Subject:Marking Tracks

Posted by: AJ7

Date:7/2/2000 1:16:00 PM

I have created a long wave file and I need to mark the
tracks individually, before I burn to cd. How do I do it?

Help please

Alan

Subject:Re: Marking Tracks

Reply by: Jeff_Lowes

Date:7/6/2000 11:07:00 PM

It's very simple:
In Sound Forge, drop a marker ('m' on the keyboard) at the location
in the .wav file representing the STARTING point of each track. In
other words, place a marker at each point in your sound file that you
want a track index on your CD. After you have done this for the
entire file, go back and select the part of the file between the
marker for the start of track #1 and the marker for track #2 (double
click between the two markers) and then press 'r' on the keyboard. A
window should appear asking you to name the region that you are
creating between the 2 markers. Call it anything you want... track 1,
the name of the song, etc. Press 'enter'. Do this same thing for each
area between the markers that you dropped. Hint: you don't need to
worry about marking the END of the tracks, as you will see later.
Save the file and open CD Architect, or whatever program you are
using to burn your CDs. Add the .wav file to the audio pool. You
should see a plus sign next to the name of your file. Click on it and
you will see a list of all the regions that you created. Dbl click on
the region that you want to appear first on your CD and it will be
added to the playlist, its waveform will be shown and a track index
will be added to the PQ list. (You should slide the audio file
forward in time about 15 frames from the index.) If you want equal
spacing between tracks, be sure to set that up in the preferences
section. Dbl click on the next region you want to add from the audio
pool and repeat the process until all regions have been added.
Hints: Unless you want the material after the end of one song to be
present before the next one starts, you will have to create a fade-
out to remove it and then drag the end track marker back to the end
of the fade. You should do this before adding the next region to the
playlist. If you want the recorded material at the end of a song to
be present on the CD before the next one starts (as in a live
recording), don't do a fade-out but drag the next song backward in
time so that it butts up to the end of the previous cut. (There's
room for creativity here using crossfades.) You will also have to
drag the index markers (front and back) backward to line up with the
song start and end points.
It's a good idea to check all of your track indexes after you are
finished building the CD. Architect has a really cool CD Emulator
function that makes this very easy. Also, until you get the hang of
placing indexes, especially ones in unusual places, you should do a
test burn before actually doing the real take. If you have any
errors, your program should let you know.
Good luck!
Jeff Lowes
On-Track Recording

Alan Tomlnson wrote:
>>
>>I have created a long wave file and I need to mark the
>>tracks individually, before I burn to cd. How do I do it?
>>
>>Help please
>>
>>Alan

Subject:Re: Marking Tracks

Reply by: MJim

Date:7/7/2000 11:15:00 PM

You can speed that up a little after placing your markers; go
to "special" in the menu, choose "Regions list" then "marker to
regions". Your marked areas automatically become regions. Then open
the regions list view, double click each one and name it.

On-Track Recording wrote:
>>It's very simple:
>>In Sound Forge, drop a marker ('m' on the keyboard) at the location
>>in the .wav file representing the STARTING point of each track. In
>>other words, place a marker at each point in your sound file that
you
>>want a track index on your CD. After you have done this for the
>>entire file, go back and select the part of the file between the
>>marker for the start of track #1 and the marker for track #2
(double
>>click between the two markers) and then press 'r' on the keyboard.
A
>>window should appear asking you to name the region that you are
>>creating between the 2 markers. Call it anything you want... track
1,
>>the name of the song, etc. Press 'enter'. Do this same thing for
each
>>area between the markers that you dropped. Hint: you don't need to
>>worry about marking the END of the tracks, as you will see later.
>>Save the file and open CD Architect, or whatever program you are
>>using to burn your CDs. Add the .wav file to the audio pool. You
>>should see a plus sign next to the name of your file. Click on it
and
>>you will see a list of all the regions that you created. Dbl click
on
>>the region that you want to appear first on your CD and it will be
>>added to the playlist, its waveform will be shown and a track index
>>will be added to the PQ list. (You should slide the audio file
>>forward in time about 15 frames from the index.) If you want equal
>>spacing between tracks, be sure to set that up in the preferences
>>section. Dbl click on the next region you want to add from the
audio
>>pool and repeat the process until all regions have been added.
>>Hints: Unless you want the material after the end of one song to be
>>present before the next one starts, you will have to create a fade-
>>out to remove it and then drag the end track marker back to the end
>>of the fade. You should do this before adding the next region to
the
>>playlist. If you want the recorded material at the end of a song to
>>be present on the CD before the next one starts (as in a live
>>recording), don't do a fade-out but drag the next song backward in
>>time so that it butts up to the end of the previous cut. (There's
>>room for creativity here using crossfades.) You will also have to
>>drag the index markers (front and back) backward to line up with
the
>>song start and end points.
>>It's a good idea to check all of your track indexes after you are
>>finished building the CD. Architect has a really cool CD Emulator
>>function that makes this very easy. Also, until you get the hang of
>>placing indexes, especially ones in unusual places, you should do a
>>test burn before actually doing the real take. If you have any
>>errors, your program should let you know.
>>Good luck!
>>Jeff Lowes
>>On-Track Recording
>>
>>Alan Tomlnson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>I have created a long wave file and I need to mark the
>>>>tracks individually, before I burn to cd. How do I do it?
>>>>
>>>>Help please
>>>>
>>>>Alan