Sampling rates

Cakewalk supports all common sampling rates. Only one sampling rate is allowed per project. It’s usually better not to change the sampling rate of a project, because this involves exporting your tracks one at a time, and then importing them at the new sampling rate. During this process you lose clip boundaries, envelopes, and other separate data that is mixed into the exported tracks.

To set the sampling rate for new projects

1.	Go to Edit > Preferences > Audio - Driver Settings and change the Sampling Rate field to the desired number. You can choose from the available options, or enter any number that your hardware supports.

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Click OK.

To change the sampling rate of a project

1.	Select all audio tracks in the project, then go to File > Export Audio to open the Export Audio dialog box.

2.	Under What To Export, set Source Category to Tracks.

3.	Under Format, set Sample Rate to the new target sample rate.

4.	Click Export to export all tracks as individual files.

5.	After you have exported all the tracks you want to convert, go to Edit > Preferences > Audio - Driver Settings and change the Sampling Rate field to the desired number.

6.	Use the File > New command to open a new project and specify the desired sample rate.

7.	Use the File > Import > Audio command to open the Import Audio dialog box.

8.	Select the audio files you just exported (hold down the CTRL key while you click each one), and click Open to import the files.

Cakewalk imports the selected files at the new sampling rate.

9.	Copy/Paste everything else from the old project to the new one.

To import audio that has a different sampling rate

Use the File > Import > Audio command to import the audio file(s) (this converts them to the project sampling rate).