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lhama · Post by **lhama** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 9:54 am

I friend wanted to bring over his tracks to mine, i've got sl 2, i think he has got cakewalk 9.0. He's not savvy at all about the program, i want him to export all the midi tracks for me. How do you do this in cakewalk 9.0 as i'll have to explain it over the phone to him. thanks joe

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 9:05 pm

if no one else answers I might have it insatalled on my machine at my father's (p3)...I can't remember right now...brain strain...but I am bringing that machine back here soon anyhow so I'll refesh my memory...I will be going to his house tomorrow...

Stupid American Pig · Post by **Stupid American Pig** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 9:12 pm

should be as simple as file/export/midi... make sure you select all midi data before exporting, ctrl + a will do the trick for that..

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 10:04 am

Stupid American Pig wrote:should be as simple as file/export/midi...

Exporting midi didn't come along until Sonar 3 or 4.The only way to do that in PA9 is to save it as a project file and choose from the options,mid 0,mid 1,etc.,and you can save that file anywhere you want.

lhama · Post by **lhama** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 10:13 am

thanks for the info, i'll have to trek over to his and try and sort it.
cheers joe

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 10:20 am

I thought, to this day, that you still have to use Save As and save your entire project as a MIDI file (with all the warnings, etc) to export MIDI from Sonar, don't you?

OzoneJunkie · Post by **OzoneJunkie** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 4:10 pm

Some tips before export/save as:

If possible, remove extraneous events from your sequence (use the Event View). Program changes and such. I think it's better, if you have the tracks to spare, to use separate tracks for each program/synth patch.

Rename you channels, from Piano 1, Piano 2, to 310 - Dream Piano, 312 - Rhodes. In otherwords, what I do is have the actual Bank/Patch number and name as the channel name. Why? Because some programs import bank and patch numbers differently. It's been helpful for me, since you then have the actual info you need to set the bank/patch numbers properly if they get screwed up importing into another host.

Export both formats. You never know what you might need.

Sorry if this stuff seems a bit on the extreme side. It's just what I've been doing in preparation to moving to software only, and possible host changes. I have old sequences that I still want.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 5:58 pm

bduffy wrote:I thought, to this day, that you still have to use Save As and save your entire project as a MIDI file (with all the warnings, etc) to export MIDI from Sonar, don't you?

Actually your right now that I think about it,you can however,export midi groove clips though.

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 2:02 am

Alan wrote:
bduffy wrote:I thought, to this day, that you still have to use Save As and save your entire project as a MIDI file (with all the warnings, etc) to export MIDI from Sonar, don't you?
Actually your right now that I think about it,you can however,export midi groove clips though.

How strange. I wonder why they still do it like that? You have to save as MIDI, close that, re-open your .cwp project. Bizarre. Luckily projects open so fast in Sonar.

cakewalk 9 - midi export