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Importing Music and Sound
While recording is perhaps the most common way of adding material to a SONAR
project, there are several other methods you can also use. SONAR lets you import
music into a project from several different types of digital data files, including
MIDI files; audio files in Wave, MP3, AIFF, and other formats; and other SONAR
project files.
Importing Audio Files
SONAR lets you insert digital audio information into any track of a project. If the
audio file you are importing is in stereo, then it can be imported into a single
stereo track, a pair of mono tracks or a single mono track.
The File-Import-Audio command supports the following digital audio file types:
• Wave (extension .wav)
•MPEG (extensions .
MPEG, .MPG, .MP2, and .MP3)
• Apple AIFF (extensions .AIF and .AIFF)
• Active Streaming (extension .ASF)
• Next/Sun (extensions .AU and .SND)
The sampling rate and bit depth for a project is set based on your default settings
in the Audio Options dialog. If the sampling rate from the Wave file does not match
the sampling rate in your project, then it will be converted to the current project’s
sampling rate and bit depth.
To Import an Audio File
1. Set the Now time and current track to indicate where the audio should be
placed.
2. Choose File-Import-Audio to display the Open dialog box.
3. Choose the audio file you want to import. SONAR displays information about
the file at the bottom of the dialog box.
4. Click Play to listen to the audio file before importing.
5. If the new file is stereo, check the Stereo Split option if you want to insert the
file into two separate tracks.
6. Click Open.
SONAR loads the audio data from the audio file and places it in the selected track
at the Now time.
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