Sony Acid 7, whats up with the cd burning function -ACID Product Family

Subject:Sony Acid 7, whats up with the cd burning function Posted by: Jimmy86 Date:2/13/2016 12:06:30 AM I just burned 10 CD's with some self made tracks straight from sony acid 7 with the burn to disc functionallity. 6 out of 10 CD's wouldn't play when testing them in my CD player. What is up with that? Really bad and unprofessional if you ask me, it were CD's with a custom full color print on it (Which I had to pay for), so now I wasted 6 of them, thanks Sony!!
Subject:RE: Sony Acid 7, whats up with the cd burning function Reply by: Geoff_Wood Date:2/13/2016 6:01:54 PM Maybe try getting better quality CDs, print them after burning, get a better burner, update burner firmware, disable any AV or other surperflous apps, get more memory, get a more powerful computer, etc,etc, etc. So many potential contributors without throwing your touys out of the cot at Acid ! FWIW I wouldn't dream of using Acid to burn more than one or two 'rush' copies of a piece. My normal procedure for multiple burns would be to render to a WAV and burn CD-Rs with a specialised CD burner application, even a simple one. That takes the processing load of a plugin chain (and maybe even some VSTi) for every disc burned out of the equation of potential 'gotchas'. Apart from that, I don't think I've ever had a dud CD-R out of an Acid burn, so noting inherently flawed there ... geoff
Subject:RE: Sony Acid 7, whats up with the cd burning function Reply by: Jimmy86 Date:2/15/2016 11:09:35 PM Thanks for the reply, My PC is good enough for burning CD's, it is not 1998 anymore, so we can close that. What I've done is this: render al the seperate tracks to seperate WAV files (with the vst and pluging chains already included, so this has to be no issue), put them in a single acid file and inserted CD track markers at the beginning of each wave file and used no VST's or plugins while doing this and then burned it. It is a bit strange for me to use an external CD burn program while Acid offers you the function to burn CD's straight from itself. So there are 2 simple options left in this issue: or Acid is messing something up, or my CD burner is broken.
Subject:RE: Sony Acid 7, whats up with the cd burning function Reply by: Geoff_Wood Date:2/16/2016 3:02:18 PM No. There are many things that can mess up CDs. That any of the discs played would tend to indicate no Acid problem. Do any of the 'dud' discs play ok in any other CD players, computer, etc ? It's not like there are zillions of posts here saying that there is some major Acid CD-burning issue smouldering away ;-) Though some applications (in general) do tend to not work great with USB CD burners. But again, I would not do it this way. I would burn one master disc in Acid, test it, and then use a simple CD-Copy type app to make the copies. This, though not covering all possible issues, makes interesting reading [link]http://www.digitalfaq.com/guides/media/dvd-tests.htm

Subject:Sony Acid 7, whats up with the cd burning function

Posted by: Jimmy86

Date:2/13/2016 12:06:30 AM

I just burned 10 CD's with some self made tracks straight from sony acid 7 with the burn to disc functionallity. 6 out of 10 CD's wouldn't play when testing them in my CD player. What is up with that? Really bad and unprofessional if you ask me, it were CD's with a custom full color print on it (Which I had to pay for), so now I wasted 6 of them, thanks Sony!!

Subject:RE: Sony Acid 7, whats up with the cd burning function

Reply by: Geoff_Wood

Date:2/13/2016 6:01:54 PM

Maybe try getting better quality CDs, print them *after* burning, get a better burner, update burner firmware, disable any AV or other surperflous apps, get more memory, get a more powerful computer, etc,etc, etc. So many potential contributors without throwing your touys out of the cot at Acid !

FWIW I wouldn't dream of using Acid to burn more than one or two 'rush' copies of a piece. My normal procedure for multiple burns would be to render to a WAV and burn CD-Rs with a specialised CD burner application, even a simple one. That takes the processing load of a plugin chain (and maybe even some VSTi) for every disc burned out of the equation of potential 'gotchas'.

Apart from that, I don't think I've ever had a dud CD-R out of an Acid burn, so noting inherently flawed there ...

geoff

Subject:RE: Sony Acid 7, whats up with the cd burning function

Reply by: Jimmy86

Date:2/15/2016 11:09:35 PM

Thanks for the reply,

My PC is good enough for burning CD's, it is not 1998 anymore, so we can close that.

What I've done is this: render al the seperate tracks to seperate WAV files (with the vst and pluging chains already included, so this has to be no issue), put them in a single acid file and inserted CD track markers at the beginning of each wave file and used no VST's or plugins while doing this and then burned it. It is a bit strange for me to use an external CD burn program while Acid offers you the function to burn CD's straight from itself.

So there are 2 simple options left in this issue: or Acid is messing something up, or my CD burner is broken.

Subject:RE: Sony Acid 7, whats up with the cd burning function

Reply by: Geoff_Wood

Date:2/16/2016 3:02:18 PM

No. There are many things that can mess up CDs. That any of the discs played would tend to indicate no Acid problem. Do any of the 'dud' discs play ok in any other CD players, computer, etc ?

It's not like there are zillions of posts here saying that there is some major Acid CD-burning issue smouldering away ;-) Though some applications (in general) do tend to not work great with USB CD burners.

But again, I would not do it this way. I would burn one master disc in Acid, test it, and then use a simple CD-Copy type app to make the copies.

This, though not covering all possible issues, makes interesting reading [link]http://www.digitalfaq.com/guides/media/dvd-tests.htm