Coreysan
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How Can I export Audio track without inheriting maximum track length?
I have 10 tracks. I export the first track, and it's 5:01 long.
I select and highlight the next track to export, it's a shorter track, but it comes out 5:01 long as well.
Same for all tracks in the same project.
I look at all the resulting audio files and they are all exactly the same size in bytes.
What am I doing wrong?
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scook
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Re: How Can I export Audio track without inheriting maximum track length?
2015/01/14 21:21:04
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Exporting a track will use the longest track to determine the export length. Select the clip to export by clip length or specify a time range in addition to the track to restrict length. Time range can be set using the Select By Time, Select From/Thru or click-dragging across the timeline.
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Coreysan
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Re: How Can I export Audio track without inheriting maximum track length?
2015/01/16 00:40:03
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Thanks Scook! I'm not sure what you mean by "clip length" though. I do understand the time range principle.
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scook
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Re: How Can I export Audio track without inheriting maximum track length?
2015/01/16 01:54:41
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Rather than selecting the track which creates an export based on the longest track, selecting the clips in a track creates an export based on the length of the selected clips, ignoring the length of the tracks.
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Re: How Can I export Audio track without inheriting maximum track length?
2015/01/16 02:24:35
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Wow, I had never noticed that before. Can't think of any valid justification for this selection behavior. This is a bug and needs to be fixed imo.
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FastBikerBoy
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Re: How Can I export Audio track without inheriting maximum track length?
2015/01/16 05:07:05
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I don't think you'll find it's a bug. The export will export the length of the time selected, selecting a track selects that track for the length of the project. If you want a shorter time selection then select that as suggested by Steve.
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pjkemp
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Re: How Can I export Audio track without inheriting maximum track length?
2015/04/11 14:46:49
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I heartily second the notion that this a unexpected behavior. can anyone from cakewalk comment on why this is so? for what I am trying to do, this would seem to be a bug....
I just created another post with much the same situation... thanks for the re-direct.
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scook
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Re: How Can I export Audio track without inheriting maximum track length?
2015/04/11 15:04:47
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Re: How Can I export Audio track without inheriting maximum track length?
2015/04/11 15:07:37
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The difference in behavior logically arises from the definition of a tack vs a clip. A track should logically run the full length of the project, just as a track on a 12 track tape does not stop until the whole tape has reached the last recorded sound. If you want to move or export just a clip, you would get out the razor blade and clip the piece of tape you wanted to splice into the full tape/project. So long as you understand the difference you have full control over what you do.
post edited by slartabartfast - 2015/04/11 15:14:04
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Re: How Can I export Audio track without inheriting maximum track length?
2015/04/11 15:08:22
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The reason with the default export is to create stem files so they can be imported into any DAW and match up. If this didn't occur, exporting clips would just create chaos.
In addition to track/timeline/export dialog selections, simply dragging/dropping a clip from SONAR should render a wave file of just that clip.
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Re: How Can I export Audio track without inheriting maximum track length?
2015/04/11 15:19:26
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If the clips are as described here http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3205328, they already exist as waves and do not need to be exported unless there are effects being applied, a change in the sample rate or bit depth. They already exist in the Per-Project audio folder as wave files. Assuming per-project audio folders are in use. There is not even a need to open the project in SONAR.
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Kalle Rantaaho
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Re: How Can I export Audio track without inheriting maximum track length?
2015/04/12 10:42:59
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pjkemp
I heartily second the notion that this a unexpected behavior. can anyone from cakewalk comment on why this is so? for what I am trying to do, this would seem to be a bug....
I just created another post with much the same situation... thanks for the re-direct.
IMO this is the way it should be. AFAIK the most common reason for exporting tracks separately is to use them in other projects, maybe non-SONAR ones. In such cases the safest mode is exporting the full project length (regarding the timing in the target project). That sounds fool proof to me. And if you don't want fool proof as default, you can customize the settings to your liking. Then again, I've never had the need to export tracks separately, so it's easy for me to babble :o) EDIT: I just read the post about song-per-track-situation and possible batch-export with varying track lengths. In such a case it sure would be a useful feature.
post edited by Kalle Rantaaho - 2015/04/12 10:50:00
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Re: How Can I export Audio track without inheriting maximum track length?
2015/04/12 11:03:59
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Definitely not a bug. If you want to back up a song in a universal format that will work with any DAW, exporting each track as a WAV file that starts at the beginning of the song and ends at the end is the safest, most compatible option. I believe Sony Acid was the first program to do this, and it was greeted with much joy from Acid users because all the loops could be "flattened" into tracks you could bring into traditional DAWs for mixing etc.
As has been pointed out there are many ways to do exports. Don't forget that you can also export individual clips as time-stamped Broadcast WAV files. Then when brought into a project they will be placed on the timeline at the same place they were when they were exported.
The audio folder scook mentions is another way to have all your songs together in one place as clips.
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