Easy way to preview projects?

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JoeHans
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2012/08/23 06:15:53 (permalink)

Easy way to preview projects?

Hello! This might be a dumb question but is there a feature in Sonar X1 which allows you to view projects under a folder and could maybe even preview project tempos and other info? I usually record short clips when ever I have the some spare time to play guitar at home. This leads to a situation where I have dozens of one or two riff projects. I haven't been able to create a complete new song for a very long time. So if I could browse and preview the projects easily it would help me to find the riffs/song parts that could possibly match. Sorry for being a bit lazy figuring Sonar out by myself. ;)
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    samhayman
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    Re:Easy way to preview projects? 2012/08/23 06:29:52 (permalink)
    If you mostly record short clips, why don't you keep one project file only and name each individual clip? Or even on track per clip for that matter.

    Or perhaps a few project files - one for each style or sorted in BPM.

    I'm not aware of any feature in Sonar that allows you to preview a project file. You would have to open the project and play it.

    But you can preview that audio files that you record from Sonar's browser.
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    scook
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    Re:Easy way to preview projects? 2012/08/23 06:35:12 (permalink)
    Consider developing some type of discipline such as a directory naming convention, a project naming standard, adding Text files in project directories for notes, creating scratch projects that consolidate those one/two riff ideas. With a reasonable naming convention, the media browser might be sufficient to browse project clips.
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    Re:Easy way to preview projects? 2012/08/23 07:18:48 (permalink)
    If you're saving projects on an NTFS drive (which you probably will be!), right click on the file, click on the Summary tab and then Advanced - you can then add some metadata to each file (come up with your own format) which you can then view in explorer using View->Details and selecting the columns that match the fields you've completed.

    Manual but works well.
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    Re:Easy way to preview projects? 2012/08/23 07:30:12 (permalink)
    Excellent tips! This gives me a whole lot more perspective on my working methods. Each one of these are worth of trying. And of course other inputs as well are welcome.

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    Re:Easy way to preview projects? 2012/08/23 07:41:12 (permalink)
    I have a dedicated project named, somewhat unimaginatively "Ideas"

    This project consists of many little snippets of guitar or any other riff, each on their own track, some in folders where they're related.

    Just use exclusive solo to browse through them

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    Re:Easy way to preview projects? 2012/08/23 14:58:48 (permalink)
    Good ideas here.
    And yes...think about it...previewing/auditioning a project! That sure isn't an easy thing to do.
    A project may have anything from 1 to 200 tracks. I can't imagine it's possible.

    AFAIK, you can audition the individual audio files in the project audio folder, though.

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