Sonar to Logic file conversion?

rosebud828 · Joined: Sep 07, 2006 Posts: 1 Location: New York

Hello,
I've switched to Mac in the last year. However I have many years worth of recordings saved as Sonar .BUN files. (Sonar 2.0 XL) I'd like to use the music for the multimedia projects I'm working on in final cut as well as consolidate my system and just record using my Mac. What's the best way to convert my Sonar Project files to Mac? I've thought of buying a PC, loading Sonar and outputing the files as .WAV but it's a daunting task and I'm not sure the project would stay in sync after loading it into my Mac... Any thoughts would be most welcome.
Thanks,
Rosebud828

elektro80 · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 11:39 pm Post subject:

I "recently" switched from Cubase 5 VST32 ( on the mac ) to Logic Pro. Only way I could transfer old projects was to export audio files and manually assemble the lot in Logic. AFAIK there is not project file converters out there.. unless in your case there is some kind of Sonar to Logic 5 converter. I am just guessing here. I haven´t heard of such a product, but if there is a conversioon utility around it would of course support the older Emagic Logic 5 version for Windows and not Logic Pro 7 for mac OS X.

hornstuff · Joined: Aug 29, 2009 Posts: 4 Location: New Orleans

Hi Rosebud828, I see where you had the same situation I'm facing now. Maybe you can let me know how you resolved it. I still have my Sonar 1.3 files on the old pc and a hard drive. I want to move all these Sonar files over to Logic Studio. (not to .wav or .aiff) so I can still edit, alter, them. The only way I can see to do it is track at a time, but I can't imagine that I could sync the audio tracks with the midi if I do it all by hand. Thanks, Much ... Charlie jazzhorn@gmail.com

nobody · Joined: Mar 09, 2008 Posts: 1687 Location: Not here

I don't know about really old versions of Sonar, but doesn't Sonar save audio files in wave format? Make note of where these wave files are and put the song back together in the other program.

For MIDI, I would think you could save as gen MIDI and bring that into your new program.

I'm going to be facing this issue soon as I eschew Windows for Linux, now that I have my Mackies working on Linux and I've bought an Emagic AMT8 on ebay. Cool

hornstuff · Joined: Aug 29, 2009 Posts: 4 Location: New Orleans

Thanks Audiodef,

Of couse I thought of exporting and importing individual audio and midi tracks. (I have 170 pieces of music on the pc)

But the prob I see with doing it manually like that is to sync all the tracks in the mac program as well as they're already sync'd up on the pc.

My sense is I'm gonna just wind up with a ton of individual tracks of original music which I'll be able to pull into new music and use the tracks creatively in new projects.

Thanks for your help,

Charlie