[ddots-l] Re: How to insert mor bars for a project

Dan, I'm trying your approach here but I got a littile lost. I have all my 
songs in one project and worked the eq and volumes pretty good but since the 
tracks aren't the same length I can't seem to cut the track to the end of the 
individual song.  The end for all the songs is the length of the longest track. 
 How do I do this part of the process. The other thing is I have the songs as 
mp3's is that a problem. 
   
 Thanks Tom
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dan Rugman 
  To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 4:58 AM
  Subject: [ddots-l] Re: How to insert mor bars for a project


  Jorgen,

  You definitely need to look at the entire album as a single file, because 
this is the only way to judge how the album works as a whole.  But if you 
create each song from scratch in the same project your asking for trouble.  The 
project will be massive, hard to work with, and if the project gets corrupted 
you'll lose everything.  The way to work round this is to create each song in a 
separate project and then export it as a stereo wave file.  You can then use a 
new project to pull all the files together and work with the album in a much 
smaller project.  You'll also have backups of each song in case something goes 
wrong.

  Do not just save each song separately and burn all the files straight to 
disk.  Some songs need longer gaps between them and the levels you set for a 
song may not work when its next to other songs.  You may also need to change 
the EQ and do more compression to make all the songs sit properly together.  If 
you don't do this you'll end up with a mess of separate songs that sound like 
they were slapped together in a tea break.

  Here's how I'd do this.

  1. create each song in a separate project and export the audio as a stereo 
wave file.

  2. Create a new project and add all the separate files.  Use cut paste and 
nudge to get each section in exactly the right position and master the final 
cut.

  3. Export the whole project as a stereo file and then open that file in Sound 
Forge.  Put a marker at the start of each track and then save the file.

  4. Use Niro to create an audio CD.  Import the file you saved in Sound Forge 
and choose the split at index positions option.  When you burn the CD all the 
tracks will be precisely where you want them.

  Hope this helps,

  Dan
  ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Jörgen Hansson 
    To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 12:09 PM
    Subject: [ddots-l] How to insert mor bars for a project


    Hi all!
    I just wonder how to insert more bars for a project? Actually I'm going to 
do audio projects by the way and for example, if I have recorded one song from 
the very beginning of the project and I would like to continue add more songs 
to the same project, how can I do to make the project longer? well, let's say 
that I'd like to do a whole album in sonar called Rock'n'roll with Jorgen or 
so, and I'd like to add 10 songs into the same project, how can I make it long 
to do this?
    Regards,
    Jorgen!

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