Here's my dilemma: My project is on Sonar in my DAW. I am traveling to another state to record some vocal tracks with a singer in a studio. Those tracks will be used on my project on Sonar. Also, one of the musicians lives in different state and uses Cubase. He will be doing keyboards. What will I need to make this project portable along with the assumption that the studio may use a different program?

Not sure of the answer to the direct question but I sure love your siggy. You have a nifty way building Sonar up just after you've trashed it really good.
 
Sorry if I'm interpeting something wrong . . . . but hey . . . .  I use Sonar too.  
 
Ties in so nicely with your thread title.
 

AFAIK your only safe option is to have every track, or possibly stems, as separate wav-files according to needs. MIDI is just MIDI, of course, but the softsynths you possibly have need to be adjusted from start if you don't take the preset-files with you (assuming the studio has the same soft synths). Automation on MIDI tracks is one thing as well, which might make it more practical to bounce to audio.  One OMF-version might be good to have just in case (??).
 
There's no way to move a project to another brand DAW and keep all of it's important features and tweakability.
 

pianodano
Not sure of the answer to the direct question but I sure love your siggy. You have a nifty way building Sonar up just after you've trashed it really good.
 
Sorry if I'm interpeting something wrong . . . . but hey . . . .  I use Sonar too.  
 
Ties in so nicely with your thread title.

You're focusing in on the wrong thing and you did'nt even bother to entertain the question. My sig is meant to be a joke. I love Sonar and rarely have any issues. Not nice to be critizing...unless I'm not getting you're drift.

Kalle Rantaaho  ,
 
I'm only using audio files. No MIDI and no softsynths or effects. Just the individual wave files.

Dreamer

pianodano
Not sure of the answer to the direct question but I sure love your siggy. You have a nifty way building Sonar up just after you've trashed it really good.
 
Sorry if I'm interpeting something wrong . . . . but hey . . . .  I use Sonar too.  
 
Ties in so nicely with your thread title.

You're focusing in on the wrong thing and you did'nt even bother to entertain the question. My sig is meant to be a joke. I love Sonar and rarely have any issues. Not nice to be critizing...unless I'm not getting you're drift.

Sorry to upset you. But as I said, your siggy (joke) is really funny. Sorry  my joke wasn't.
 

No biggie was'nt sure were you was coming from, (I'm not upset, I just did't get any response to my question from you).
 

If I were you I would:
1.  make one master folder on say my desk top.
2. then subdivide the master folder down into one folder for each song you want to work on
3. then for each song, export each individual track of that song as a 24 bit, 44.1 wav file (and if you have the room an MP3 at say 196 or even 320  bps) into its proper folder.
4. Finally I would save this master folder with all the sub folders that contain each individual track for each song on to say a 64 gig flash drive, a Re Writable DVD and if you have it a portable HD. Triple security...If you do the DVD bring extra DVD's with you....BE PREPARED
 
this way you have each track as a Wav and an MP3. (any studio worth their salt will have the ability to import a 24 bit, 44.1 Wav file or anMP3 file. If not then I would rethink the whole deal........seriously!!!
You will have them all organized by individual songs
All organized inside a master folder.
 
this way when you go to save the new tracks you will save them in their individual song folders and when you get home all you will need to do is import the new trackes into Sonar and away you go....
 
Again the biggest thing is BE PREPARED in case they are not....if you are prepared then the likely hood of a disaster is minimized....
 
If you have any midi or soft synth parts then before you start to export the individual tracks I would freeze the synth parts and export them as audio as well......24 bit, 44.1 Wav files......just like everything else.....
 
Clifford

Now that's what I'm talking about! That's exactly what I wanted to hear. Pretty much done all of the folder stuff you wrote except exporting to a 24 bit HQ wave, (I don't do mp3's they are not exactly at the same level of quality as a 24 bit wave).
 
Studios are picky about sound quality and that never occurred to me. It has to be the best quality wave file possible. Then yes later I can import the studio waves into Sonar. Great suggestions....keep them coming!

Well I understand about the mp3's but remember that the mp3's you are using are for reference only and not for including into your final project.....
 
so if you use a 320 bps mp3 you are saving space on to the media you are Saveing on while your new tracks can be recorded into the project as wav's.
 
Once back home, you import the new wav's and dump everything else in the portable media project.
 
right?