Home Studio 7 and music creator 5

Re:Home Studio 7 and music creator 5 (57Gregy)

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:31:20 GMT

Right, Kine, I would think Home Studio 7 would be a late enough version to have already changed from .wrk/.bun to .cwp/.cwb. My brother the programmer has HS 4 which he bought in 2004, I think, and MC Pro 24 had already made that file extension change at about that time.
Just musing... it's all irrelevant if the OP didn't save his projects as .bun instead of .wrk.
I can relate, and I think all of us at some time had to completely redo a song due to some error or malfunction.

Re:Home Studio 7 and music creator 5 (Guitarhacker)

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:59:20 GMT

Very often, if the files were recorded and saved in an older version of Cake, they can be opened in most current versions. I had some old Cakewalk pro 8 files that were saved as bundles. (Very important to save your work as BUNDLE files as Greg said above) I popped the CD into my lappy and opened them successfully in MC4. I think it only work from old version to new...if you try to open a new version MC4/5 file on an older version, you might not be able to do it.

However, if you did not save the audio files and do not have the hard drive where they were saved to anymore..... this is a good opportunity to record those tracks again. As you have said, a few years have passed, so hopefully your playing and chops have improved and they will sound even better this time around. Just save what you don't want to loose this time to a CD as a BUNDLE file.

Re:Home Studio 7 and music creator 5 (kine321)

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:54:14 GMT

Clarity:
Sorry, I meant version # such as SHS4 for example. I sorta got the impression he recorded the project with SHS7; got rid of it and wanted to finish using MC5. I Dunno... I just get stuck on details or a lack thereof.

Re:Home Studio 7 and music creator 5 (57Gregy)

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:54:38 GMT

Nah, before SONAR Home Studio there was just plain Home Studio.

Re:Home Studio 7 and music creator 5 (kine321)

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:23:07 GMT

Hmm... I wonder if he's referring to an earlier version of HS other than #7,
being that the current programs will only load the legacy .wrk files, but not re-save in that format. He gives the impression that he recorded the .wrk files with SHS7?

Just curious...

Re:Home Studio 7 and music creator 5 (57Gregy)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:36:17 GMT

Sorry 'bout that...
Since Cakewalk has changed their file extensions and you don't want this to happen again, save your work to CD/DVD as bundle files. These contain everything, including the audio, and you can load them up in any computer with a modern Cakewalk program installed. In the old days, these were .bun files; now they're .cwb files. They are very large, too.

Re:Home Studio 7 and music creator 5 (wsimonis)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:56:43 GMT

so when I saved the project, it didn't include the actual music file?
well, that stinks. Live and learn.

Re:Home Studio 7 and music creator 5 (Peter Rabbit)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:24:28 GMT

See....I told you so, I told you so, I told you so. " />

Re:Home Studio 7 and music creator 5 (Beagle)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:10:57 GMT

yes, greg is right, I didn't see that you said you had saved a wrk file.

Re:Home Studio 7 and music creator 5 (57Gregy)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:26:22 GMT

According to MC 2003 help file, the only Cakewalk program I have that references .wrk files, a .wrk file is all your MIDI data and project settings. The audio is saved in a different place on the hard drive.
So, if the files are in fact .wrk, there is no audio there. If you don't have access to the hard drive that you originally recorded this on, that audio is gone.

Re:Home Studio 7 and music creator 5 (wsimonis)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:44:08 GMT

Like I said before, the original Home Studio is not installed. All I have are wrk files. So doing a search will not find anything. Do I need to reinstal Home Studio? or will it have the files I am looking for on the disk?

Those were the only two it needs.

Re:Home Studio 7 and music creator 5 (Peter Rabbit)

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:10:28 GMT

It sounds to me that he has loaded a saved "project" file and not a "bundled" file, which means the audio wav files were not included with the save.

But Beagle's suggestion is a good one. Maybe the audio wav files are there somewhere but the MC program is looking for them in it's default folder and the audio wav files were saved to a different folder.

Are all the audio files missing or just a couple?

Pete

Re:Home Studio 7 and music creator 5 (Beagle)

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:03:01 GMT

it's missing audio files from the project that you have recorded, then. try searching for those files on your hard drive using windows search. if you find them, move them to C:\CAKEWALK PROJECTS\AUDIO\
then try again.

Re:Home Studio 7 and music creator 5 (wsimonis)

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:44:00 GMT

okay here is what the program is looking for:

CV1mn14i2.WA~
RC1mn1efl.WA~

If I skip the files, I get:

Some external audio files cannot be found. Missing audio file data been replaced with silence.

And play back has no sound. Iam not familiar with the two files its looking for.

Re:Home Studio 7 and music creator 5 (Beagle)

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:27:04 GMT

that's really going to depend on what files are missing. if it's talking about plugins and synths missing, then yes, you'll need to install SHS, if it's talking about missing audio files, then you'll have to figure out where the audio files are that it can't find. what exactly is the message that you're getting?

Home Studio 7 and music creator 5 (wsimonis)

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:32:32 GMT

You will pardon me if this question has already been answered before, but I have't seen it.

I had owned Cakewalk Home Studio 7 and had a few wrk projects that I would like to finish up using music creator 5. The problem is when I open the file I get several error messages about missing files. I don't know the names of these files off hand, but they seem to be connected to Home Studio 7 (which is currently not installed on my computer).
Do I need to install it before I can use them in the MC5?
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.