Export Issue

[jack witjes]

Hello Forums: Export Issue

I have a question about Sonar Export - Source Search.
With 150 songs, I followed the normal selection procedure and can export from Sonar.
However, for one song, nothing appears in the Source window instead of my Audient iD14 1/2.
What's wrong here, and how can I fix it?
It doesn't matter whether I export from file or control bar.
Is there perhaps another way to export and select that I'm not aware of?

Thanks in advance for your attention.
Regards, Jack

[David Baay]

I would guess that the Master bus is assigned to None; do you hear playback through those outputs?

The simple solution is to export with Source = Buses and choose only the Master (Ctrl+Shift-click it first to deselect all buses and then re-select just the Master). Exporting the Master bus is SOP for me.

[57Gregy]

8 hours ago, jack witjes said:

Hello Forums: Export Issue

I have a question about Sonar Export - Source Search.
With 150 songs, I followed the normal selection procedure and can export from Sonar.
However, for one song, nothing appears in the Source window instead of my Audient iD14 1/2.
What's wrong here, and how can I fix it?
It doesn't matter whether I export from file or control bar.
Is there perhaps another way to export and select that I'm not aware of?

Thanks in advance for your attention.
Regards, Jack

Right. Are you even using busses?
And welcome to the forum.

[jack witjes]

Hi Greg,
Good question, I can't explain what's happening myself.
Normal selection with Ctrl+A, then File Export.
But now I notice that all the buses are automatically selected.
This doesn't happen with the other projects.
Perhaps that's the problem, but I can't figure it out myself.
Do you know how this is possible?

Regards, Jack

[jack witjes]

Hi David,
It makes no difference whether I select Channels or Buses, or just the Master.
The result is always that all Channels and Buses are automatically selected via File Export.
I can't figure it out myself because I've never experienced this in SONAR, where the Source windows don't display anything.
Perhaps you know a solution.

Thanks in advance,
Jack

[jack witjes]

Maybe someone else can comment on my SONAR Export Issue.

Is this a common thing?

Am I accidentally using the wrong setting somewhere?

Thanks 

Jack

[Bristol_Jonesey]

7 minutes ago, jack witjes said:

Am I accidentally using the wrong setting somewhere?

Show us a screenshot of your Export settings

[David Baay]

4 hours ago, jack witjes said:

Normal selection with Ctrl+A, then File Export.

It's not necessary to select anything if you want to export the whole project. Selecting nothing will give the same result. Selection is really only necesary when you want to export something less than everything.

Also, when I say "select only the Master bus", I mean in the export dialog. It's expected that when you first export and choose Buses as the source that all buses will be selected by default. Once you've exported with the desired settings, re-saving the project will save that as the default export configuration or you can save that export setup as a Task if you won't always be exporting with the same settings.

Your interface ouputs should be listed when you choose Hardware Ouputs as the the Source Category unless the device became unavailable before or after launching Sonar, or nothing is routed to it.

[Bass Guitar]

Did you try using one of the presets? 
For mixdown this is usually “Entire Mix” 

Below is what the default would look like. Notice the tracks and buses are not even selected but still the export included everything going to the Hardware outputs. I didn't set any Start or end markers on this project, I usually do. 

 

Edited 16 hours ago by Bass Guitar

[jack witjes]

Okay, again.

149 song tracks work with the default Export setting.
Only one song has this problem, even though I haven't changed anything myself.
That's why I can't find an explanation.
The standard procedure is to use Project or Selection when I want to Export a section.
Why doesn't the Source window display anything for only one song/track out of 150?
I'm at a loss.

[Bass Guitar]

So that is what I thought you were saying. In other words you see the exact settings shown in my screen shot but the source dialogue is empty? 
What happens if you click on the drop down menu above and choose other options? Is that also blank? 
 

It might be a contaminated project otherwise. 
All you can try then is to start a fresh project and drag everything to it. I’ve had to do that myself a few times. 

[jack witjes]

Last attempt.

The export screen displays a warning via the Control bar Export:

: An invalid parameter was given to this command.

As far as I know, I did everything as usual.

[jack witjes]

Hi Bass

It's extra strange that this track was initially exported normally six months ago.
What do you mean by "infected?" I only use original purchased software.

The track also plays normally through my Audient iD14.

[jack witjes]

[Bass Guitar]

A contaminated project is what we often call projects that are abnormal and behaving weird. 
There is often no explanation, it is simply that the project has issues that cannot be resolved.

I think just about everyone who has used Sonar for a long time has run into this situation. 

After all, it’s pretty complicated software and all it takes is one little bite out of place. Lots of things outside the software can cause this like a bad sector on a hard drive. 

So when this happens instead of trying to figure out “why “ it is often easier to just rebuild the project in a fresh new environment. 
 

Often this can be done by opening a blank project beside the old project and then dragging and dropping track by track. 

Did you try the drop down menu for source? 
 

In 
 

 

[Bristol_Jonesey]

1 hour ago, jack witjes said:

Well you do not need dithering on unless you're reducing bit depth. 

You're exporting at 24 bit, so if the project is at 24 bit then turn dithering OFF

It might not solve your problem but you will have eliminated a possibility