SF vs SF Studio vs CD Architecht -Sound Forge - PC

Subject:SF vs SF Studio vs CD Architecht Posted by: JDStraub Date:7/30/2003 4:13:40 PM I'm trying to decide which product is best for creating mixes of tracks from different audio CDs. I would like to create mixes with cross-fades etc, and burn them to CD with index points at various parts of the mix. Given a large wav file in SF, I understand how I'd drop segments into CD burning software and burn them to CD without pauses. But how would I import the individual audio files into SF in the first place? Can SF import tracks directly from an audio CD, or is there an intermediate step required to first convert the track into a wav file? Would the process be any different using SF Studio or CD Architecht? Thanks, John
Subject:RE: SF vs SF Studio vs CD Architecht Reply by: MJhig Date:7/30/2003 4:26:26 PM Sound Forge will not burn DOA (Disk At Once) so it will not burn mixes with no gaps between tracks. It will however extract from CD (.cda) quite nicely (plus much, much more) and you can then set up regions and extract the regions to be burned by your burning software. I don't have CD Architect but if it extracts .cda then from what I've heard and what you want to do it may be the better choice. CD Architect users will probably be along but in the meantime you can use the links above to research this yourself. MJ
Subject:RE: SF vs SF Studio vs CD Architecht Reply by: Geoff_Wood Date:7/30/2003 11:10:44 PM CD Architect is what you need. You can graphically lay out the tracks, dragging across to create crossfades, adjusting relative levels/eq/etc per track, and writing to a CD in DAO mode. To do the same in SForge would be extremely fiddly and unweildy, esp wrt the crossafes, and as it only write TAO, the only options are for one long track, or individual tracks with 2 sec gaps (which kind of roots your crossfades ....) Tools \| Extract is the command to rip tracks from CD, pretty similarly in both applications. The track is extracted from CD as a wav file directly. It takes 3 clicks ! Try the CDA5 demo. geoff

Subject:SF vs SF Studio vs CD Architecht

Posted by: JDStraub

Date:7/30/2003 4:13:40 PM

I'm trying to decide which product is best for creating mixes of tracks from different audio CDs. I would like to create mixes with cross-fades etc, and burn them to CD with index points at various parts of the mix. Given a large wav file in SF, I understand how I'd drop segments into CD burning software and burn them to CD without pauses.

But how would I import the individual audio files into SF in the first place? Can SF import tracks directly from an audio CD, or is there an intermediate step required to first convert the track into a wav file? Would the process be any different using SF Studio or CD Architecht?

Thanks,

John

Subject:RE: SF vs SF Studio vs CD Architecht

Reply by: MJhig

Date:7/30/2003 4:26:26 PM

Sound Forge will not burn DOA (Disk At Once) so it will not burn mixes with no gaps between tracks. It will however extract from CD (*.cda) quite nicely (plus much, much more) and you can then set up regions and extract the regions to be burned by your burning software.

I don't have CD Architect but if it extracts *.cda then from what I've heard and what you want to do it may be the better choice. CD Architect users will probably be along but in the meantime you can use the links above to research this yourself.

MJ

Subject:RE: SF vs SF Studio vs CD Architecht

Reply by: Geoff_Wood

Date:7/30/2003 11:10:44 PM

CD Architect is what you need. You can graphically lay out the tracks, dragging across to create crossfades, adjusting relative levels/eq/etc per track, and writing to a CD in DAO mode. To do the same in SForge would be extremely fiddly and unweildy, esp wrt the crossafes, and as it only write TAO, the only options are for one long track, or individual tracks with 2 sec gaps (which kind of roots your crossfades ....)

Tools | Extract is the command to rip tracks from CD, pretty similarly in both applications. The track is extracted from CD as a wav file directly. It takes 3 clicks !

Try the CDA5 demo.

geoff