Howdy folks,
I had a client in the studio over the weekend who came in with an artist and tracked accordions for an upcoming album release. He wants to do additional tracking and final mixing at a different facility. We have several takes on each tune that he wants to comp. My question is, is there an easy way to export all the takes at once. It's a pain to have to make a new tracks and move each take to its own one and then export. I haven't found a way to include all the takes in one export.
 
Thanks!!

Just drag them to your desktop/thumb drive etc.

Thanks Jonesy, I know I can do that but I've  tracked in 24-48 and he wants the tracks 16-44.1. Not sure why he does but just dragging them means I've got to convert them outside of Sonar. Not impossible but a bit tedious.

The free version of Voxengo r8brain can batch convert from 48 to 44.1, and I think it will change bit depth as well.

You could make a new empty 44.1/16 project and drag all exported waves in there. Sonar will convert them all in one go and you can nab them from the audio folder of the new project.
EDIT: you may need to tell Sonar not to import at "original" bit depth.

Not sure if this would work but might be an interesting experiment with the Mix Recall Export function.
 
Mix Recall allows for each mix snapshot to be export in one function.
 
If MixRecall snapshots obey Take Lane Mute/Solo status or Clip Mute status then you could just go through and take a MixRecall Snapshot of each take soloed/unmuted then export all of the MixRecall snapshots.
 
That of course is completely hypothetical.
 
The easiest and and most reliable way to do this would be to:
 
1) do a SaveAs (so you aren't mangling the original project)
 
2) do a bulk clone of the track (setting the Clone dialog to create as many clones as there are takes)
 
3) go through each of the clones soloing the take lanes sequentially one at a time (T1, T2, T3, etc)
 
4) Select the tracks
 
5) Export and in the Export dialog choose the Tracks option making sure only the accordian tracks are selected
 
This will export a speparate wave for each. If they are mono source make sure you choose the mono export (default is stereo).
 
You probably already know that and the cloning is likely part of what you wanted to avoid but it shouldn't take long. It's a lot quicker than exporting one at a time.
 
Cheers.

Otherwise I would say just yank them from the audio folder but they will still be 24/48. If they are taking them to another studio it doesn't make much sense for them to want 16/44.1 and even still if they ARE indeed going to another studio those files could be converted on import to whatever the new engineer is using.
 

His machine that he is pulling them into should automatically convert them to his format - shouldn't it????

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His machine that he is pulling them into should automatically convert them to his format - shouldn't it????

Only if he has it set up to do that (it a setting in Sonar Prefs as well) but any DAW worth it's salt (and even simpler audio programs) are capable of conversion.
 
Honestly it sounds to me like the client in this case is fibbing a wee bit as to their intentions with the files... which is their right but I'm guessing they may be confused about a few things or being given faulty/misleading information by the new "engineer".
 
Meh.

Hey guys,
Thanks so much for all the responses. I believe he is going to use them along with tracks he recorded on location with a Boss standalone unit and those tracks are 16-44.1 I guess he's keeping the format the same in Cubase for this project.
 
It's not really a big deal to drag and drop into folders and do batch conversion, just time consuming and I'm a bit short on that commodity at the moment. Waaay too many irons in the fire. It would have been nice to just export them directly because there are quite a few total tracks with multiple takes. Direct export would be nice and tidy and quick. No matter, we've had enough snow melt here in Western Massachusetts over the last week so at least I can finally see out my studio window while I'm doing this!
 
Cheers,
Tommy