How to Pass from ProTools to Sonar

[Jerry Greene]

Greetings, everyone, my first post! I have been a Cakewalk user since Cakewalk 3, now in Sonar 7...I have an urgent project to complete and have decided to go to a semi-pro studio and 'capture' everything, then (hopefully) pass to Sonar somehow & bring to my home studio to finalize, mix etc. The obvious problem is the incompatibility problem, so I'm researching THE BEST WAY TO TRANSFER FROM PROTOOLS/MAC OS TO SONAR/WINDOWS OS - how would you do it, if you were me? To maintain the best sound quality. Have been told by once source that .OMF files are the way, via DigiTranslator - anyone had experience with this? TIA!

[TimOBrien]

OMF (Open Media Framework) was designed specifically to pass projects from one sequencer to another.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMFI

Read the help files and manuals.....

Otherwise, you'd have to render out each track from 0:00 to end-of-song as .wav files
Starting everything at 0:00 makes everything line up properly.

[Raw-Tracks]

Originally Posted by TimOBrien

Otherwise, you'd have to render out each track from 0:00 to end-of-song as .wav files
Starting everything at 0:00 makes everything line up properly.

That would be my preferred method. Pro Tools has a function called "Consolidate". It can be used to bounce all tracks to be the full length of the project. That way they all line up at the beginning of the song. When you import the files into Sonar, just line all the files up so that start at Zero, or Bar 1 and you're good to go.

You may want to double check that the Pro Tools session is creating WAV files. It should be, that's been standard on Mac systems for a few years now. To physically transfer the files from one computer to another, use a firewire or USB drive, or burn a DVD.