Reference Guide

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Opening project files
Tutorial 1 – Creating, playing, and saving projects
• The vertical navigation buttons let you jump to popular locations on your computer’s hard disk.
• The browsing pane lists all the project files and folders that are available in the selected folder.
•The Go to Folder drop-down list allows you to quickly move to commonly used folders for
project files in SONAR. Typically, you can get to your projects by selecting Project Files.
• For more detailed information about all the options and functions in this dialog box, click Help.
For this tutorial we want to open one of the sample project files that are included with SONAR.
Navigate to the Cakewalk Content folder (default location is C:\Cakewalk Content\SONAR
X3 [Producer or Studio]\Tutorial Projects\Tutorial Projects) and locate the
project named SONAR_AudioDemo.cwb.
You can load project files into SONAR in one of two ways:
• Select a file by clicking on it so that it is selected, then click Open.
• Double-click the file from the browsing pane.
Let’s now use one of these methods to open the project file SONAR_AudioDemo.cwb. When the
project opens, the File Information window appears. This window can be used for storing notes,
comments, credits and other helpful information about a project. For now, close File Information
window by clicking the Close button in the upper right corner of the window.
See:
“Creating a new project” on page 100
Note: If prompted to unpack the bundle, accept the default locations and click OK.