Opening project files

Next, we are going to cover how to open existing project files. There are two ways this can be done in SONAR:

Click the Open a Project button in the Quick Start dialog box that is first presented when SONAR starts.

Note: You can open the Quick Start dialog box at any time by going to Help > Quick Start.

Select File > Open from the menu bar across the top of SONAR’s screen.

Let’s go ahead and try one of the above methods. Either of them will bring you to the Open dialog box as shown in the following figure. The Open dialog box functions like any other file browsing dialog box in Microsoft Windows.

The vertical navigation buttons let you jump to popular locations on your computer’s hard disk.

The browsing pane lists all the project files and folders that are available in the selected folder.

The Go to Folder drop-down list allows you to quickly move to commonly used folders for project files in SONAR. Typically, you can get to your projects by selecting Project Files.

For more detailed information about all the options and functions in this dialog box, click Help.

For this tutorial we want to open one of the sample project files that are included with SONAR.

Navigate to the Cakewalk Content folder (default location is C:\Cakewalk Content\SONAR X3 [Producer or Studio]\Tutorial Projects\Tutorial Projects) and locate the project named SONAR_AudioDemo.cwb.

You can load project files into SONAR in one of two ways:

Select a file by clicking on it so that it is selected, then click Open.

Double-click the file from the browsing pane.

Note: If prompted to unpack the bundle, accept the default locations and click OK.

Let’s now use one of these methods to open the project file SONAR_AudioDemo.cwb. When the project opens, the File Information window appears. This window can be used for storing notes, comments, credits and other helpful information about a project. For now, close File Information window by clicking the Close button in the upper right corner of the window.

 

See:

Creating a new project

Playing project files

Looping project files

Saving project files