tonto
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Revamping Old Cwps
Heya - Is there a means to "read" a cwp file made with an older version of Sonar in order find out what patches or soft synth settings were used?
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Re: Revamping Old Cwps
2017/11/17 11:34:30
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Only by opening the project in SONAR.
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Re: Revamping Old Cwps
2017/11/18 14:06:11
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I have the older versions ( Sonar 4 and X3 ) installed. I open the project in the one it was created in and then take screenshots of the plugin settings, save it to .jpg and then copy them manually.
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tonto
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Re: Revamping Old Cwps
2017/11/19 03:47:51
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Thats good thinking. You'd think i'd have learned some hindsight like that by now!
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Re: Revamping Old Cwps
2017/11/19 16:44:10
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☄ Helpfulby mettelus 2017/11/21 03:53:14
If i understand you correctly, you could open the old CWP and save the synth settings as a preset. It should still be a preset when you load that synth into another project.
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Re: Revamping Old Cwps
2017/11/20 06:32:46
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scook
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Re: Revamping Old Cwps
2017/11/20 13:14:34
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ProjectScople lists the plug-ins used in a project, not the plug-in settings.
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Re: Revamping Old Cwps
2017/11/21 05:57:37
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scook
ProjectScople lists the plug-ins used in a project, not the plug-in settings.
And it only lists fx, not softsynths. That's a serious omission really.
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Re: Revamping Old Cwps
2017/11/21 13:39:33
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As long as you still have the same plugins, you should be able to open even very old projects in the current version of SONAR, which has always been very good about backward compatibility.
Some years ago I ran across an old floppy disk full of Cakewalk 1.0 projects. The hard part was finding a floppy drive to read it from, but once I got them on disk I was able to open them in SONAR 8.5. Granted, those were all-MIDI projects; you might have issues with audio projects prior to SONAR 4. If your goal is to convert the old project to the newest cwp format, all you have to do is open it and save it, optionally under a new name.
Of course, if you no longer have the soft synth that you'd used in the old project, then it won't matter what version of SONAR you use to open it - there'll be no information forthcoming.
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Re: Revamping Old Cwps
2017/11/21 14:30:17
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I like opening old projects and then remixing them with the tools I have now. If no longer have the VSTi installed I will swap out for a new one and it gives the songs a new lease of life.
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Re: Revamping Old Cwps
2017/11/21 15:11:27
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I have always been able to successfully open old CWS files (some more than 10 years old) in modern versions of Sonar. As you open the file it will warn of missing softsythns and FX which you no longer have installed
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Re: Revamping Old Cwps
2017/11/21 15:32:16
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I can still open old projects from when I was using Home Studio in the early 2000's and they still work.
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