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Importing music and sound
Recording
4. Click Play to listen to the audio file before importing.
5. If the new file is stereo, check the Stereo Split option if you want to insert the file into two
separate tracks.
6. Click Open.
If the Always Import Broadcast Waves At Their Timestamp option is selected in Edit >
Preferences > File - Audio Data, the imported Broadcast Wave file appears at its timestamp on the
selected track. Otherwise, the file appears at the Now Time on the selected track.
Importing audio CD Tracks
The File > Import > Audio CD command lets you import tracks from audio CD’s into any track of a
project.
Audio tracks on a CD always have a bit depth of 16, but you can choose to import the tracks at a
higher bit depth if desired.
To import a track from an audio CD
1. Set the Now time and current track to indicate where the audio should be placed.
2. Insert an audio CD into the computer’s CD drive.
3. Choose File > Import > Audio CD to display the “Import Audio CD Tracks dialog” on page 1621
box.
4. Make sure the correct CD drive is selected in the Target Drive drop-down list.
5. Choose the audio track you want to import. SONAR displays the length and size of all audio
tracks.
6. Click Play to listen to the audio track before importing.
7. If you want to import the audio with a different bit depth than the original audio track, choose the
desired bit depth from the Import Bit Depth drop-down list.
8. Click OK.
SONAR loads the audio data from the audio CD and places it in the selected track at the Now time.
Importing material from another SONAR project
You use the Edit > Copy and Edit > Paste commands to import material from one project to another
using the Clipboard. The project that contains the material you want to import is the source project.
The project into which the material is imported is the target project.
Normally, if you copy material from several different tracks to the Clipboard, the information will be
pasted back into separate tracks. You can choose to paste all the material from the Clipboard into a
Note: When importing Broadcast Wave files, you can hold down the SHIFT key to temporarily
toggle the behavior of the Always Import Broadcast Waves At Their Timestamp global
option.