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Importing music and sound
Recording
Importing audio CD Tracks
The File > Import > Audio CD command lets you import tracks from audio CD’s into any track of a
project.
Audio tracks on a CD always have a bit depth of 16, but you can choose to import the tracks at a
higher bit depth if desired.
To import a track from an audio CD
1. Set the Now time and current track to indicate where the audio should be placed.
2. Insert an audio CD into the computer’s CD drive.
3. Choose File > Import > Audio CD to display the “Import Audio CD Tracks dialog” on page 1749
box.
4. Make sure the correct CD drive is selected in the Target Drive drop-down list.
5. Choose the audio track you want to import. SONAR displays the length and size of all audio
tracks.
6. Click Play to listen to the audio track before importing.
7. If you want to import the audio with a different bit depth than the original audio track, choose the
desired bit depth from the Import Bit Depth drop-down list.
8. Click OK.
SONAR loads the audio data from the audio CD and places it in the selected track at the Now time.
Importing material from another SONAR project
You use the Edit > Copy and Edit > Paste commands to import material from one project to another
using the Clipboard. The project that contains the material you want to import is the source project.
The project into which the material is imported is the target project.
Normally, if you copy material from several different tracks to the Clipboard, the information will be
pasted back into separate tracks. You can choose to paste all the material from the Clipboard into a
single destination track in the target project.
You can also copy material from one project to another by displaying the Track view for both projects
side by side, then using drag-and-drop editing.