Hi all... I have some ProAudio9 bun. files that I'm trying to convert.
I tryed loading then in X3 and in Sonar 8.5.3 and I get a error message saying "can not load file".
Any thoughts on how to achive this? Thanks

open the bun in pa9, save as a normal project, then try opening that in x3?

X3 should open the bun file even if it was made  Pro Audio. Sonar 3 was the first to use cwp files Pro Audio used wrk files. 
 
 

John
X3 should open the bun file even if it was made  Pro Audio. Sonar 3 was the first to use cwp files Pro Audio used wrk files.

yeah but he said

I tryed loading then in X3 and in Sonar 8.5.3 and I get a error message saying "can not load file".

It may be corrupted. This maybe an unimportant point but Sonar really doesn't load a bun file it unpacks it. It then loads the project and its audio after they have been written to disk. If there was a problem with the system it was created on or a glitch occurred it could have been corrupted when it was made.  Back in the Pro Audio days this happened often enough that people were distrustful of bun files.  

BENT
I get a error message saying "can not load file".

Any error codes or a more complete version of the error message available? The are some threads with more info which may help.

Thanks people for your input 
 

lawp
open the bun in pa9, save as a normal project, then try opening that in x3?

 
Wow! I didn't think Pro Audio9 would run on a Windows 8-1 machine?  
 

John
It may be corrupted. This maybe an unimportant point but Sonar really doesn't load a bun file it unpacks it. It then loads the project and its audio after they have been written to disk. If there was a problem with the system it was created on or a glitch occurred it could have been corrupted when it was made.  Back in the Pro Audio days this happened often enough that people were distrustful of bun files.  

 
I very much doubt corruption is the problem because I remember checking and rechecking these files albeit a long time ago.
 

scook

BENT
I get a error message saying "can not load file".

Any error codes or a more complete version of the error message available? The are some threads with more info which may help.

 
Unfortunately not. All I can add is...
X3e stalls becomes unresponsive (turns light grey) and I have to close it using task manager
Sonar 8-5-3 just brings up a box saying "can not load file"
 
Any other thoughts?  Anyone?
 

Oh! and can anyone confirm or debunk Windows 7 or 8-1 is capable of installing ProAudio9 and is there any risk of stuffing up the machines registry or causing an unstable X3 in anyway? 

BENT
Oh! and can anyone confirm or debunk Windows 7 or 8-1 is capable of installing ProAudio9 and is there any risk of stuffing up the machines registry or causing an unstable X3 in anyway? 

I can't confirm, but you could always use a vmware machine with an older windows

I'm thinking you probably cannot install Pro 9 on W7 64 bit. But why not try it? 
 
What I just did and it worked is I installed XP 32 bit in a small  partition. I use the dual boot without issues but some like the virtual machine method better. 
But in the end this solved my issues with older software that cannot be run on W7-8. 
 
The cool thing is you boot into XP and my storage drives are all available too. 
You just have to install the old software and there you go. Beats keeping an old computer around for sure.