Keni
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New? Or did I not know? Starting project without naming first! [<ouch>!]
I was surprised the other day when I accidentally did this... I don't know when this was added/changed, but it can be very helpful as it's often hard to create a name until you hear what you've made.... ...and recording on the fly can be much faster! Thanks Bakers!
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Re: New? Or did I not know? Starting project without naming first!
September 12, 16 5:01 PM
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Hi. I believe that this feature was introduced with the "new" Start Screen. I agree that this helps when creating something new.
All the best.
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Keni
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Re: New? Or did I not know? Starting project without naming first!
September 12, 16 5:59 PM
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Thanks Zargg...
Makes sense...
I don't use the start screen so I didn't pay much attention... Show me I've gotta keep on my toes more! ;-)
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Re: New? Or did I not know? Starting project without naming first!
September 12, 16 6:02 PM
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However there are some fine points of which you should be aware, specifically, where the audio ends up. Please see the Week 110 Bonus Tip: Deciphering New Project Options from Robert E. Bone in "Friday's Tip of the Week."
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Re: New? Or did I not know? Starting project without naming first!
September 12, 16 6:05 PM
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If you normally use Per-Project Audio folders, keep in mind that audio recorded in an unnamed project will go into the Global Audio folder. - edit - CA beat me to it.
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Keni
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Re: New? Or did I not know? Starting project without naming first!
September 12, 16 8:39 PM
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Big <ouch>!
Thanks for the warning gang... I guess it'll be an update at some time, but for now I will not use this...
I know how to create a new project and extract the files into a discrete (song based) folder, but that still requires more clean-up so I will stick to the age old habit until....
Thanks again everybody!
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Re: New? Or did I not know? Starting project without naming first!
September 13, 16 5:08 AM
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☄ Helpfulby Zargg71 September 13, 16 5:43 AM
Did you check out Craig's Week 110 tip?
There are 5 ways to start a new project, some of these will dump all audio into the Global Audio Folder, others utilise the Per Project function.
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Re: New? Or did I not know? Starting project without naming first!
September 13, 16 5:53 AM
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Pror to this I used to use ctrl+n to do it.
When I had something that I felt deserved a name, I would "save as" making sure "save audio with project" was checked.
I seem to do this less and less, now. Everything gets a name, even if it's just "Before Inspiration".
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Re: New? Or did I not know? Starting project without naming first!
September 13, 16 7:49 AM
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I like to include the date in unknown song titles - "synthexperiment9_13_2016"
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Re: New? Or did I not know? Starting project without naming first!
September 13, 16 12:10 AM
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stevesweat
I like to include the date in unknown song titles - "synthexperiment9_13_2016"
So as to avoid having to come up with a name as another creative flow impediment...I always default to just the date...in most to least significant order (i.e. yyyymmdd). So, today's project would be 20160913. That way, the projects will sort in chronological order. (If I'm so wildly productive that there's more than one project in a day...it will be 20160913_0,1,etc.)
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Keni
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Re: New? Or did I not know? Starting project without naming first!
September 13, 16 1:10 PM
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Yes I did... Thanks go to Robert and thanks to you too Jonesy (sp)...
That's why I mentioned I was fortunate. My method(s) of choice always allowed the per song to persist so I was never aware of the other issues...
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Re: New? Or did I not know? Starting project without naming first!
September 13, 16 10:57 PM
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I was unaware of the changes. It's going to take some time to get up to speed. Starting with the audio data folder.....I found a lot of questionable audio files that have accumulated. When I ran the "Clean audio folder" tool, it didn't work properly and Sonar had to close down. I like dantarbill's Quick file name system as a solution for now.
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Keni
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Re: New? Or did I not know? Starting project without naming first!
September 14, 16 0:50 PM
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I never use the clean audio function.
I prefer to use the CWTools (Cwft?) that bundles with Sonar. I've been using that since it was given to us... Was
That Jamie OConnel who wrote it?
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fantini
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Re: New? Or did I not know? Starting project without naming first!
September 14, 16 2:28 AM
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I'm not familiar with CWTools. I think I've found it in Cakewalk Program files. The CWAF Tool? Thanks Keni.
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Keni
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Re: New? Or did I not know? Starting project without naming first!
September 14, 16 3:55 AM
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Yup... Give it a try.
It can be a bit "slow" scanning if you have a lot of projects, so controlling where finished projects reside out of CWAF scanned folders can save lots of unnecessary time...
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Re: New? Or did I not know? Starting project without naming first!
September 14, 16 9:06 AM
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Re: New? Or did I not know? Starting project without naming first!
September 14, 16 9:16 AM
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This existing before the new start screen. It been my default way to set up projects for a long time.
File> New> Select:
-- Blank Project --
Nothing loaded at all, no audio or anything, no project name
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