CDA Replacement

SeanC wrote on 9/12/2001, 8:14 PM
I talked with a friend today who told me about
Magix Audio Cleaning Lab

He said it's available for around $40 and offers a cheap alternative to the function of CDA. It's not nearly as robust, but apparently does offer overlaping, droping and moving track markers, and supports new MMC drives.

Anyone have any experience? For $40 it's worth a try. I can't help but think this market is ripe for someone to come out with a $99 program that does this. I know we'd all buy it tomorrow if it was there. Looking for a good replacement...

Sean

Comments

bferber49 wrote on 9/14/2001, 1:36 PM
I have had experience with Magix's Audio Studio DeLuxe and I like it a LOT.... I posted a notice on this forum earlier, saying that I thought it lacked ripple editing, but I was wrong it DOES have drag and drop... and even custom keyboard assignments which CDA did not have (that I remember). TRY IT! It's cheap and effective and has a good TIMELINE set up just like CDA.
Almost every feature for editing and even some FX and noise reduction applications... Supports ME and 2000 and they say they are preparing for XP... I have noticed a few little bugs, but who doesn't experience this? You can doctor stuff in Sound Forge and import files etc... GOOD STUFF!
Burning2nite wrote on 9/20/2001, 3:57 PM
I found a copy of Audio Cleaning Lab for only $10.00 and it worked like a charm. I was able to burn a continously mixed cd without any pauses between tracks.
This is great news because being that only certain rewrites worked with CD Architect, I've been a prisoner of my Sony USB Spressa cd burner for too long. The burner is unreliable and basically sucks. Now I can get a Plextor and tell Sony to F*@K off...:)
bferber49 wrote on 9/26/2001, 6:34 PM
MAGIX's Audio Cleaning Lab is only one of several audio mastering products... The best for CD burning is Music Studio Generation 6 DELUXE, because it lets you run 1280 x 1024 resolution, and re-size the timeline etc...which Audio Cleaning Lab will not... plus it does many more things than Audio Cleaning Lab, which is primarily used to clean up vinyl records, etc. It would not be a bad thing to have both, at $60 each roughly, that's cheap! By the way, I wanted to post this message as a reply here, but accidentally posted it as a new message listed on this date 9-26-01. Sorry for the repetition! Hope it gets the word out...it's available at MAGIX.com or at Best Buy etc.
SeanC wrote on 9/27/2001, 8:43 PM
is Music Studio Generation 6 Deluxe by Magix? Who makes it? Can you point me to a link?

I've tried for days to get CDA to work well with Win XP and I'm just not ready to play with the registry. If I can get another program that will let me drop track markers at ceratin points and mix two stereo wav's, I'm all set.

Thanks!
TheMiracle wrote on 9/27/2001, 10:30 PM
WaveLab 3.04 Audio Montage Option Make Everything That CdA Does And More, Becouse You Can (Through The Master Section) Add Any Direct X Plug In,(Including All Of Sonic Foundry), In This Way You Only Have To Arrange One Time Only, eg The Noise Reduction If You Want To, And Stereo Expander, Or What EVEr You want, Like Restoring Old Vinyl, All You Have To Do Is Put Your Settings In the Master Section, You Don't Have To Wait Any Process, Nothing Thats It, You Listen In Real Time How Is Going To Sound Later, And Then Burn Your CD, With All Of Your Favorite PlugIns and Effects In It, also you have the track markers, and you have many more options like many crossfade forms, CD Text, More Formats Support (Like Mp3), Red Book Comp, well everything is in it, if you want something to edit manipulate and burn music, This is the best i have try, and i have cdarchitect to, but is Obsolet Now, I Like It Better WaveLab, That's My Thought, Here Is The Link To It

http://www.steinberg.net/products/ps/wavelab/wavelab3/index.phtml?sid=02254647

Max The Miracle Sterling
carter_cj wrote on 9/29/2001, 2:54 AM
I've also been using Wavelab 3.04 recently and I think it's a good replacement for CDA. The only thing about it I don't like is that the integrated CD burning feature doesn't support Burn-proof (or CD Text as far as I can tell but I just got it) and the way it makes disc images is inefficient compared to burning a .cdp file directly (using CDP Burn 1.10). It has more options than CDA+Sound Forge, but because of that isn't quite as easy to use. I use it in conjuction with Nero 5 by exporting each CD track as a seperate file and then burning from Nero with the pause time set to 0 sec (except track 1).
I still prefer CDA when all I want to do is track mark a file/files that are otherwise ready to burn. It's faster and easier.
-Chris