Omf help

The engineer at the studio that I record at, says that I need to bring my beats in omf format so that he can edit individual sounds instead of the entire audio track together. I don't have a program that saves as omf. What can I do? The studio uses Logic, if that matters to anyone...

OMF stands for Open Media Format. It allows sessions created using one program(Pro Tools for example) to be opend by another program(Sonar, Logic, Cubase, etc.) and keeps times, files names and such all in place.

Most apps have an OMF tool, some are extra options you have to buy.

If you can't get a hold of an OMF tool that works with your program(which you failed to mention by the way) you can bounce down each individual file, place them on a cd and take 'em to the studio. This is very time consuming and of course not very convenient for the engineer working on your tracks although importing everything shouldnt be hard at all. Just make sure to export every track from the very beginning regardless of the lenght or edits of particular tracks. So if the length of the song is 3 minutes, all tracks sould be 3 minutes long, get it?

On my PC i have audacity, Soundforge, and Acid 2.0

If neithter of those programs have have OMF export, the workaround would be to export all tracks as single audio files. Do this from the start of the song to the end of the song, for each track. This means that if a sound doesn't come in until the chorus, you'll have a lot of digital silence on that file before the sound comes in, but it also means the engineer can just dump all files into the project at the same start time and everything will line up, sample-accurately. The digital silence won't cause any problems, exept that your song folders will be way larger.

Thanks