Cakewalk Sonar 2 Q&A and Sonar 2 Power

[garrigus]

Hi Everybody!

The 16th issue of my free music technology newsletter is now available. In this issue I provide lots of answers to many different questions concerning Sonar 2 techniques. And for this issue's contest, I'm giving away free copies of the Ozone 2 Audio Mastering software from iZotope! Here's more about what you'll find in this month's issue:

1. Scott's Notes - Sonar 2 Power!
2. DFreqCONTEST - iZotope Ozone 2
3. DFreqDEALS - Code Audio's BeatBurner
4. DFreqNEWS - BitHeadz, MAGIX, MusicLab, Kenton, NI, and more...
5. DFreqDISCUSS - Auto-Saving In Sonar
6. DFreqFEATURE - Sonar 2 Q&A
7. DFreqSHAREWARE - Wave Corrector and Blaze Media Pro
8. DFreqFREEWARE - CD Scratch and Audioactive Bitrate Calculator
9. DFreqBUYWARE - Audio Cleaning Lab 3.0
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11. DFreqTIP - Encode Your Sonar MP3s For Free
12. DFreqFUN - Experience Music Project

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Thanks!
Scott

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Scott R. Garrigus - Author of the Cakewalk, Sound Forge, SONAR, SONAR 2, and Sound Forge 6 Power! books, and Publisher of the DigiFreq music technology newsletter.

[shroud]

Scott, thanks for posting!

[garrigus]

Hi Shroud,

Sorry for the late reply. Thanks! It's fun to be a part of this forum. I try to visit as often as I can. I enjoy sharing knowledge with other musicians.

Best regards,
Scott

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Scott R. Garrigus - Author of Cakewalk, Sound Forge and Sound Forge 6, SONAR and SONAR 2 Power! books; Publisher of DigiFreq. Win a free copy of iZotope's Ozone 2 and learn more cool music technology tips and techniques by getting a FREE subscription to DigiFreq... go to:
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[Munchy]

I have Cakewalk Sonar; I don't have time during the day to call tech support and my emails don't seem to be descriptive enough, so let me try this on you:

I have a midi with 20 tracks. 9 of them are musical tracks, and 11 of them are signature tracks, or extraneous tracks that the author slipped in so that he could get his name out there.

The problem is that when I delete the extra tracks so that I can convert the midi file to SMAF (my SMAF does not allow more than 16 tracks) my midi to SMAF converter tells me that there are more than 16 tracks (when there are obviously only 9) and that it was unable to convert them all.

Is there something in the program that is keeping count of the number of tracks in the MIDI? Might it be telling my SMAF converter that there are still 20 tracks? Must I change this manually?

Thanks for your help.

-Scott