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Burning CDs 279
Burning CDs
Burning Red Book-compatible audio CDs is a vital feature of Samplitude Music Studio
2013. You won't require any other software for writing a CD. You can also write CDs
"on the fly", and all processing is performed in real time during the write process.
Since trackbouncing was not performed first and no image is created, no extra space
is required on the hard disk.
However, sufficient system resources must be available for processing while writing.
If your PC is too slow and writing is interrupted, then you can of course revert to the
conventional trackbouncing method.
Writing
Some years ago, there was only a small number of select studios which were able to
do CD mastering. Today, writing audio CDs is nothing exceptional and continuously
dropping prices for CD-R burners and media make them available to nearly everyone.
The audio material is stored digitally on the CD, this data is read by the CD player,
and then it is transformed back to the analog plane. While in action, track indexes
indicate to the CD player which songs start at which position.
Samplitude Music Studio 2013 can also write an audio CD from the program directly.
Before the write process starts, the track indexes are directly set in the VIP window,
and then Samplitude Music Studio 2013 converts stereo sum and indexes into a data
stream which is fed to the CD burner.
The CD-R drive modifies an assigned layer of the medium by means of a laser so that
an audio CD player can read this information as digital audio data later on.
Burning CDs in Samplitude Music Studio 2013
1. Record individual CD tracks in Samplitude Music Studio 2013 import WAV files into
VIP tracks.
2. Mix your recordings using realtime functions of the VIP windows and the Mixer
windows. The CD will sound exactly as what you hear as the playback from a stereo
sound card. All settings for playback will be audible on the CD.
3. Set the track markers to mark the start positions of individual songs. If the VIP
window has only one stereo track in which each song is laid down as a separate
object, you can create track markers using the "Automatic indices" button in
Samplitude Music Studio 2013. An index is set at the beginning of every object. In
Samplitude Music Studio 2013 tracks and indices can be arranged in any order.