Software for mastering a cd?

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Software for mastering a cd?

Post by twitchmonitor » Wed Mar 03, 2004 9:47 am

Clients of mine who often can't afford an actual mastering engineer ask me to at the very least sequence their cd for them and I've been using iTunes, but I'd like to find something that is a little more powerful. Here are the things I'd like it to do:

arrange tracks in order
set the space between each track (and not all the same: it might be one sec. between tracks 2 and 3, but 2 seconds between track 5 and 6)
do fades
be able to do stuff like add a hidden track.
and most importantly.....make sure all the tracks are about the same volume!

I'm running a Mac G4 with both OS9 and OSX.

What's out there that'll fit this bill?

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Re: Software for mastering a cd?

Post by cassembler » Wed Mar 03, 2004 11:52 am

Spark comes to mind, as does Toast and Jam, but if they make Wavelab or Sound Forge for Mac, check those out too.
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Re: Software for mastering a cd?

Post by kcrusher » Wed Mar 03, 2004 12:13 pm

Peak is also excellent.
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Re: Software for mastering a cd?

Post by Eiko » Wed Mar 03, 2004 4:35 pm

No mate, what you want is Emagic Waveburner. Shame it's discontinued, as far as I know. But if you hurry up, you might still get one.
The beauty of it, besides from being a red book burn program, it lets you do all your edits (set the gap between songs, over all volume, Xfades, even VST plugs etc) in a graphical rather than a numerical way.
Peak, as someone suggested, lets you create a playlist, which can be imported into Jam, which basically does the same as Waveburner, only that you don't see the waveforms, can't use VST plugs, move songs along by just dragging them etc...

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Re: Software for mastering a cd?

Post by Vartan K. » Thu Mar 04, 2004 6:19 pm

peak for mac

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Re: Software for mastering a cd?

Post by GhettoDuk » Thu Mar 04, 2004 10:49 pm

For PC people reading this thread, Sonic-Foundry's CD Architect will do the fades, the hidden tracks, fun with the time code (put a file in the countdown before the track starts, put a big blank space before a hidden song on the last track), etc.
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Re: Software for mastering a cd?

Post by Dr. Bell » Fri Mar 05, 2004 8:17 am

Did waveburner ever exist in an OSX version? I'm looking for the same sort of thing...

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Re: Software for mastering a cd?

Post by Poppatwang » Fri Mar 05, 2004 11:07 am

There's a real good chance Waveburner won't recognize the burner in your G4. Despite their claims to work with ALL shipped OEM Apple drives. So instead I resort to my old 7300 for burning red book CDs.

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Re: Software for mastering a cd?

Post by Eiko » Fri Mar 05, 2004 5:36 pm

No, I doubt theres a OSX version on WB, as I said I think it's now discontinued. But since twitchmonitor is running OS9 as well, I don't see why he couldn't go for WB.
BTW, it does recognise the burner in my G4...

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Re: Software for mastering a cd?

Post by Poppatwang » Mon Mar 08, 2004 1:14 pm

I've got a newer 1.2 ghz G4. Waveburner will not work in classic mode, but since I'm dual boot, it will launch in OS 9.2. Won't recognize the burner in mine & E-magic response is "uh, I dunno try the US distributor". The US distributor response is total silence. I like the program, just not the way it won't perform as advertised.

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