Reference Guide

174 Tutorial 9 – Exporting, CD burning and sharing

If you want to share your music online

SONAR features a powerful upload utility powered by the online service SoundCloud.

See:

“Uploading audio to SoundCloud” on page 174

“Troubleshooting” on page 937

Uploading audio to SoundCloud

SONAR lets you easily mix down and upload the current project directly to SoundCloud, or you can

choose to upload an existing audio file.

Cakewalk SoundCloud lets you upload one audio file at a time. Multiple audio files can be uploaded

directly from the SoundCloud web site.

SONAR checks to see if there is an active Internet connection before attempting to export and

upload files to SoundCloud.

To share the current project with SoundCloud

1. Select the audio track(s) you want to share with SoundCloud.

2. Go to File > Export > Audio to open the Export Audio dialog box.

3. In the Files of type list, select one of the following:

• SoundCloud - CD Quality. Creates a 16-bit 44.1kHz .wav file.

• SoundCloud - MP3. Creates a 256kBit/s .mp3 file.

• SoundCloud - FLAC. FLAC is a royalty-free high quality lossless audio compression codec.

Files compressed with FLAC can be 30-50% smaller than the original wav file and, unlike

MP3, there is no loss of audio quality.

4. Under Bounce Settings, select the desired settings, such as channel format, sample rate and

bit depth.

5. Enter a name in the File name box.

6. Click Export.

7. SONAR exports the selected audio to the specified format, then launches Cakewalk SoundCloud

(see “The Cakewalk SoundCloud interface” on page 928). In Cakewalk SoundCloud, the Title,

Artwork and File Location fields are pre-populated.

8. Specify the desired settings in Cakewalk SoundCloud. All tags are remembered so you don’t

have to re-enter the same information the next time you upload another song.

9. Click Share.

Tip:

By default, Cakewalk SoundCloud lets you upload either a .wav file or an .mp3 file. If you want