CWB files ?

CWB. Cake Walk Bundle Files, Audio and possibly midi. Trying to help a dear friend who became paralyzed. All he has are a few project discs saved as CWB files from a PC. Do I need to purchase Sonar install it on a PC and do the conversion to aif or wave there? Or is there a way to do it in logic on my mac.

Mac Pro and I-MAC, Mac OS X (10.6.5), logic 9, Mackie control, motu 896,unitor 8 chanel midi,pod xt pro lexicon mx

Posted on Feb 1, 2011 12:08 PM

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Feb 1, 2011 1:34 PM in response to Data Stream Studio

Hey Data, Im always up for a laugh. Not bad ! But Im just trying to keep My pal involved. We've been writing together since we were 15. 10 tears ago he went cakewalk and I went Logic. Im trying to get his projects over to logic so I can add to and finish them. It keeps him going. Thanks Bill
P.S Cowbell Bill yea what can ya do ! I got tagged from the XM radio show Opie And Anthony, Anthony is my lead singer.

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Mar 26, 2011 6:23 PM in response to cowbell bill

I did that yesterday.
Download the sonar demo from the cakewalk site, if you have VMware Fusion or Paralells, install it in that virtual machine. You can use Boot camp too.
Now, in windows, Launch sonar, click file, open, and select the CWB.
In the unpack bundle window click ok.
If your friend used a plugin that is not on the machine you'll get a Missing plug-ins window, just cick ok too.
Once the project is open you can play the song if you want.
Now you can click File, Export, OMF.
In the next window, choose a location for the omf file and click Save.
Don't change any settings in the save window, unless you want something special like split stereo tracks to dual mono. When it finishes, copy the omf file to your mac.
Now, in logic pro, start a new project with a single audio channel, and then click on File, import, and select the omf. Logic will ask you for a folder to unpack the omf to, make one and select it, if you don't, and you have the omf in your desktop, it will unpack all the files there, you don't want that for a 20 channel project, make a folder to unpack it.
Once the projext has loaded in Logic, save it.
Now you can work on it.
This way there's no need to convert files.
I hope this helps.

One note, check the tempo used in the sonar project, and use the same tempo in logic.

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