ioneskylab
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Upgrade from Cakewalk ProAudio 9
Hello, I am a long time user of Cakewalk, I have a bunch of project files in Cakewalk Pro Audio 9. What would be the best way to upgrade to a recent version of cakewalk/sonar. I basically want to retain the tracks in each project plus the velocity/pan/envelope settings (less concerned with the effects settings)
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John
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Re: Upgrade from Cakewalk ProAudio 9
2016/08/01 16:26:00
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You're in luck. Sonar can read Pro Audio files as native with no issues at all. So you upgrade to Sonar Platinum with no worries. WRK files are supported.
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ioneskylab
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Re: Upgrade from Cakewalk ProAudio 9
2016/08/01 16:27:42
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awesome, thanks for the quick reply, John.
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Zargg
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Re: Upgrade from Cakewalk ProAudio 9
2016/08/01 16:29:20
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Hi, and welcome to this forum. I recently opened projects made both in Cakewalk PA 9, and SONAR XL 2.2, without a problem in latest SONAR Platinum. The only issue was missing plugins. You will have to locate the audio files, to be able to use the project. (IIRC it was a single audio folder in the older versions) You could demo the new versions, but I do not believe they allow saving.
All the best.
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John
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Re: Upgrade from Cakewalk ProAudio 9
2016/08/01 16:49:26
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Right, welcome to the forum Ioneskylab. You may have a shock when you open Sonar. This forum can help you through the future shock you may experience. Sonar may be very strange to you but I strongly believe you will like it a lot once you get use to it.
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timidi
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Re: Upgrade from Cakewalk ProAudio 9
2016/08/01 19:29:50
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You will have issues with the *.wrk files. Not deal breakers, but, there will be anomalies. My advice would be to copy and paste (or export/import) the track waves into a new project (with identical tempo) in your new choice of DAW. Doing it this way seems to clean the data so to speak.
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Re: Upgrade from Cakewalk ProAudio 9
2016/08/01 19:49:06
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I have a lot of wrk files and have not had any problem with them.
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Re: Upgrade from Cakewalk ProAudio 9
2016/08/01 20:39:16
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Wow! Pro Audio 9. I hope your projects survive their transition into the 21st century. 
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timidi
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Re: Upgrade from Cakewalk ProAudio 9
2016/08/01 21:02:25
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John,
It's been awhile but, I remember something with volume offsets or something, among other weirdnesses.
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chuckebaby
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Re: Upgrade from Cakewalk ProAudio 9
2016/08/01 21:09:47
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I went from pro audio 9.0 to sonar 8 and it was a big jump as far as features and learning curve. After sonar 8 I've gone through every single X series (sonar x1 thru platinum) and its been well, well , worth it. check out some videos on you tube and if you can swing it, grab a groove 3 video (Sonar platinum) but I believe between you tube and cakewalk(also has a great stock of videos on site) start here: https://www.cakewalk.com/CakeTV/SONAR-University you will be pleasantly surprised how much your world will change. The problem with pro audio 9 for me was I had trouble running it in windows 7 (ya I tried to open it) even with compatibility settings it was missing some features. but all your old projects should work fine but I don't need to tell you that because these other guys have covered that nicely. Welcome to the best forum on the web.
post edited by chuckebaby - 2016/08/01 21:31:51
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Re: Upgrade from Cakewalk ProAudio 9
2016/08/01 21:22:01
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timidi
John,
It's been awhile but, I remember something with volume offsets or something, among other weirdnesses.
I can't say. My wrk files were simple. Many have automation. None had any offset issues. Not having plugins I used in those days is the only issue. But not an insurmountable one. In my case they just open and often ask for missing plugins but thats pretty much it. I have noticed some users seem to have all sorts of problems with not just wrk files but all CW files. Why this is I don't know. All I can say is I haven't. I have hundreds of them.
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