in Sonar to ASIO and that allowed me to record via the spdif at 24bit/44.1.

I didn't lose any sound quality, but I couldn't figure out how the to sync the tracks. I was getting a sync error on the DAW unit, but with no idea what I was doing I just had to be happy that I was able to record all the tracks before giving it back.

Now all i have to do is find the easiest way to sync up the tracks again and I'll be in business!