[ddots-l] Re: More about cleaning up

The problem is that I have been lazy when making mp3s for export to people
who are following my progress on a given composition.    Instead of
selecting both the MIDI and audio track of a VST soft synth and then
exporting an mp3, I made extra work for myself in the long run by  frreezing
the synth and then exporting an mp3.  I would then unfreeze the synth if I
wanted to keep working on the same project.  Unfortunately, the per project
folder thing requires you to name your project immediately.  That's why I
never used it.  Now that I understand it more clearly, I'll try to save
stuff as a per project audio once I'm some way into it. That way, I'll be
able to clean things up as you suggest in the future.
Thanks,
Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Luis Elorza
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 11:03 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: More about cleaning up


yes you can delete wave files from the audio folder with windows explorer.
just be sure that it is audio that is no longer used by any project. but i
would not recommend deleting wave files one by one, because you can be
sure there are too many waves that are already not being used. because
everytime you record, punch in, bounce to clips bounce to tracks apply
effects, freeze, you are creating new wave files and the original ones stay
so you can make undo's , but once saving and reopening the project again
they will no longer be part of the project.
you can also use the clean audio disk feature but i personally don't like it

because it will search through all your partitions looking for sonar
projects and checking which wave files are  not used by any project. then
it'll let you delete them but it takes years. and this will only be in
relation to one folder and if you  have many audio folders and have to do it

for each one it's just crazy.
what i do is always use  per project audio and when i want to clean my audio

folder for that project i just save the project as cwb bundle file and it
will trim all the audio data for that project and you can save it to a new
folder. and you can delete the old audio folder. but not in the case of a
global audio folder cause then you'll have audio from many projects in the
same place.
you have to be very careful when cleaning a global audio folder. but as a
rule ,any project i want to  keep i will convert it to bundle and save it in

a finished projects folder in an external drive.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Gibbs" <kevjazz@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 8:37 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] More about cleaning up


Guys,
Here's another question on my thread about cleaning out unwanted wave files
from synth freezes.  I know you're not supposed to delete files from the
audio folder using Windows Explorer.  However, if the files clearly indicate
the name of the cwp file to which they are attached and it says, "soft synth
bla, mix 42."  Can you safely delete those and hear the file when the cwp is
reopened assuming that the entire contents of the file was nothing but soft
synths and contained no audio from other unretreavable sources? Kevin



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