Reference Guide

Opening project files

Tutorial 1 – Creating, playing, and saving projects

•The Go to Folder drop-down list allows you to quickly move to commonly used folders for

project files in SONAR. Typically, you can get to your projects by selecting Project Files.

• For more detailed information about all of the options and functions in this dialog, click Help.

For this tutorial we want to open one of the sample project files that are included with SONAR.

Navigate to the Cakewalk Content folder (default location is C:\Cakewalk Content\SONAR

X1 [Producer, Studio or Essential]\Tutorial Projects\Audio Tutorial

Project) and locate the project named SONAR_AudioDemo.cwb.

You can load project files into SONAR in one of two ways:

• Select a file by clicking on it so that it is selected, then click Open.

• Double-click the file from the browsing pane.

Let’s now use one of these methods to open the project file SONAR_AudioDemo.cwb. When the

project opens, the File Information window appears. This window can be used for storing notes,

comments, credits and other helpful information about a project. For now, close File Information

window by clicking the Close button in the upper right corner of the window.

See:

“Creating a new project” on page 96

“Playing project files” on page 100

“Looping project files” on page 104

“Saving project files” on page 105

Note: If prompted to unpack the bundle, accept the default locations and click OK.