Oh man, I feel like a freakin kid in the candy shop right now. I just got done exporting my tracks that I produced under the Sekond project, and I will explain why I am so happy...

You see, for the longest time, actually I believe up until this year I was given the notion that mp3 was good enough for archiving. So 320kbps was high quality and perfect to store my personal music. I knew MP3 was lossy, not too sure why I never thought of the concept of going lossless. I guess it didn't make sense to store a song averaging about 10mb per minute (given this was before I really played around with any kind of codec, so 10mb per minute for uncompressed PCM).

It wasn't just the fact that MP3 was lossy, it was also the limitations of MP3. You pretty much maxed out at 48Khz/16bit. Sure it makes sense currently because CDs run at 44Khz/16bit, but a lot of the music I was exporting when creating tracks were at least 24bit. I really never thought about it when I completed the sekond project some 3 years ago.

Fast-forward to now, wanting to export my music to a lossless codec, and also export some instrumentals. Luckily I took advantage of Cakewalks bundling where I can just export all the tracks from MIDI to PCM, so I wouldn't have to re-hook all of my equipment (and spend $$$ on a midi controller/audio interface) So I loaded up Sonar 8 on my computer and what happens? the damn thing begins freaking out on me. I would try to load up a cakewalk bundle file and it kept saying that some audio information was missing. Man, I wanted to cry, because it wasn't working, I wondered if I fucked up somewhere and pretty much lost all my data or something. So I gave up and uninstalled Sonar.

Then I got to thinking... When I finished the Sekond project, I was on Windows XP 32-bit. And I tried to load up the bundles on a 64-bit version of Sonar 8 in Windows 7... maybe... just maybe... it would work under 32-bit XP.

So I loaded up my trusty Virtual PC with windows xp, and installed sonar on there. Sure I couldn't play any of the tracks, but I could export them. I was so excited, to where I decided not to sleep, and continue exporting all the tracks. A total of 34 tracks including instrumentals and older mixes. I am one happy camper :)

Now that I am done exporting the Sonar files, next I need to export other files from like fruityloops... and hell, maybe even go back to exporting some MixMan and Magix files from the Kn0 F8 project. Oh fun stuff!