Gain crunch fix?

I think I know the answer to this, when bouncing to clips I find that it increases the gain, but I didn't realize this in time and it caused a couple of crunch points in a keyboard part I'd like to save. Of course, decreasing gain doesn't help, does anyone know of a way to fix a crunch in a saved track?

I hesitated to answer because of an uncertainty about what you meant by "crunch".
 
If the whole has been effected and it all sounds "crunchier" in an analog sort of crunchy distortion way then it's probably baked into the bounce.
 
If you simply clipped the stuff digitally then you can try "clip repair" which in some cases can be automated and in others requires that you hand draw smooth tops to replace the digital overs using something like the pencil tool in Sound Forge.
 
If you want to post the individual clip I'll bet a few people will look at it and offer you an opinion about possible fixes.
 
best regards,
mike

Cool, thanx Mike, I will certainly try that... although I suspect bitflipper is right. This digital stuff is new to me, so it's a learning process, coming from the analog world decades ago I just don't know what's possible. "Crunch" had always meant the "crunched sound" that comes from over peaking, just assumed it would be understood. Is it normal in Cakewalk (and other DAWs) for the "Bounce to clips" function to increase gain that much, and is it avoidable? What I've started doing is, prior to bouncing, decreasing the gain across the track, then increasing it the same about after the bounce. Seems inefficient.

It is possible to have gain associated with bouncing.
 
For example; with some pan laws bouncing from a stereo track to a mono track will result in gain of 3dB.
 
In general, SONAR is a what you hear is what you get system.
 
Another hidden gotcha is the fact that SONAR lets you adjust the hardware outputs through the driver via what most drivers call the "Main Outs". It's is best practice to leave the "Main Outs" in SONAR at "0" so that you can maintain consistency, and to set up a specific bus that you use as the "Master" output. This way you can route all your tracks and buses through a Master and control the output without actually changing the level of your hardware's gain staging. If the distortion you are hearing is happening on the hardware it is possible that you are working with inconsistent "Main Out" levels and causing a surprise in what you hear under different circumstances.
 
Those are the 2 hidden scenarios I can think of.
 
The other scenarios should be something that can be found by looking at all the gain stages until you find the oversight. Of course, it appears from your OP that that you can't really go back and look in this instance but you may want to keep this in mind the next time something like this arises.
 
It's still hard to speculate about what you did. There are probably a few other choices in the bounce dialog that can result in what you have experienced. There are choices in the export dialog that can surprise you if you don't understand the ramifications. I just don't remember off the top of my head what choices you have in bounce. In any case, any of those dialog options are labeled and as such aren't hidden issues so sooner or later you will figure out what is going on and you'll get the hang of it.
 
all the best,
mike