Importing from BandLab

You can open a BandLab project as a new Sonar project, or import a BandLab project into the current Sonar project.

To open or import a BandLab project that has not been downloaded yet. See Opening or importing a project from your BandLab library.

To open a BandLab project that has already been downloaded. See Opening a downloaded BandLab project.

To import a BandLab project that has already been downloaded. See Importing a downloaded BandLab project.

Opening or importing a project from your BandLab library

You can open a BandLab project as a new Sonar project, or import a BandLab project into the current Sonar project.

To open or import a project from your BandLab library:

1.	Go to File > Quick Start Screen to open the Quick Start screen, then select the Online Library page.

If you are not already logged in to your BandLab account, you will be prompted to log in.

2.	Select the project you want to open or import.

3.	Click the Song Download Options button and, specify which assets to include when opening/importing the selected project:

Include Empty Tracks. Include tracks that contain no data.

Include Track Regions. Include individual clips instead of track mixdowns.

Include Track Effects. Include track effects.

Add Track Mixdown. Include individual track stems.

Note: The BandLab server must generate individual track mixdowns. The timing for this is dependent on server availability. If the server is busy you may get a message notifying you that track mixdowns are not ready yet. You can choose to download without the mixdowns, or retry downloading the project again later.

Add Bus Mixdown. Include individual bus stems.

Add Project Mixdown. Include a stereo mixdown of the project. If you import both individual tracks and a project mixdown, the project mixdown will be muted in order to prevent doubled audio.

4.	Do one of the following:

To open the project as a new Sonar project, double-click the project.

To append the project to the current Sonar project, enable Import, then double-click the project.

Figure 113. Quick Start screen: Online Library page.

A. Show Online Library B. Import (enable to import; disable to load) C. Song Download Options D. Refresh project list E. Search F. View Selected Song Online G. Selected project is highlighted 

The Quick Start Screen Online Library page contains the following settings:

Projects. List of all projects in your BandLab library.

Import. Enable to import and append the selected project to the current Sonar project instead of opening as a new project.

Song Download Options . Specify which assets to include when opening/importing the selected project:

Include Empty Tracks. Include tracks that contain no data.

Include Track Regions. Include individual clips instead of track mixdowns.

Include Track Effects. Include track effects.

Add Track Mixdown. Include individual track stems.

Note: The BandLab server must generate individual track mixdowns. The timing for this is dependent on server availability. If the server is busy you may get a message notifying you that track mixdowns are not ready yet. You can choose to download without the mixdowns, or retry downloading the project again later.

Add Bus Mixdown. Include individual bus stems.

Add Project Mixdown. Include a stereo mixdown of the project.

Refresh . Refresh the project list.

Search. Search the project list.

View Selected Song Online . View the project on www.bandlab.com, where you can view project history, view and invite collaborators, and open the project in BandLab Mix Editor.

Opening a downloaded BandLab project

If you have already downloaded a BandLab project to your local file system (see Opening or importing a project from your BandLab library), you can open it as a new Sonar project without having to redownload the project.

To open a downloaded BandLab project as a new Sonar project, do one of the following:

In the Media Browser, select the BandLab Projects content location preset to show all exported BandLab projects in the C:\Users\<user name>\Documents\BandLab\Downloads folder. Double-click the desired project folder, then double-click the BandLab Interchange file (.blx).

Figure 114. Media Browser.

Or

1.	Go to File > Open or press CTRL+O to open the Open dialog box.

2.	In the Go to Folder drop-down list, select BandLab Interchange File (.BLX) to navigate to the C:\Users\<user name>\Documents\BandLab\Downloads folder.

3.	Double-click the desired project folder.

4.	Select the BandLab Interchange file (.blx) and click Open.

The BandLab Interchange file opens as a new untitled Sonar project that must be saved with a new file name.

Figure 115. File Open dialog box.

Importing a downloaded BandLab project

If you have already downloaded a BandLab project to your local file system (see Opening or importing a project from your BandLab library), you can import it into any Sonar project without having to redownload the project.

To import a downloaded BandLab project into the current Sonar project, do one of the following:

Go to File > Import > BandLab Project.

In the Media Browser, select the BandLab Projects content location preset to show all exported BandLab projects in the C:\Users\<user name>\Documents\BandLab\Downloads folder. Double-click the desired project folder, then drag the BandLab Interchange file (.blx) to the Track view.

Tracks from the BandLab project are inserted below the last track, color-coded to match their original track colors.

Figure 116. Media Browser.

 

Tip: You can also drag individual tracks from the exported BandLab project’s \Audio folder.

 

See:

Publishing to BandLab

Inviting collaborators

BandLab library import/export