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Importing music and sound
Recording
Importing music and sound
While recording is perhaps the most common way of adding material to a SONAR project, there are
several other methods you can also use. SONAR lets you import music into a project from several
different types of digital data files, including MIDI files; audio files in Wave, MP3, AIFF, and other
formats; audio CD tracks and other SONAR project files.
See:
“Importing audio CD Tracks” on page 303
“Importing material from another SONAR project” on page 303
“Importing MIDI files” on page 306
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)
• REX (extensions .rex, .rx2, and.rcy)
• Sony Wave64 (extension .w64)
• FLAC (extension .flac)
• Sound Designer II (extension .sd2)
• Core Audio Format (extension .caf)
The sampling rate and bit depth for a project is set based on your default settings in Edit >
Preferences > Audio - Driver Settings. 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.