playing on a different computer???

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This might sound like a dumb question but, how can i save my work on a disk then take it to another computer with cakewalk and play it on that? I tried it before but it had no sound, can you guys help me out?
 
You need to save it as a .bun file. Then transfer it to a CD.
When you said "disk" Im assuming you meant a floppy. If
you have audio in the project a floppy wont be enough. Open
the project you want to transfer. Go to File..Save as and
choose Cakewalk bundle in the drop down menu in the dialog
box that appears...choose a location for the file ..then transfer
to a CD

If it is just a midi composition..you can save it as a .wrk file
and use the sounds from the synth at the computer you
are transferring it to....providing the midi composition is
compatible with the synth you are gonna run it through...

Hope that answers your question ...
 
Jamal said:
I tried it before but it had no sound....
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You probably just put the ".wrk files" on the other computer which don't actually contain any of the audio data, so you need to also burn the "wave data folder" to a CD-R (floppy disks will probably be to small for this, because it's a lot bigger than the .wrk files) and place all of it's contains inside the "wave data folder" (inside Cakewalk) on the other computer. This is the way I do it and it works great.

I haven't used the .bun files yet, but from what I've heard, they combine all of your project information onto one file, so you will no longer have the different tracks available. When you open up the .bun file it will just be a single track with all of the previous tracks combined onto it, which makes doing any further editing on your new computer (if you plan on doing any) very difficult.

I hope this helps

-tkr
 
Ooooops, my bad!

After reading on another forum about .bun files, I fournd out that they place each separate track one right after the other onto a single track (and doesn't acually combine the sounds as I previously thought)....well like I said I haven't used the .bum files before I was just going on what I had read/heard (and apparently I hadn't heard enough). :D So if you were planning on doing any further editing on your new computer all you would have to do it cut each track and then paste it into the right location on a new track.

Hope that clears things up a little better (I know it did for me). :D

-tkr
 
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the only difference between a wrk file and a bun file is that the latter contains all the digital audio used in your project; if it's a midi project and there is no digital audio a wrk file will suffice, as elbenj said. but if you have digital audio tracks you want to save a bun file. when you open a bun file it loads your project so that it is exactly the same as when you saved it as a bun file..(it keeps your tracks separate and does not line them all up on a single track) .however if you are using plug ins, you must have them installed on the other pc if you want to continue to use them...a bun file will save your plug in settings, but it will not save the plug ins ...the same goes for the DX instruments if you are using sonar....a wrk file is the same as far as plug ins and DX instruments (though again, wrk files contain no digital audio)...
 
Do'h, wrong again....

I just decided to try the thing instead on going by what I had heard (novel idea huh?) and j is right it keeps it just the it was recorded. So I guess the line up all the tracks thing is just when you try to play it back because it's the .wav data that gets lined up, not the acual project its self. (I'll just keep trying until I get something right :D)

This is what I read before and just kinda assumed that it did the same in CW and I also seem to rember hearing that .buns combine everything one track before too, so it just seemed to make sense. But I went and tried it, so everythings all cleared up now (hopefully). ;)

Sydney said:
I tried burning the file in .bun format like you suggested and it worked, but I'm still having a problem. The .bun file consisted of 3 tracks, each different .wav files. When I listened to the CD, the 3 wav files did not play at the same time, but one after another separately. Does this have something to do with the way I burned it, or the way I have it set up in Cakewalk?
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-tkr
 
Tekker,


I read something like that around here too. And I to decided
to try it. What I was mainly concerned about was being able
to do edits later on in the project possibly with the wave files
that were already in place. I do all of my editing in Sound Forge
so I selected the tracks one by one and utilizing the tools
option and selecting Sound Forge, I found that it open the
wave files just like it would do if it were a .wrk file.

By the Tek, how did you make out on your project mishap?
 
Hey elbenj,

I finally did figure it out, it was just the regular open file (do'h, I feel so stupid :o) and there I was, looking through all the toolbars and menus looking for an import .wav function (or something similar) and I finally just clicked on the open icon and sure enough you can import .wavs, mp3s, and a ton of other files (pretty cool). And I also found out that you can just open it up from within Cake (tools menu). But for some reason it only imports a section of the track if it has been cut (split) even though I have the whole thing selected and even after combining all the clips together it still only opens up small sections of it. But on tracks that haven't been cut before it opens up the whole thing just fine. I suppose I can just export to .wav in Cake and then open it in CE, but it would be soooo nice to be able to just open it up from inside Cake without all the other hassle. :)

So any help you (or anyone else) can give on my current problem would be greatly appreciated.

-tkr

One more thing....I tried to open up a .cda file into CE (which is one of the files types that you can open) and all it did was open up a small "clicking" sound that was about a second or two long. So can you just not open up .cda files into these programs (can any of you guys do this?) or am I just doing something wrong? (and yes I did have a CD in the CD-ROM) ;)
 
Hello, is this thing on?.....tap....tap...tap.......

Can someone please help me out with the CE problem? I guess I can live with exporting the tracks to .wav in Cake then opening them in CE (but like I said, it would be nice to be able to just open it up within Cake), but I would really like to know if you can open up .cda files into a recording program (has anyone been able to do this? If so, on what program and how did you do it?). I've heard of people opening up songs off of CDs into their recording programs so they can compare their mixes to commercial songs, (which is what I want to be able to do) so is this how they did it?

Thanx in advance

-tkr
 
WOW, Tough Audience.....

Come on, I know I've heard of people here opening up songs off of CDs whithin their recording programs for referece. Can someone please tell me how they (you) do this? If you can't help with the Cake to CE thing, that's alright, I think I can live with the whole exporting to wav. in Cake thing, but I would really like to be able to import the .cda files (the file names of the songs off of a CD being played in the CD-ROM drive) for reference.

Any help at all would be very much appreciated. :)

-tkr
 
funny, i've never used one....it turns cda into wav files.....check hitsquad.com's shareware music machine for a freebie.
 
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