About a year ago, I was getting so many BSODs with Sonar X1, I switched to Cubase 6. It has some pretty awesome features, but I never got used to the awkward workflow (no smart tool, weird drum maps, no button that collapses tracks, etc). So when X2 came out, I decided to come crawling back to Sonar. So now I have two problems:

1) I have an album project in the works in Cubase. What's the quickest and less painful way to switch back? On each of these projects, there's no more than one MIDI track (going into Superior 2.0) and 40+ audio tracks. I know you can export separate tracks (either raw or with FX+fader applied), but I'm not sure it's the best idea.

2) One thing I really did like about Cubase was that it allowed one to color each track individually/manually, it made it much better for visualization both in the track view and console view. Is there anything like this in Sonar?

Can you do an OMF export with Cubase? You can open it in SONAR as audio data (you should probably bounce/render the lone MIDI track). As an OMF you'll get all the audio data and no plug-ins.

I often export in OMF format. I don't know if cubase can export OMF but I think so. This exports tracks but not the plugins assignements...
Hope it helps anyway...

A lot of the tracks use quite a few plugins (be them EQ, comp or FX). What would you guys personally do? Bounce the FX and import them or import them raw? or even bounce everything (both plugin and fader level) and then import?

your in for a pain staking process man.
im guessing you could import your audio and midi in new projects created in sonar one at a time.
then add effects after everything is in.
if youve done many takes in cubease,make sure your inporting ful tracks,not bits and pieces of tracks.

open the browser and drag and drop one by one.
setting up a custon templete will save you hours.

one on side note,never ever heard of sonar causing BSOD.
ever.?

chuckebaby

setting up a custon templete will save you hours.

one on side note,never ever heard of sonar causing BSOD.
ever.?

Well, I can certainly tell you it does. Once I went to Cubase, I stopped having them.

luiza177


About a year ago, I was getting so many BSODs with Sonar X1, I switched to Cubase 6. It has some pretty awesome features, but I never got used to the awkward workflow (no smart tool, weird drum maps, no button that collapses tracks, etc). So when X2 came out, I decided to come crawling back to Sonar. So now I have two problems:

1) I have an album project in the works in Cubase. What's the quickest and less painful way to switch back? On each of these projects, there's no more than one MIDI track (going into Superior 2.0) and 40+ audio tracks. I know you can export separate tracks (either raw or with FX+fader applied), but I'm not sure it's the best idea.

2) One thing I really did like about Cubase was that it allowed one to color each track individually/manually, it made it much better for visualization both in the track view and console view. Is there anything like this in Sonar?

personally I would never attempt to change DAWs in the middle of a project.  I would suggest that you start your next project in sonar but finish the one you have in cubase, in cubase.
 
yes, you can change the track colors.

If OMF doesn't work, I would try saving the midi project and what ever audio tracks could be saved and imported as Broadcast Wav files. Very time consuming. You would have the choice of bouncing the FX in Cubase to the tracks or import the raw audio files and use the FX in Sonar. I have done this myself way back about Cubase 3 or 4 and the Broadcast files imported fine into Sonar.

Beagle

yes, you can change the track colors.

Where, how? Quickly like it is in cubase?

The track inspector is your friend.