Instruction Manual

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Tutorial 7—Mixing
•MP3
• Windows Media Advanced Streaming Format
When you export a file from SONAR, you can choose to include any or all of
the effects, automation, and mute and solo settings that your project
contains.
Let’s export our project as an MP3:
1. Make sure all the tracks you want to export are unmuted and
unarchived. If you only want to export one or two tracks, it’s easier to
solo these tracks instead of muting all the others.
2. Make a time selection, if necessary. If any tracks use real-time effects
such as reverb or delay, select your whole project plus an extra
measure or two at the end so you won’t cut off the reverb “tail.”
3. Choose File-Export-Audio to display the Export Audio dialog box.
4. Select a destination folder using the Look In field.
5. Enter a file name.
6. Choose MP3 from the Files of type dropdown list.
7. In the Channel Format field, select one of the following options:
• Mono—All exported tracks are mixed down to a single mono file.
• Stereo—All exported tracks are mixed down to a single stereo file.
• Split Mono—All exported tracks are mixed down to two mono files,
left and right.
8. In the Bit Depth field, select the bit depth that you want your exported
file to use. For MP3s use 16.
9. In the Source Bus(es) field, select a sound card or sound cards from
the list. If you select more than one, you can select the Each Source to
Separate Submix checkbox to create separate files for each device
selected in the Source Bus(es) field.
10. If the Outputs of the tracks you are combining are the same (if they
have the same thing listed in their Output fields—they should in this
tutorial example), you can ignore this step. Otherwise, in the Separation
field, choose from these options:
• Each Bus to Separate Submix—if the tracks you are combining use
different buses in their Output fields, choose this option if you want
to create separate files for each different output that the tracks use.