Hello forum,

I've spent hours trying to figure out how to get the dialogue box shown (help files) below on export. Apparently there are many options, but I'm stuck with basic export options. For some projects, I'll be exporting to producers, so I'd like to export my WAV files at the same rate and depth I recorded them (24-bit, 48,000).




All I get are these options. The extra encodings do not appear at any point during the process.






Any help with this matter would be appreciated.
Thank you,


Lee.

Even when you record at 24 bits, the files will be changed to 16 bit for CD's. 

Most people convert to MP3 which is even further down the resolution scale. 

If most people can not tell the difference between a 16/44.1 wave and a 320kbs MP3, you will not hear the difference between the 24 and 16 bit wave. 

I am not trying to be flippant or minimize your question. That may or may not answer your question but for most people this is not something that matters much to the listener. I certainly don't worry about it. 

I think MC6 treats the final export a bit differently than some of the other Sonar offerings and even earlier MC programs. I believe 6 has a certain limited number of exporting presets. Some of the others do allow settings of 24/44.1 to export but I'm not 100% sure it stays at 24 bits. I would have to look into that deeper. 

I pretty much let it default to 16/44.1 since I will be converting to MP3 at some point anyway, and 16/44.1 is, as I mentioned earlier, the universal default to CD quality. 



BTW: I send stuff as wave to producers too. I've had a few things signed. The most important thing to them is the song and does it work for their use. As long as the recording is well done and fits the scene.... the quality can be rough or polished. and unless they are specifically asking for some sort of "different" format, the 16/44.1 will be what they are expecting. Several of the things I have had signed were in fact "lo-fi" recordings (intentionally). 

Hello Guitarhacker,

Thank you for your extensive reply. I think you have been honest, and gave me some confidence. For voice work, 44,100 will probably be fine.

The thing is I need to have that level of control the help files show. I will need to send my work to other studios who may want to mix down to the levels they want.  Additionally, I'll be recording voices for video as well, so 48,000 may be required.

I guess the point is, MC6 isn't delivering what's in its own help files with regards to bit depth.

I'm not sure which version this is, but it seems to have drop-down options: http://youtu.be/ky76R2kIDTA?t=16s

Maybe an external encoder will work. I tried to set up Lame for MP3s in the external encoder configuration utility, but that didn't work at all. Not even a new encoder in the export list.

Thanks again,

Lee.

What sound card or audio interface are you using? Does it support 48/24?

Hello 57Gregy,

My interface is a Lexicon Alpha. It supports 24/4800 and my audio has been recorded as that into MC6. It is being recorded and rendered at 24-bits according to the audio settings and project audio files dialogue box in MC6, and the ASIO control shows 48,000 being requested.

Thanks,

Lee.

leebut


Hello forum,

I've spent hours trying to figure out how to get the dialogue box shown (help files) below on export. Apparently there are many options, but I'm stuck with basic export options. For some projects, I'll be exporting to producers, so I'd like to export my WAV files at the same rate and depth I recorded them (24-bit, 48,000).




All I get are these options. The extra encodings do not appear at any point during the process.






Any help with this matter would be appreciated.
Thank you,


Lee.

that first window of "extra encodings" doesn't look like it comes up in MC6.  In fact I've never seen that dialog box in ANY version of MC or Sonar.  I'm not sure what that's really from.  but it doesn't work in MC6 that way apparently.  in another section of the help files of MC6 it says that you can only select presets and all presets are 16 bit 44100Hz settings.
 

 
I am pretty sure I told you in a thread the other day that you could export 24/48k.  I apologize because you can't export that rate in MC6.  In MC5 they didn't limit you to 16/44.1, but apparently in MC6 they do and I had either forgotten that or didn't know it (I think I did know it now that you bring this up, but had forgotten).
 
there may be a workaround.  MC6's raw wave files can be found on your hard drive in the C:\Cakewalk Projects\Audio Data folder (if you didn't change the default location where they're stored).  you can find the wave files there, but they'll be named differently than you might expect, so you might have to open them in windows media player and verify which ones are the ones you're looking for. 
 
sorry if I mislead you - I had forgotten they changed that export setting with MC6.

Hello Beagle,

Any gripes I have are with Cakewalk for their lack of good info on their site and their no money back guarantee in  lieu of a trial, not you. I'm partly regretting purchasing this now. 

On the Cakewalk website on the MC6 LE page I just found this:





It also states 'Professional audio  quality (24 bit)' on that page.  Cakewalk are clearly selling a product not as described.


It's crazy that a DAW will allow you to record at high rates and then force you to export at low rates. Audacity has a multitude of options, and that's Free. That MP3 trial is a farce too if you can't change anything. What's wrong with these big companies that they don't provide the basics? Mixcraft 6 has various export options, but that didn't have the level of track zoom I required.

I found the raw tracks, but they are all individual tracks. Ah, I guess I'll need a DAW to mix those (forces a grin).

I have another question to post soon about tracks.

Thanks anyway, Beagle. You were only trying to help.

All the best,

Lee.
 

I thought the next release of software was supposed to be an improvement over the previous one. MC6, in terms of exporting, is a downgrade from MC5. Why would they do that?

It's been critisized a lot. IIRC there's other feature limitations as well. It seems MC was getting "too good" in order to maintain the size of steps between different versions to lure customers to upgrade. SONAR  X1 LE and Essentials are sooo close ahead.

I'm sure it has. And it's even worse when the product doesn't even meet their own product description (post #6). I've been had. I'm off the the Better Business Bureau about it because they have misrepresented their product.