Instruction Manual

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Importing Music and Sound
Recording
Importing Audio CD Tracks
Importing Material from Another SONAR Project
Importing MIDI Files
Importing Audio Files
SONAR lets you insert digital audio information into any track of a project. If
the audio file you are importing is in stereo, then it can be imported into a
single stereo track, a pair of mono tracks or a single mono track.
The File-Import-Audio command supports the following digital audio file
types:
• Wave (extension .wav)
• MPEG (extensions .
MPEG, .MPG, .MP2, and .MP3)
• Apple AIFF (extensions .
AIF and .AIFF)
• Active Streaming (extension .
ASF)
• Next/Sun (extensions .
AU and .SND)
The sampling rate and bit depth for a project is set based on your default
settings in the Audio Options dialog. If the sampling rate from the Wave file
does not match the sampling rate in your project, then it will be converted to
the current project’s sampling rate and bit depth.
To Import an Audio File
1. Set the Now time and current track to indicate where the audio should
be placed.
2. Choose File-Import-Audio to display the Open dialog box.
3. Choose the audio file you want to import. SONAR displays information
about the file at the bottom of the dialog box.
4. Click Play to listen to the audio file before importing.
5. If the new file is stereo, check the Stereo Split option if you want to
insert the file into two separate tracks.
6. Click Open.
SONAR loads the audio data from the audio file and places it in the selected
track at the Now time.
Broadcast Wave Files
Broadcast Wave files are wave files with some additional information stored
in them. Broadcast Wave files have the following information: