Buns---that are greater in size than a CD will hold?

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What do I do to get cwb. larger than an 80 min. cd to save?
By the way, always save as bun's ....it will save your butt later!
I'm also having problems with SonarXL 2.1 not seeing all my
dx effects. They say they aren't present on my system, but they're
there in Sound Forge and every other program. I've re-installed
CW9's fx 1, 2, and 3.....but it still can't seem to se the sterao eq.
preset. Any help will be apreciated.

Thanx
Fitz
 
You can use a file-splitting utility to break the bun file into however many smaller files you need. I use something called FileSplit from Partridge Software, costs $10 and works great. If you're savvy and don't mind working with a command-line interface you can also do it from a DOS window.

Otherwise, there's always DVD-R drives; they are down below $500 now.
 
Cakewalks FX1 and FX2 are included with Sonar 2. DON'T install them from the old installation-files. FX3 is good to go, though...

When you're installing Sonar 2, some of the effects have to be selected manually. So I think you need a reinstallation of Sonar.
 
squishing buns

I've had good success with compressing bun files using WinZip -- makes them into smaller .zip files where I've been able to fit a couple of songs worth (16 tracks or so) onto a CD. The only drawback is that it can take quite a while to make them into .zip files, even on a fast PC.

I also broke down and got a writable DVD to hold the files -- it works even better because I don't have to zip anything.

-lee-
 
You can also just copy the files as is -project and data, and spread the data files out.
I've not spread the files out (I copy to b/u drives) but I've had several times where a bun would not 'wright' at all because of 'memory' or 'disk mat be full' errors.
wayne
 
FileSplit sounds good. I just ordered it. It'll hold me until I can get
a DVD ram. I'll try and reload Sonar too. Thanks
 
are you working too hard?

if you have Sonar2 and are placing your audio into a project specific directory, why do you need to bundle it?

if you bundle it, and 5 years down the road aren't using Sonar anymore how are you going to get those tracks back?

I'd rather record the .cwp and as many wave files as I can to the first disk, then copy the rest to the 2nd disk. Just make sure to label to disks and keep them in the same CD case.
 
Well the tech-support guy told to do that. I love Sonar, and will
probably be using Cakewalk products for yrs. to come. I have
not been using pre-project folders yet. I just upgraded from cw9
and just got my old files to work. Some of them said effects not
present on my computer....which they were in S.Forge. I have
Pro Tools as well. So saving like you said would make a transefer
much easier. Also Sonar 2.1 suports OMF file import & export.
Thanks for the tip.

Fitz
 
I don't have Sonar 2, but with Sonar 1, I use removeable IDE hard drives as backup media.
 
What do you do when the removable harddrive is full?
 
Okay, smartasses... ;)

What if the backup-harddisk breaks down? :D
 
moskus said:
Okay, smartasses... ;)

What if the backup-harddisk breaks down? :D
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I'm with you there. It's scarry. Right now my projects are on the primary drives (C and audio) and the b/u drive. Almost none of the projects will fit on a CD w/o spreading, and so many say they've had mixed results with CD-Rs, so...?
Digi-safety back-up rule says, it ain't untill it's in THREE places.
I've thought about a second set of b/u drives that only stay in the machine long enough to do the b/u.
:confused:
Wayne
 
midimark1 said:
What do I do to get cwb. larger than an 80 min. cd to save?
Fitz
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I'd say you have some huge buns man!!! What are you recording that is larger than a cd??


One simple thought (what I'm best at) is that you could export several tracks as waves. paste them into another project with the same tempo and save both projects as buns. then if you had to you could recombine them later. Personaly I will sometimes just save each track as a wave file so that I know it will survive any change in software. Be sure to note the tempo on the recording as well as bit depth and sample rate.


Later

F.S.
 
I have two backup hard drives stored in different locations in the house for the project that I am working on. If you don't feel comfortable with that, increase the number of drives and increase the locations that they are stored.

I don't think that you were insinuating that the CD-R media was the ultimate back up media, but if you were. Consider this, the dye on a CD-R CAN DEGRADE with time. I have read that this can range anywhere between 5-10 years. There is no perfect backup media. A backup is supposed to be like an insurance policy against a lightning strike or a virus nailing your computer or a stupid accidental delete.
 
Re: Re: Buns---that are greater in size than a CD will hold?

Freudian Slip said:
I'd say you have some huge buns man!!! What are you recording that is larger than a cd??


One simple thought (what I'm best at) is that you could export several tracks as waves. paste them into another project with the same tempo and save both projects as buns. then if you had to you could recombine them later. Personaly I will sometimes just save each track as a wave file so that I know it will survive any change in software. Be sure to note the tempo on the recording as well as bit depth and sample rate.


Later

F.S.
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I seem to be running into the 1- 1.2 gig range often enough when you get up around 20 tracks at 24/44.
Over about 2 gigs on my system, the 'bun' process seems to start intermittently falling apart all together. -Disk full errors. There's been lots of posts where this is happening to pingers, lots of guesses as to why.:rolleyes:
Wayne
 
Ahhhhhhh!

Silly Me:eek: I still only use 16/44! I know I should make the change someday but until I get another hard drive I want to be able to work on more than 1 or 2 projects at once.



Good luck!

F.S.
 
maybe a little late, but....

I use HJSplit, freeware, http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/

Very fast & easy, and you can specify the size of the chunks.
Joining them back together again using the same 'one-click' interface.

greets, Tab
 
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