Cakewalk Bundle files in SONAR

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Hi - I have been out of recording for a while and so am still using CWPA 8. As a result I have my songs saved as Cakewalk Bundle files. If I were to upgrade to, say, SONAR 6, would I still be able to load and use those original Bundle files in the new application? Thanks.

malgovert
 
yes, but when you do your install of sonar 6 it will at one point ask you if you want to be able to open prior project versions. say yes.Oh, and bundles are kind of a thing of the past. A nicer way is to save all you songs in seperate project folders, one for each song. They are a lot nicer to work with and dont take forever to open. Something to think about! :)
 
I think "modern" bundle files have a .CWB extension, but I recently learned that if a project is using AudioSnap, you can't save as a bundle. So I would have to agree - copying the project folder would be a better way to do backups.
 
Is there a REAL reason to got to sonar? You can update from cake 9 to 9.3 for free from the download section of the cakewalk home site. Do a search in the cakewalk forum for pro audio & the link'll be there somewhere - I left it there a few months ago.
Go sonar if you've the money & the time to learn a new system or if you need it for collegial compatability orororor if you want all the extra bells & whistles.
 
It sounds like the project folders are a big improvement. I am a user of CW8 on one of my older PC's and I always used the bundle feature for going back and forth between that and my newer PC with sonar because CW8 tends to spread the files all over the place if you are not paying attention.
 
jmorris said:
yes, but when you do your install of sonar 6 it will at one point ask you if you want to be able to open prior project versions. say yes.Oh, and bundles are kind of a thing of the past. A nicer way is to save all you songs in seperate project folders, one for each song. They are a lot nicer to work with and dont take forever to open. Something to think about! :)
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Can these project folders exist in Cakewalk 9? :confused:
 
Starzz said:
Can these project folders exist in Cakewalk 9? :confused:
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I started rolling my own in PA8. They're just folders, you can set them up in 'Explorer. The only difference is now 'Cake has a little utillity' to set them up for ya'. Before you load a project you steer 'Global- 'Audio there, and off you go. :)
 
mixsit said:
I started rolling my own in PA8. They're just folders, you can set them up in 'Explorer. The only difference is now 'Cake has a little utillity' to set them up for ya'. Before you load a project you steer 'Global- 'Audio there, and off you go. :)
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So you just create a new folder like on your C drive, and save the project, not the bundle, to that folder? :confused:
 
Starzz said:
So you just create a new folder like on your C drive, and save the project, not the bundle, to that folder? :confused:
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The CWP's live in their normal default spot on the C' drive, audio data goes to the 'folders (what 'Cake calls 'Per Project' folders) -where ever you are storing your data. Typically the data (.wav files) like to stream from their own drive, but C' can work.
Before you switch to a different project you steer the program to look at it's own folder for that projects wav files.


Then- EVERYTHING -CWP's and data- gets backed up -to another drive, CD's, which ever.

Now you have instead of one huge file; a) a nice clean file system, and b) folders with all the individual wav's and your CWP's in them. (I say plural because I assume that each day I work on a project I'll be doing a 'save as' with the new date in the name. This is part of your 'oops, back-track' plan.
:D
 
rayc said:
Is there a REAL reason to got to sonar? You can update from cake 9 to 9.3 for free from the download section of the cakewalk home site. Do a search in the cakewalk forum for pro audio & the link'll be there somewhere - I left it there a few months ago.
Go sonar if you've the money & the time to learn a new system or if you need it for collegial compatability orororor if you want all the extra bells & whistles.
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:confused:

Using a DAW that actually makes full use of a modern OS like XP would be first on my list. Second would be full support for VST and DXi plug-ins and ASIO/WDM driver support coming in a close 3rd...

He doesn't need the full blown version of Sonar 6. Sonar Home Studio 6 does more than Pro Audio, Sonar 1,2,3 or even 4 did and costs a whopping $79 for registered Cakewalk users.
 
rayc said:
Is there a REAL reason to got to sonar? You can update from cake 9 to 9.3 for free from the download section of the cakewalk home site. Do a search in the cakewalk forum for pro audio & the link'll be there somewhere - I left it there a few months ago.
Go sonar if you've the money & the time to learn a new system or if you need it for collegial compatability orororor if you want all the extra bells & whistles.
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Sonar is more than just "bells and whistles". Upgrading to a newer app from the version of CWPA that malgovert is using, a whole bunch of possibilities become available. I'd tend to agree with brzilian's first three points.

Sonar Home Studio 6 looks like a cool app - and it would be only $79 to upgrade. Sonar 6 Studio or Pro, well we're talking much higher upgrade costs (looks like $199-399 range), as well as a decent jump to "learn", but the way they handle audio is leaps beyond CWPA.
 
warble2 said:
Sonar is more than just "bells and whistles". Upgrading to a newer app from the version of CWPA that malgovert is using, a whole bunch of possibilities become available. I'd tend to agree with brzilian's first three points.

Sonar Home Studio 6 looks like a cool app - and it would be only $79 to upgrade. Sonar 6 Studio or Pro, well we're talking much higher upgrade costs (looks like $199-399 range), as well as a decent jump to "learn", but the way they handle audio is leaps beyond CWPA.
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Could you elaborate on "leaps"? :)
 
Starzz said:
Could you elaborate on "leaps"? :)
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One leap (at least in my mind) would be the 64-bit double precision engine. This is Sonar 6 SE and PE of course, but I've noticed audio improvements from Sonar 2 to 6. I don't know what the CWPA engine consists of as I've never used CWPA, but a guess would be there is some kind of improvement in audio upgrading to a new version app. I know some will say it doesn't matter what app you use, it's all based on your hardware (of course hardware is important as well), but I've noticed clearer mixes all along the way in the upgrades to Sonar - particularily with 6.

I can't speak for Sonar HS6 as I haven't used that app.

Another would be the handling of plug-ins (in particular VST's and VSTi's).

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At least my old PA9 came with an mp3 converter. :o

My soundcard doesn't have any XP drivers. It's a Gadget Labs 8 channel. It's a good soundcard, but it uses Millenium. I think somebody created the XP drivers, but I don't feel like going through all the hassles.
 
Starzz said:
At least my old PA9 came with an mp3 converter. :o
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And?

There are at least half a dozen free encoders out there. Heck, both Windows Media Player and iTunes work just fine as MP3 encoders.
 
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