Comments on: Sonar MP3 Encoding with LAME

By: GregOdrums

GregOdrums — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:29:34 +0000

Thanks a heap – worked straight up in Sonar X1. Have your next beer on me! Cheers!

By: David

David — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:29:36 +0000

Just installed as per instructions with Sonar 8. Works seamlessly. Cheers.

By: Gomek

Gomek — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:34:39 +0000

Worked for me, instructions were very straight forward, thanks.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 04:06:30 +0000

This tutorial was impossibly helpful. Thank you very much. This will save everyone 20 dollars that they don’t need to spend.

*NOTE* FOR VISTA AND WINDOWS 7 USERS YOU MUST RUN THE ENCODER CONFIG AS ADMINISTRATOR FOR THE CHANGES TO TAKE EFFECT!

By: Aaron Bewza

Aaron Bewza — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:17:33 +0000

….or look me up on the Cakewalk Forums, look for more information about the patch in the developer’s section.

By: Aaron Bewza

Aaron Bewza — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:15:18 +0000

Aaron’s Sonar Patch v5.2

It’s got a cool easy-to-use interface and it works perfectly with Sonar X1 and all previous versions of Sonar. It adds ALL available mp3 options (44 separate options) directly into Sonar’s “Export Audio” menu, and uses Lame v3.98.4 as the encoder engines. Both 32 and 64-bit encoders are included, the correct one is automatically used.
It is 100% free, no strings ever. I could not afford my website this year, but you can email me for a copy:

blackwidowfarms (at) hotmail.com

I’m glad to be able to provide this patch for the audio community… cheers!
Aaron Bewza

By: Dude

Dude — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 01:36:06 +0000

Run the encoder config as administrator if you are in Windows 7, otherwise it will not save the lame setup.

By: JP Baker

JP Baker — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:34:08 +0000

Thank you all for the information on getting this up and running, It is information like this that inspires us all. Im using Vista 32/Sonar 7, and like others had a few problems getting this to work, but I did. Here’s my insight (from my install):

1) Do not copy and paste the information from the tutorial , type it into EncoderConfig.exe manually. This is because of unicode characters in the web page. Windows hates unicode . This was my first issue, and I solved it by typing the info in.

2)Make sure that the audio that you are exporting is set to 16 bit depth. 24, 32, and 64 bit depth do not export on my setup but 16 bit exports in all of the settings. I suspect that this is a limitation of mp3 itself as other exporter/convertors want 16 bit as well.

Hope this info helps any who are still stuck.

By: Jaylay

Jaylay — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:33:23 +0000

hi i am using sonar 7 home edition and i cant find the shared utilites or external encoder anywhere

By: PAF

PAF — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:14:05 +0000

Contrary to what Aaron says above, you can give yourself multiple easily selectable bitrate options by clicking the ‘new’ button (shown in the screenshot right at the top) and creating a new friendly name and matching set of lame command line switches for each option you need.

Each time you hit ‘new’, a new registry key matching the format shown by Blackangel above is created. This is how both the setup utility and Sonar ‘remember’ the settings.

Given the existence of the encoder setup utility and that messing with the registry isnt generally recommended, you shouldnt need to use .reg files unless you want to quickly transfer settings to a new machine.

If you must (!!) click start=>run=> and type regedit. Browse to and select [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT]\CakewalkExtAudioEncoders\ then click file=>export. This creates a .reg file which is actually just text. *.reg files are blocked by security programs, so they are best communicated as text (rename to *.txt). Renaming the file back to *.reg and double-clicking it on a target machine will add matching data to its registry and hence all your MP3 export options to Sonar.