Working between different Sonar packages: Platinum and Artist.

Kev999

mottlywatts
...A friend of mine has Sonar Platinum.  I'm thinking of getting Sonar so we can collaborate on some upcoming recording projects...

 
I'm just wondering how you envisage the collaboration working that requires you and your friend to both have Sonar. Assuming that it is a musical collaboration rather than a technical one, it would be inconvenient to use a relay method where the different contributers take turns editing the same project. I wouldn't want to go down that road. The normal way to work is for each contributer to maintain his/her own separate project and to to export, send, receive and import audio files. It's not necessary for each individual to have the same software, or even to care what the others are using.

Very good point. 

Thanks for all your responses. 
 
We are recording using Sonar Platinum onto a desktop PC at our usual practice location.  Once we have the basic tracks down, I would like to be able to bundle it, take that recording home to work on.  Then using my own Sonar PC at home, make my edits, and then restore it on the original desktop PC at our practice location, where it will be further edited by someone else.
 
I don't forsee a lot of back and forth editing like this.  It's more of an issue where following the basic recordings, I can take the bundle home, clean-up the tracks (noise gates and whatever), and EQ the drums how I'd like them to sound.  Then I could save the updated tracks as a bundle, and give it to the person who will be doing most of the rest of the edits/production/mastering on his Sonar.
 
Before I purchased Sonar, I just wanted to make sure that if the recording does have things applied to it that I don't have in my version, that they would simply be disabled, and not removed.