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2018/10/15 05:37:40 (permalink)

Lost project

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Several years ago I recorded a song with multiple audio tracks in Cakewalk Sonar. Today when I was trying to dig up the old project I noticed that the project file was gone and I haven't been able to locate it again. But I have the audio files that was recorded within the project. So the question is: Is there any way that I can use the audio files without having the project file?
What I also can see is that the audio files is two long and big files over a hour long each. When I listen to them I can hear that the instruments is playing one bye one after another.
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    mettelus
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    Re: Lost project 2018/10/15 12:59:10 (permalink)
    What you are playing sounds like the guts of a *.bun file. You might get lucky and be able to rename it ".bun" and see if SONAR can unpack it.
     
    If not, you can split the audio out (the wavs are daisy-chained end-to-end inside a bun file), but would then need to re-assemble it, and the MIDI data would not be available that way. Splitting it apart will leave you with a audio jigsaw puzzle of sorts, so how easy it would be to re-assemble would depend on how well you remember it.

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    Re: Lost project 2018/10/15 13:03:22 (permalink)
    I have tried to search through all my hard drives for a *.bun file - No sucsess. Is there a way to maybe display some form of time-stamp within the wav-files?
     
    Thanks for any help:-)
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    Re: Lost project 2018/10/15 13:17:29 (permalink)
    I do not think there are time-stamps, since they would be in the bun file.
     
    Try copying those files and renaming them to *.bun, instead of *.wav and see if SONAR can unpack it for you. It sounds like the files you are listening to are the actual "bun" files with an audio extension on the end.

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    Re: Lost project 2018/10/15 14:34:09 (permalink)
    I will try that. Thank you for the great tip. Will let you know how it goes.
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    Re: Lost project 2018/10/15 16:10:59 (permalink)
    No, that did not work.
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    Re: Lost project 2018/10/15 16:21:27 (permalink)
    I have Cakewalk's Sonar Professional. I accidentally erased the Sonar project folders for al my original songs. However I found the audio files elsewhere. I've tried everything I can think of to import my Audio into a Sonar Professional project folder but nothing seems to work. Any suggestions for a solution?
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