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One of my first fears with switching to Pro Tools was the fact that I would not be able to use the 100 plus Cakewalk projects I have created over the past 4 or 5 years (yes I do have projects from that far back). Luckily for me I have always used Cakewalk’s per project audio files option, which keeps recorded audio in a project folder, instead of a general audio folder. This made my job somewhat easier (it’s still not painless though).

One of the first things they tell you on the Pro Tools getting started DVD is to name your tracks before you record! Recorded clips or regions will take the name of from the track they are recorded onto. So if you have a track named “Acoustic Guitar 1″, the resulting name of a recorded region will be “Acoustic_Guitar_1-01″ or something along those lines. If you did not name the track before hand, than it will take the name “track 1-01″ or “Audio 1-01″ …etc. You can see that if you had 50 or 60 regions or tracks in a project file it could get confusing if the tracks aren’t named logically. For some of my old Sonar projects, I did name tracks up front…..however some I did not, or I had a mix of both. So I could see that simply importing one region/clip wav file at a time, and trying to rebuild a project was going to be almost impossible, because in some cases I have 7 or 8 different clips/regions that make up one track. A vocal comp could be even worse!
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