Subject:finishing touches.....

Posted by: August

Date:10/16/2001 12:24:38 PM

When I've completed a project what do I do to burn to CD?

Subject:RE: finishing touches.....

Reply by: Ted_H

Date:10/16/2001 2:08:08 PM

Make sure that you have the audio file open in Sound Forge. Now go to the "Tools" menu and select "Create CD." Make sure to select "Close Disc" when you're done adding tracks.

Ted

Subject:RE: finishing touches.....

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:10/16/2001 2:10:33 PM

I'm assuming you have either ACID Music 3 or ACID Pro 3, since those are the only versions that let you burn right to CD. (I know ACID Pro 2 let you burn to CD as well but don't know about Music 2.)

If you want to burn to CD right from ACID, keep in mind that your project should not clip, or you'll end up with pops, clicks and glitches in the resulting burn. This tips pertains not only to the overall master level but any effect levels as well.

In the same token for burning to CD straight from ACID, depending upon the complexity of the project, you might want to think about bouncing down your tracks to preserve processing power. Burning itself takes a lot of horsepower, imagine how your system would feel if there are, say, 40 tracks all with effects that it has to burn as one project to CD. Not only does your system have to burn to CD, but it also has to do real-time processing of the effects as well while converting over to CD audio.

It'd be better if tracks were bounced down, complete with effects already applied.

To bounce down or render to a new track, use CTRL+M on your keyboard. Be sure to solo only the tracks you want to bounce down before doing CTRL+M. Otherwise, ACID will assume you want to bounce down the whole project to one track.

Once you bounce down and create a new track, you can delete the original tracks.

The way I do it? Since I have ACID Pro 3 and Sound Forge XP Studio 5, I usually just render my project to WAV, do my tweaking in Sound Forge (like normalizing), and then burn the result using Roxio's Easy CD Creator.

You could use ACID's CD burning capability as well, but be sure not to close the CD until you add *all* the tracks you want, since closing the CD will prevent any future burning to that CD. Also, you shouldn't try to play a CD that isn't closed in a CD player unless the CD player is multisession capable.

Be sure to also burn straight from ACID to CD using 16-bit, 44,100 Hz project properties, since this is the standard for audio CD's.

Whew. I think that's about it.

HTH,
Iacobus

Subject:RE: finishing touches.....

Reply by: August

Date:10/17/2001 7:11:10 AM

What exactly do you mean by "bouncing down" because I do notice in some of my projects an occasional pop or glitch, also in some tracks with Highs I get a slight distortion at playback but only when played in conjunction with the others in the project.

Subject:RE: finishing touches.....

Reply by: Ted_H

Date:10/17/2001 9:08:40 AM

Don't listen to me, I was in the wrong forum when I replied to this one :)

Ted

Subject:RE: finishing touches.....

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:10/17/2001 1:09:44 PM

Hmmm, I don't know what would be causing the slight distortion. (What sound card are you using?)

"Bouncing down" is the ability of taking multiple tracks, even those with effects, and merging them as one new track.

To do this in ACID, you have to solo only those tracks that you want to blend together as one and then use CTRL+M on your keyboard.

Note that doing this will create a brand new track. Usually, the tracks combined, if longer than 30 seconds (the default), will become Beatmapped (or Disk-Based) tracks. These types of tracks depend a lot on the performance of your hard drive(s), so be sure to bounce down only so many tracks; roughly 4 or less should do it. Also be sure to scandisk and defrag the drives you intend on using.

ANOTHER NOTE (IDEA?): If you don't like the idea of using the hard disk for playing back the track instead of RAM (which would be faster), try this trick:

Under "Options>Preferences" on the menu bar, click the "Audio" tab and set the "Open files as loops if between (seconds)" setting to your liking. The number on the left indicates anything shorter than that value will open as a One-Shot, while the number on the right indicates anything longer than that value will open as a Beatmapped track. Obviously, setting the value on the right to a larger value will ensure that an intended track will open as a Loop. Take note of the properties of the type of track as well. (For example, One-Shots don't have any stretching properties like Loop type tracks do.)

BE VERY, VERY CAREFUL. Since One-Shots and Loop type tracks use RAM, only those with a lot of RAM should attempt this. Just one long One-Shot or Loop can use a huge chunk of your RAM. Can you say, "CRRRR-AAASSSH!!!"?

HTH,
Iacobus

Subject:RE: finishing touches.....

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:10/17/2001 2:01:04 PM

I failed to mentioned in my last post that 300 seconds (or 5 minutes) is the setting limit for the right value on the "Open files as loops" option. (Still not bad though.)

Again, be very careful.

Iacobus