Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 Bundle to Mac-based DAW?

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Hi all,

The whole of my catalog is in Cakewalk Pro Audio 9.0. I am thinking
about moving to the Mac platform but am afraid I would have to abandon
my work and start over. Anybody know of a Mac-based package that will
import the Cakewalk bundle files?

Thanks a ton,
Mike

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mnelson@frontiernet.net (Mike) wrote in message news:<b58edf69.0408230607.794620fd@posting.google.com>...
> Hi all,
>
> The whole of my catalog is in Cakewalk Pro Audio 9.0. I am thinking
> about moving to the Mac platform but am afraid I would have to abandon
> my work and start over. Anybody know of a Mac-based package that will
> import the Cakewalk bundle files?
>
> Thanks a ton,
> Mike

Mike,
I have asked this question here and searched the web for any possible means
to unravel Cakewalk bun files and didn't have any success. I did the same
thing you are about to do and ended up with Cubase on a Mac. In the end I
exported my Cakewalk files to MIDI format and then imported them into Cubase
which at least gave me a good starting point to rebuild my songs. I know this
means re-recording your audio tracks, but for me, it was very cool because I
was using newer converters which made the effort worthwhile.

If you must have the audio from the Cakewalk files you could import the
invidual Cakewalk audio tracks into your Mac-based DAW. There might be an
Intel/PowerPC byte ordering issue, but I can't say for certain.

If you discover something I've missed, please let me know.

Gary V

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auc@worldnet.att.net (Gary V) wrote in message news:<4d1d01e.0408231118.6a5aa256@posting.google.com>...
> mnelson@frontiernet.net (Mike) wrote in message news:<b58edf69.0408230607.794620fd@posting.google.com>...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The whole of my catalog is in Cakewalk Pro Audio 9.0. I am thinking
> > about moving to the Mac platform but am afraid I would have to abandon
> > my work and start over. Anybody know of a Mac-based package that will
> > import the Cakewalk bundle files?
> >
> > Thanks a ton,
> > Mike
>
> Mike,
> I have asked this question here and searched the web for any possible means
> to unravel Cakewalk bun files and didn't have any success. I did the same
> thing you are about to do and ended up with Cubase on a Mac. In the end I
> exported my Cakewalk files to MIDI format and then imported them into Cubase
> which at least gave me a good starting point to rebuild my songs. I know this
> means re-recording your audio tracks, but for me, it was very cool because I
> was using newer converters which made the effort worthwhile.
>
> If you must have the audio from the Cakewalk files you could import the
> invidual Cakewalk audio tracks into your Mac-based DAW. There might be an
> Intel/PowerPC byte ordering issue, but I can't say for certain.
>
> If you discover something I've missed, please let me know.
>
> Gary V


Gary, check out what JP wrote regarding OMF ("export from Sonar 2.1 or
newer to OMF"--luckily my buddy has Sonar so he can read/export my
CWPA 9.0 bundles). I'm going to do some research into the OMF
offerings out there. Hope that helps your search too...

Mike

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jp wrote:

> Mike wrote:
>> JP, thanks a ton. I've made no purchase yet...I'll research the OMF
>> possibilities out there.
>
>
> I am not sure how well it works though.. bun->omf is no problem, but
> you'd better try the omf->(some mac application) before you buy.
> And unfortunately, as far as I know omf does not include midi.

MotU DP4 imports OMF and does excellent MIDI. I'll check a MIDI doc
later to see if MIDI's saved in OMF.