how to send files to other pro 9 users

lester paul

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I would like to send projects to the other guys in my band who also have pro audio 9. We work odd day jobs an it would help us out in the song writing process . I save a file but when i attach it and send it thier pc says it is missing some sound files ......the track pane shows the work but will not show the audio waves ....any help ...thanks
 
The person in your band with the licensed copy ;) of the software probably has the manual which will tell you to save the file as a bundle (.bun). You are probably sending just the .wrk which does not contain any audio info.
 
what r u sayin

how can u imply that we would take shortcuts to an end .......and i know nothing about napster or morpheus ....or any other kind of pirating ...............btw thanks dude
 
.......and i know nothing about napster or morpheus ....or any other kind of pirating
You may want to know about this. If you're trying to e-mail the project around, you may have a problem. A bun. full of waves can be huge. I have projects that are damn near a gig in size. A small project may be 300 megs or more. You won't be able to mail that around.
 
Yeas, as others pointed out, the project file contains the MIDI data, settings, and pointers to the audio data files. So if you move it to another computer it cannot find the data files it's looking for.

A bun file stashes the audio data in the file as well. With file compression (Monkey's Audio or WinZip) you'll get a smaller file but it's still probably going to be prohibitively big for emailing (or for uploading somewhere for downloading if both of you don't have broadband connections to the internet.

Here's an approach I just started trying and it should work for pretty much any software.

Save the MIDI tracks (if any) as a SMF (standard MIDI file). Export the audio tracks individually as MP3s. I tried the 96kbps setting and each track is very close to the original and is a little less than 1MB per minute. At these sizes you might be able to successfully email the audio files individually, depending on whether your service provider's mail server has a file size limit.

On the other end, you get the files, open the MIDI file, save it as a project, import the audio tracks (if you exported from zero to the end they should line up perfectly).
 
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