CAKEWALK sonar x3, Reference Manual

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Creating a new project
Recording
To set the sampling rate and audio driver bit depth for new projects
1. Go to Edit > Preferences > Audio - Driver Settings .
2. Select a value in the Sampling Rate drop-down menu, and a value from the Audio Driver Bit
Depth drop-down menu.
3. Click OK .
The sampling rate and audio driver bit depth are saved with the project file.
Sony Wave-64 support
SONAR fully supports reading and writing to the Sony Wave-64 format, which has a limit of
8,388,608 terabytes!
SONAR only creates Wave-64 file when needed. The Wave-64 format allows an application to
dynamically switch from classic RIFF WAVE to Wave-64 format even if the data was originally
created as a RIFF wave file. SONAR detects when a file will exceed 2GB and will dynamically switch
to the new Wave-64 format.
The following table shows the maximum duration for a stereo WAVE file before we hit the 2GB limit,
as well as the max duration for a stereo Wave-64 file before we hit the 8,388,608 terabyte limit.
Note: If you are planning to move your project to a Digital Audio Tape (DAT) or to some other
media via a digital transfer, set your sampling rate and bit depth to match the target unit. For
example, use 44,100Hz/16-bit for a project that will be mastered to a CD, so that no sample rate
conversion is required.
Sample Rate Bit Depth RIFF-Wave Sony Wave-64
44,100 Hz 16 3.38 hours 14,524,080,431 days
44,100 Hz 32 1.69 hours 7,262,040,215 days
44,100 Hz 64 50.7 minutes 3,631,020,108 days
192,000 Hz 16 46 minutes 3,335,999,724 days
192,000 Hz 32 23.3 minutes 1,667,999,862 days
192,000 Hz 64 11.65 minutes 833,999,931 days
Table 32.