I recently bought a new Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 USB sound card and can finally successfully reamp using SPDIF and my Fractal Audio Axe-Fx II, so I wanted to try and reamp the guitar & bass tracks for some of my older recording projects but they are all in 44.1K 16bit, so they won't work with the Axe-Fx II bc it only uses 48K 24bit. I read through the Sonar manuals but couldn't find a way to convert projects to different sample rates. I found something online but it said you have to convert all the files using a 3rd party app, then start a new project and then import all the converted files. The problem with this is that I'll lose all the automation, FX, settings... etc in my projects.
 
Can I convert the audio files in the project's audio folder with an app like Sony Sound Forge, then open the project in Sonar, and then change the projects sample rate to 48K 24bit?

I also posted this in the Fractal Audio Forum: http://forum.fractalaudio...ar-x2-x3-projects.html

How to change the sample rate of a project http://www.cakewalk.com/D...rmance.05.html#1117623

scook
How to change the sample rate of a project http://www.cakewalk.com/D...rmance.05.html#1117623

scook - it amazes me how you have a link on just about every cakewalk subject! Thanks for all the help you give to this forum!
 
Steve

Not only that... scook often answers a question with only one line of text!

Thanks and you are welcome. Google and the search function on the Cakewalk home page combined with a big dose of lazy.

Unfortunately the SONAR-only procedure has some big shortcomings: It doesn't address bringing the audio back into the original project with the new sample rate, preserving all the non-destructive processing and other project content and settings. And SONAR renames the files on export in a way that can make that difficult to re-import everything manually. Plus it forces you to bounce down multi-clip and multi-lane tracks to single-clip tracks.
 
This is where a 3rd-party sample-conversion application like the free Voxengo R8Brain comes in handy. R8Brain has a batch mode that will create re-sampled copies of all the audio files in place with the original names and add a prefix/suffix to the original files (or delete them if you so choose). Then when you re-open the original project (or a copy of it) with those re-sampled files in the audio folder, SONAR will automatically set the project rate to match the audio it finds, and you're done.
 
Though it does involve using a 3rd-party conversion app, it's by far the fastest and least complicated way of converting a project's sample rate and/or bit depth without altering the project otherwise.

brundlefly
Unfortunately the SONAR-only procedure has some big shortcomings: It doesn't address bringing the audio back into the original project with the new sample rate, preserving all the non-destructive processing and other project content and settings. And SONAR renames the files on export in a way that can make that difficult to re-import everything manually. Plus it forces you to bounce down multi-clip and multi-lane tracks to single-clip tracks.
 
This is where a 3rd-party sample-conversion application like the free Voxengo R8Brain comes in handy. R8Brain has a batch mode that will create re-sampled copies of all the audio files in place with the original names and add a prefix/suffix to the original files (or delete them if you so choose). Then when you re-open the original project (or a copy of it) with those re-sampled files in the audio folder, SONAR will automatically set the project rate to match the audio it finds, and you're done.
 
Though it does involve using a 3rd-party conversion app, it's by far the fastest and least complicated way of converting a project's sample rate and/or bit depth without altering the project otherwise.

Brundlefly,
I just tested and it worked! Thank you for actually reading my post & giving the correct answer.  I will share this info on the Fractal Audio Forum.
 

scook
Thanks and you are welcome. Google and the search function on the Cakewalk home page combined with a big dose of lazy.

 
Scook,
No reason to be rude. Please practice what you preach. I guess you OD'ed on a big dose of lazy bc you clearly didn't read my post or maybe it was too complex for you to comprehend.

GotMetalBoy
 

scook
Thanks and you are welcome. Google and the search function on the Cakewalk home page combined with a big dose of lazy.

 
Scook,
No reason to be rude. Please practice what you preach. I guess you OD'ed on a big dose of lazy bc you clearly didn't read my post or maybe it was too complex for you to comprehend.

I was replying to the two previous posts and referring to myself. How rude is that.