Reference Guide

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Opening project files
Tutorial 1 – Creating, playing, and saving projects
Opening project files
Next, we are going to cover how to open existing project files. There are two ways this can be done
in SONAR:Click the Open a Project button in the Quick Start dialog box that is first presented when
SONAR starts.
•Select File > Open from the menu bar across the top of SONAR’s screen.
Let’s go ahead and try one of the above methods. Either of them will bring you to the Open dialog
box as shown in the following figure. The Open dialog box functions like any other file browsing
dialog box in Microsoft Windows.
• The vertical navigation buttons let you jump to popular locations on your computer’s hard disk.
• The browsing pane lists all the project files and folders that are available in the selected folder.
•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 the options and functions in this dialog box, 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
X2 [Producer, Studio or Essential]\Tutorial Projects\Audio Tutorial
Project) and locate the project named SONAR_AudioDemo.cwb.
Note: You can open the Quick Start dialog box at any time by going to Help > Quick Start.