Normalizing multiple tracks puts everything in one massive WAV file. Why?

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2016/04/10 08:39:26 (permalink)

Normalizing multiple tracks puts everything in one massive WAV file. Why?

I record at very conservative levels and then normalize the result before getting to work.
 
Recently I have taken to marking all tracks and normalizing the lot in one go to save time.
This method creates one huge WAV file in the gigabyte size range.
 
If I do a Save As to a new Windows folder (trick to remove unused clips), all I have is this one huge file. No other files are copied. It has the name of one of the clips and with ", Edit" appended to the file name.
 
I opened it in a 3rd party editor and discovered it contains all tracks concatenated one after the other.
 
If I delete it and restart Sonar, Sonar asks me to find the files for the track clips.
 
I noticed Sonar also becomes stuttery in all its functions.
 
Why does Sonar bundle all tracks into one file? (Question more for the Bakers, I suppose...)
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    Re: Normalizing multiple tracks puts everything in one massive WAV file. Why? 2016/04/10 08:50:52 (permalink)
    I notice if I use "Create one file per clip" when I "Save As" I get the normal single file per track, not the monolithic file.
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