How to get your music from your Daw to a Pro Tools session.

In a recient discussion on another post is this forum it seemed to be aparent that alot of musicians were un aware of how to get recordings done in home studios, on lower cost systems such as Sonar, Logic, Cubase SX/Nuendo transfered to pro studio's perfered format the Big DAWg Pro Tools. What you do is save your song then export the opened file as OMF.
Now keep in mind that this format was created by Digidesigne and intended for xfers from Avid to Pro Tools however not all pro tools owners may have the import option installed. My only reason for posting this is to inform "you", the user that it is posible to just bring a CDR containing all your tracks seperated - to a large facility for mix down. Now that is simple. Other transfering formats are Open TL and AES31. Do a search and expand your mind.

Yep, any studio with a bit of common sense (and business sense) will be able to accept your stuff as long as you've separated the tracks - either as individualy files or something like a multitrack WAV file. No need to worry about ProTools - many of the studios near me dont use it exclusively (some dont have it at all), and the ones that do are happy to accept your tracks in any form you desire - after all, you're the one paying them - who gives a toss whether you use Protools or not, I haven't got any time for all that elitist clap-trap.

What's important for me is that a studio has engineers with good technical knowledge of the equipment they use every day of their lives (doesn't matter what equipment - as long as they know how to use it!)

Multitrack wave file?

Whoa. How does that work? What program makes it and can read it?

Thanks Tute,

ed

My Akai DPS16 can export its tracks as a 16 track WAV file. Pretty big file (i.e. 16 times the size of a single mono file) - software like Nuendo accepts them, probably most multi-track software does (or will).

Alternatively, you can just save each track individualy as a normal WAV file and take it down the studio and load them in one at a time to whatever software/hardware they use.

That's pretty pucking cool. Cubase / logic should do this, have an integrated file with all wav's and seq info, instead of saving different files in different locations.

Alternatively, you can just save each track individualy as a normal WAV file and take it down the studio and load them in one at a time to whatever software/hardware they use.

I have mixed clients that use this way. They were using fruity loops some used acid but i am glad to know that you can save seperated tracks individually on the Hard disk recorders. Silly me never thought of that, not that I was ever asked. This just gose to show that what ever you are working with has an opertunity to be developed as far as you want to take it. God Bless......