How do you convert 24-bit AIFF files into something I can import into Sonar????

[chigotgo]

So I did a session at a pro-tools studio and got the files on DVD as 24-bit AIFF Files and now I'm trying to import them into Sonar to do some preliminary mixing and Sonar wont import these 24-bit aiff files.

You would think Sonar could import these...but of course it has to be difficult doesn't it.

Is there a program that I can covert these to something I can use??????

[theblue1]

What version?

Older versions apparently relied on external codecs (DirectShow, perhaps?) for conversion and while it could import 16 bit AIFF in that fashion, from my scanning of the Sonar forum at CW just now, it looked like the conversion process choked on 24 bit.

But it *appears* that Sonar 7 will import a wide variety of AIFF's:

FF (Apple/SGI) (extension "aif")
Signed 8 bit PCM
Signed 16 bit PCM
Signed 24 bit PCM
Signed 32 bit PCM
Unsigned 8 bit PCM
32 bit float
64 bit float

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If you have an older version of Sonar, perhaps you could use something like SoundForge for the AIFF to WAV conversion. (As I understand it, the conversion process is essentially lossless, more a reformatting sort of thing.)



With regard to why it (it, the great undefined it, you know, the one that they are responsible for ) always has to be difficult... I dunno.

But as long as I've been doing recording -- and that predates the digital era -- it certainly often has been.

It's just the way it is... and likely always will be.

[Solar]

As it was mentioned above, if you have Sonar 7 latest version and updates, you're good to go, it can read AIFF. Now if thats not the case for you, maybe something like this would be better for you, its a BUNCH audio converter and i think its the only software converter that reads as many file audio formats existing in the market. Try this out:

AWave Studio, the swiss knife audio file converter

http://www.fmjsoft.com/awframe.html

Go under format and read all the supported ones.

Good luck!!

[chigotgo]

Hahaha....good quote about "it" always happening including in the days before digital.....that's actually when I got my start in the mid 90's where everyone recorded to dat/adat and you had to rewind if you didint like the take and do it all over again....even then "it" always happened with one piece of gear or another...

Luckily I can come on this forum and get my answers questioned by sheer audio geniuses