hello all
Anyone knows the best (easiest) way to convert my many existing Sonar projects from 44.1k/16bit to 48k/24bit?

much obliged

the only way i know how to do it is to bounce the tracks out and then reimport them...

jeff

Its useless and a waste of disk space and a waste of CPU to convert projects that where originally recorded at 44/16 to anything higher as far as sample rates go.
What do you expect to happen when you upsample them? It wont sound any better and youll just eat disk space

studio24


the only way i know how to do it is to bounce the tracks out and then reimport them...

jeff

Jeff the thing is I have A LOT of midi events, punched audio bits and up to 100 channels in every project (and I have a bunch of those).
I noticed changing bit depth was very easy (yes I know, I will re-record later), but I was wondering if there's a way to change the sample rate like that as well (or maybe some workaround)

CJaysMusic


Its useless and a waste of disk space and a waste of CPU to convert projects that where originally recorded at 44/16 to anything higher as far as sample rates go.
What do you expect to happen when you upsample them? It wont sound any better and youll just eat disk space

Hello CJays I just want to re-record what's already there and be able to record with better quality from now on

The only way is to export each track one by one and import them back into a new 96khz/24bit project
Thats the only way
Cj

A long time ago, I converted a project "in-place" using SoundFourge to convert the
clips in the audio folder. That worked .. but that was at least 5 years go and many
versions of Sonar ago.

If you go this route, make a copy of your project.


Protools has a command File->Save Copy In... that lets you convert the
bitrate and sample depth ... maybe Sonar will implement something like this.

jeff

Rename the audio folder to '96'
Use your favourite batch converter to convert all the audio files to 48kHz and save them with the same file names in a folder called '48'
Open the project, it will ask where the audio has gone
Tell it to use the audio in the '48' folder.

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Why don't you try an external wave editor that supports batch processing. Make a backup copy of your audio data, use the wav editor to change everything to the new sample rate and bit depth, change Cakewalk to use those new settings and then futz with a backed up copy of the original project file to see if you can make it happen.

Please note I have never done this, so I have no idea if it would work but there has to be an easier way than importing everything a track at a time.

CJ - You are wrong to state that there is no advantage to converting files to a higher sample rate. If you are using plugins that do not internally upsample, then using them with converted files at a higher sample rate will give better/cleaner output from those plugins.

Ciao,

Q.

I use Sound forge to batch process for changing sample rate of files. Works well.

There is no reason to change the bit depth of already recorded files for use in Sonar. Changing them to a higher bit depth will not make those files any better then they already are. Sonar can have different bit depth files in a project with no issues. Sample rate is a different story.

In Sonar you can set it so it will import wav files at a bit depth you want.

This is found under Global Options Audio Data.