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I have finished my lovely new tune with cakewalk. I not want to make a wav file from it. Can i do this? If not do i have any option other that dubbing on to tape which kind of defeats the point
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Bilge
 
bilge said:
I have finished my lovely new tune with cakewalk. I not want to make a wav file from it. Can i do this? If not do i have any option other that dubbing on to tape which kind of defeats the point
Thanks
Bilge
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That's a bit of an enigmatic question. What do you want to do with it?

In the meantime, here are some things you can do.

You can listen to it.

You can turn the sound down and watch the cursor move across the waveform.

You can minimize or maximize the tracks.

You can zoom in and zoom out.

You can edit it (oh, sorry, you did say it was finished. Scratch that one.)

You can make a .bun file from it and mail it to your friends to impress them with your recording skills.

You can bounce it to a new track.

You can make an .mp3 from it (PA9 included an mp3 encoder, and Sonar has a 30 trial encoder).


Give me a little time and I'll think of some more. :)
 
You can make an .mp3 from it (PA9 included an mp3 encoder, and Sonar has a 30 trial encoder).
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Yeah, Mike. What's the deal with the 30-day thing? I paid good money for that software. Do they want $$ for that?
When I went to mix to mp3 the other night, I got that message. So I had to mix to a .wav and encode it in Pyro. Pretty inconvenient.
 
What's the deal with the 30-day thing? I paid good money for that software.
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Chuck, if you owned PA9, then you also "own" the mp3 encoder that came with it and have the right to use it in Sonar.

I forget the exact routine, but generally you need to try and install the mp3 encoder using the Sonar installation disk. At some point in the process you will need to tell it you have the PA9 version of the encoder and it will ask you to put your PA9 install disk into the CD drive. After it verifies that you're legit, you should have free access to the encoder without the 30 day limit

I know the above is vague, so if you have problems with it, let me know and I'll get you better instructions. The bottom line is that if you owned PA9, you're still OK.

New users to Sonar only get the 30 day trial, and have to buy the encoder for like $29.99. I wouldn't bother, since there are free encoders out there just as good.
 
agreed. There's nothing really special about the encoder. It's just as slow to encode (if not slower) than anything else. The tags are helpful, but some freeware encoders allow this as well.
 
What about me !

Sorry guys. What about my question? THe demo of Sonar apparently has no save facilty. What are my other options?
 
OH, now i get it.

you don't have the full Sonar just the demo so you can't save the work you just did. i didn't know the sonar demo did that.

you are going to have to either dub it to tape or (if this functionality works in Sonar's demo) export the individual wave files onto your harddrive.

secretly though, the wave files sonar built while you were recording (i am assuming Sonar2 and that you are referring to audio and not midi) are on your hard drive already. you just need to either export them (as stated above) or just copy them somewhere for safe keeping.

the files are located either under the folder with the same name as the name of your project, or it is under cakewalk's wavedata (it might be called 'audio' now) folder.
 
bilge - you need to be a little clearer with your questions. I don't think anyone had a clue what you were asking until your last post.

Basically I think you're SOL. That's why it's a demo. You get to try it out, but you don't get to save anything (otherwise, why buy the program).

I don't even think the demo even saves the underlying wave files. I believe they are created as temp files, and are deleted once you exit the program.

I suspect you could play it back and record it in some other digital audio recording program or record it to tape.
 
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