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When you’re done tweaking the mix, to make sure you don’t accidentally erase any automation data,
you can disarm any armed controls by clicking the Disarm All Automation Controls button
in the
Automation toolbar, or the red AUTO indicator that’s in the Status bar.
Exporting an MP3 File
When your project finally sounds the way you want, you can export it in any or all of several file
formats, including:
• Wave (CD format)
• MP3
• Windows Media Advanced Streaming Format
When you export a file from SONAR, you can choose to include any or all of the effects, automation, and
mute and solo settings that your project contains.
Let’s export our project as an MP3:
1. Make sure all the tracks you want to export are unmuted and unarchived. If you only want to
export one or two tracks, it’s easier to solo these tracks instead of muting all the others.
2. Make a time selection, if necessary. If any tracks use real-time effects such as reverb or delay,
select your whole project plus an extra measure or two at the end so you won’t cut off the reverb
“tail.”
3. Choose File-Export-Audio to display the Export Audio dialog box.
4. Select a destination folder using the Look In field.
5. Enter a file name.
6. Choose MP3 from the Files of type dropdown list.
7. In the Format field, select one of the following options:
• Export to Stereo File(s)—All exported tracks are mixed down to a single stereo file.
• Export to Separate Left and Right Files—All exported tracks are mixed down to two mono
files, left and right.
• Export to Mono File(s)—All exported tracks are mixed down to a single mono file.
8. In the Bit Depth field, select the bit depth that you want your exported file to use. For MP3s use
16.
9. In the Source Bus(es) field, select a sound card or sound cards from the list. If you select more than
one, you can select the Each Source to Separate Submix checkbox to create separate files for each
device selected in the Source Bus(es) field.
10. If the Outputs of the tracks you are combining are the same (if they have the same thing listed in
their Output fields—they should in this tutorial example), you can ignore this step. Otherwise, in
the Separation field, choose from these options:
• Each Bus to Separate Submix—if the tracks you are combining use different buses in their
Output fields, choose this option if you want to create separate files for each different output
that the tracks use.
• Each Main Out to Separate Submix—if the Outputs of the tracks you are combining go to
different Main Outs, choose this option to create separate files for each different Main Out
that the tracks use.