quick newbie question

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scotsman1

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Pretty new to cakewalk sonar 4 but i'm finding the basics a lot easier
than expected but one little things got me.
I load in a guitar track the add drums over it and it's sounding good,
how do i save both to wave files and how do you convert to mp3.
Is it File-save as? please help with this simple newbie question.

thanks
 
scotsman1 said:
Pretty new to cakewalk sonar 4 but i'm finding the basics a lot easier
than expected but one little things got me.
I load in a guitar track the add drums over it and it's sounding good,
how do i save both to wave files and how do you convert to mp3.
Is it File-save as? please help with this simple newbie question.

thanks
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Not sure what you are asking. Why do you want to save them BOTH to wave files. Normally you would just create a single wave file of the mix (drums and guitar).

To do that it's File > Export > Audio.

Sonar does not include an .mp3 encoder (except possibly a 30-day trial version). Normally it is just as easy to take the exported wave file, and use a freeware .mp3 converter to create your .mp3 files.
 
Check some of the options you have chosen in the export dialogue box.

The format should be stereo file, and the separation should be all main outs to a single mix.


BTW, if you do have the 30-day trial mp3 encoder, you can create an mp3 from the export dialogue by changing file type from RIFF Wave to mp3. Of course, you can only do that for 30 days, or until you buy the encoder. :)
 
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: 2 tracks are saved in cakewalk one drums one the song, i think whats holding me up is saving the 2 clips as 1 clip then export
audio, how do i add drums over a track then save the 2 together, well
i kknow how to add drums it's saving as one thats my problem.

All in all i'm finding it good to work with and this is my first problem thats
taking me ages to solve but i know the answer is facing me.
 
scotsman1 said:
got it, thanks for the help :)
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Great.

What exporting does is to take how ever many tracks you have in the song in Sonar (2, 3, or 30, or 50) and mixes them down to a single, stereo wave file.

You can mix them down to a single track within Sonar, but there is usually no need to do so,
 
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