Exporting CbB files to Studio One

Unfortunately, exporting tracks as broadcast wave files is the only method that causes least grief, but this loses VST settings, etc.

If DAWs supported a universal format, life would be great, but that is not on the horizon. Alexey (AZSlow3) would be a better hope if only we can get him to fall in love with SO

I've got Studio One 4.1 Pro and exporting wav files is the only way I've found, too.

Last year when we were all kicking the tires on alternate DAW's I fired up my copy of Cubase 5. I also later bought Mixbus for $20 and tried that.
 
So what I found worked for me. 
First thing is save my CWP as a MIDI file.
You simply open the Midi file in the other DAW. I found it harder than I expected to replace the default GM sounds with things like AD2 etc. I didn't like that I had to drag midi tracks to the new instrument tracks, but whatever. I soon sorted this out.
Then the audio was no big deal either for me as I almost always record from front to back. I can see there would be extra steps for those who chop stuff up a lot and have a 100 takes of guitar solos. Really a matter of drag and drop using a media browser directly from the CWP audio folder to a new audio track in the other DAW.
Any how the songs all sounded pretty much the same to me once I got all in place. But yes I was immediately missing Pro Channel. I found everything took longer but then I would assume that goes away as you figure out things.   
 

I've always used multiple DAWs, so here's my perspective.
 
You need to pick ONE program as the "home" DAW. For example if SO4's Harmonic Editing is the reason why you want to use it, start the project in SO4. Take it as far as you can. Then export what you have as WAV files, bring them into CbB, and do the Cakewalk-specific stuff like mix with the Pro Channel's modules (e.g., Tape Emulation, Console Emulation), apply Vocal Sync, take advantage of Mix Recall, use plug-ins or instruments that are keyed to CbB, etc.
 
Another scenario is that with projects I start and finish in CbB, I'll export all the tracks as WAV files (including automation, rendered instruments, processing - the whole ball o' wax). I then bring these into SO4's Song page for the purpose of eventually doing renders to the Project page for mastering and album assembly. However, because all the tracks are in the Song page, if while mastering I think the kick or vocal should have come up more, or the bass needs just a tiny bit more EQ, or whatever, I can do those tweaks and "re-compile" the mix in the Project page.
 
Sometimes I get pretty detailed. For example, Digital Performer has some really cool guitar processors (one is sort of like a Boss SY300). I'll export just the guitar track from CbB or SO4, do the processing, render, and send it back to its program of origin. This may sound complicated, but the more you do it, the more you end up with a smooth, functional workflow. You also become very familiar with the export menu options!
 
For more details, check out "Transferring Files to Other Hosts" in The Huge Book of Cakewalk by BandLab Tips. I'd summarize the relevant section, but it's over 2,100 words so this post would go on forever...

jlhawk
Thank you for the input everyone. I will sometimes start tracks at different times depending onthe song, so that will be challenging, but I should be able to line them back up on the other side... I had read somewhere Studio one uses a format called AFF, but I've not seen it used anywhere else... Standards would be a great thing...

All that I would add is that once you have a transfered a few songs from Sonar to S1 by exporting broadcast waves then dragging them into S1 using its file browser ( you can drag multiple tracks at once to place them on consecutive tracks, or drag using the control command to place multiple waves on a single track) then executing the 'move to origin' command in the S1 file menu to place them at their correct location on the timeline, you will find it is a farly simple process. Then just copy over any eq and vst plugin settings to the appropriate tracks and you are good to go. I have transfered over 100 large projects now. Unlike Aszlow, I have not had a single problem or crash in over a year, which I find quite extraordinary. Well worth the effort in my experience.
To be fair though, Sonar was also stable on my system and I used it happily for a very long time. Just not that stable:)
 
AAF was the succesor to OMF, which is a bit long in the tooth now and never really took off. Pro tools, logic, digital performer and Studio One all read AAF format. It is far from perfect, nowhere near universal and in all likelyhood destined to follow OMF into obscurity, but better than nothing. It seems unlikely that CbB would introduce it, but I guess you never know.

azslow3 has done a great job reading Sonar session files.
AATranslator can write the native SO .song format which means that it will convert almost anything (ProTools, OMF, AAF, etc) to Studio One but unfortunately we don't currently have the resources to invest in Sonar/CbB.
And for those that may be interested Sonar's OMF format allows stereo media to be referenced which actually contravenes the OMF specification which can cause grief for some other DAWs