CAKEWALK sonar x3, Reference Manual

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Mixing
Preparing to create an Audio CD
Bouncing/freezing with sidechain plug-ins
Sidechain inputs are not automatically included when you bounce a selection. If you want to bounce
the output of a single track that contains a sidechain plug-in, the easiest solution is to also select
all
tracks that contribute to the plug-in’s sidechain input, and do a bounce with Fast Bounce disabled
and the Source Category set to “Tracks”.
See:
“Sidechaining” on page 923
“External Insert plug-in” on page 926
“Bouncing tracks” on page 958
“Bouncing to clips” on page 835
Preparing to create an Audio CD
You can create an audio CD from any wave file or files (extension .wav) of up to either 74 or 80
minutes (depending on the recordable CD media you have). If your projects are audio only, you can
simply mix down to a stereo wave file. If your projects contain MIDI, you must first convert the MIDI
tracks to audio tracks. Once you have all the stereo wave files you want to include on your CD, you
are ready to burn a CD. Use the
Utilities > Burn Audio CD command to burn your tracks to an
audio CD.
For step-by-step procedures:
“To export audio to Wave file format” on page 964
“Converting MIDI to audio” on page 887
To burn audio tracks to an audio CD
1. Make sure the tracks you want to burn to CD have been saved as 16-bit, 44,100 Hz, stereo
Wave (.wav) files.
2. Insert a blank CD-R disc in the destination drive.
3. Choose Utilities > Burn Audio CD to open the Audio CD Burner dialog box.
4. Select a destination CD writing drive using the Target Drive drop-down list.
5. Click Add Track to locate and import the audio Wave files you want to burn to CD.
6. Place the tracks in the desired order by using the Move Up and Move Down buttons.
7. Click Burn CD .
SONAR verifies, performs a layout of the tracks and writes the current track list to CD medium in the
selected drive. After the disk is completed, the disk is ejected from the drive.
Note: Freezing a track with sidechain inputs will not include the sidechain input. If you need to
free up CPU on a track that includes a sidechain, use the bounce command with all sidechain
sources explicitly selected in the mix.