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Saving project files
Tutorial 1 – Creating, playing, and saving projects
Saving project files
SONAR offers you many options for saving your work. To investigate these options, click on the File
menu and choose Save As. This opens the Save As dialog. Before doing anything in this window,
the first thing you should do is select Project Files in the Go to Folder list. Even if it already says
Project Files, click it anyway.
You will notice this window looks very familiar to the Open dialog we looked at earlier in this tutorial.
The Save As dialog navigates files much in the same way as Windows does. If you would like to
read the finer points and in-depth information about using this window, click the Help button. For this
exercise, we are going to look at the different types of project files you can save with SONAR.
Take a look at the drop-down list labeled Save as type. Click the Save as type arrow to see a list of
supported file formats. Let’s look at these different files formats now:
• Normal. This is the first option listed and the most common format used for saving project files.
Choosing this will create a Cakewalk Project file with the .cwp file extension. It is important to
remember that Cakewalk Project files do not
actually store any audio data, but rather reference
audio files from where they are saved on your computer’s hard drive.
• Template. Template files are used as a starting point for new projects. Templates can store
layout information about your project, such as how many audio and MIDI tracks there are and
which Output ports they are assigned to. Detailed information about using templates can be found
in SONAR’s help topic Templ at es