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#1928454 - 04/17/08 10:39 AM Importing files from Sonar to Pro Tools
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The band I just joined has some unfinished tracks in a guy's home studio that would be quick and easy to finish. we need some finished works for a demo ASAP, as we have interest from the festival circuit, but they want a demo. One of our new members has Pro Tools and expertise enough with it to make the task easy, and free of cost, which the original studio is not.

The problem is that the tracks were recorded in Sonar 6, not Pro Tools. Can anybody tell me a way to import the trax in a Pro Tools-compatible format? Would it work to do a stereo submix of the existing tracks to CD, as if they were finished songs, and load them into Pro Tools that way? Could we do sub mixes of the individual existing tracks and then load & synch them up in Pro Tools? Any other suggestions?

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#1928470 - 04/17/08 11:08 AM Re: Importing files from Sonar to Pro Tools [Re: Picker]
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Yeah, the simple thing to do is ...just export your individual tracks as standard WAV or AIFF files.
If you export each track from its beginning "0"...then all you have to do in PT is line up their beginnings...and all will be in sync. \:\)
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#1930476 - 04/22/08 01:09 AM Re: Importing files from Sonar to Pro Tools [Re: miroslav]
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In case that wasn't clear enough...

each track, no matter how short or long the audio might be on that track, needs to be saved as a wave file, from the begining of the song. Most every audio software provides for this, and it is the standard and recommended exchange method. (though not the only one...just the only one that you can count on to always work.)

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#1931063 - 04/23/08 06:51 AM Re: Importing files from Sonar to Pro Tools [Re: Bill@Welcome Home Studios]
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If Sonar records BWF, then you do not need to export each track from 00:00:00. It makes tracks with punchins and multiple regions easier, but if you have tracks that have one region it does not need to be exported from start to finish of song. Simply use spot mode in Protools to place the files in their correct time position.

Make sure the PT session is the same bit depth and sample rate as the files from Sonar. Otherwise PT will have to convert them, not necessarily a bad thing, but time and space consuming.

We get sessions from all different DAW's all the time and import to PT. So long as the files are .wav or .AIFF there's no issue.
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