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Tutorial 9 – Exporting, CD burning and
sharing
Once your SONAR project is complete, you will want to share it with the world or burn a CD. SONAR
offers many tools to help you do this. In this tutorial, we are going to explore some of the basics of these
tools.
Before we get started, let’s open one of the example audio projects included with SONAR. If you have
your own project that already contains audio, you can load that instead. However, your screen will look
different from the images in this tutorial.
1. On the File menu, click Open .
The Open dialog box appears.
2. In the Go to Folder list, select Template Files and then open the Tutorials folder.
3. Browse to the project named
SONAR_AudioDemo.cwb
and click Open to load the project.
Now that you have opened the demo project (or your own audio project), click the Play button or
press SPACEBAR listen to it. If you do not hear any audio, review the steps in Tutorial 1 to ensure
SONAR and your audio device are configured correctly.
Cakewalk Project Files are different from the audio you hear on a CD in that they are often multi-track. In
this example, you will notice that there are four audio tracks. In order to burn this mix to a CD or prepare
it for distribution, we need to export or mix it down to a stereo track.
First, we need to click
File > Export > Audio .
This will bring us to the Export Audio dialog box. This has many useful functions. Let’s explore some of
them in detail.
Note: You may have to rename the file if you saved it with the same name during Tutorial 1.