Professional Red Book Audio CD Mastering
Produce professional audio CDs to Red Book specification with CD Architect™ 5 software. Newly updated version 5.2 includes CD text reading and writing, and updated drive support. Perform full PQ code editing, trim events from full-length media and add as new tracks, import regions from Sound Forge® software as tracks, master audio by applying over 20 real-time DirectX® effects to events and the master output, and perform disc-at-once CD burning.
CD Architect software provides the most precise audio CD mastering and burning tools available. Arrange your CD Architect project using simple drag-and-drop operations. Produce complex crossfades and DJ-style megamixes. Generate multiple takes of a song to use in your project before burning. Create live-style CDs with audio in the time between tracks, apply volume envelopes and event ASR envelopes – even create hidden tracks. CD Architect software supports a long list of drives, including many FireWire and USB devices.
General Editing
| CD Text support |
| Support for up to 32-bit, 192kHz source audio |
| High-quality resampling and dithering with noiseshaping |
| Single or multi-file playlisting |
| Volume and ASR envelopes for any event |
| Multiple levels of undo/redo |
| Override validation errors option |
| Mono-to-stereo conversion on the fly |
| CD transport controls |
| Direct file open into Sound Forge® software |
| Track creation from Sound Forge regions |
| Trimmer window |
| Media Explorer |
| Ripple editing |
| CD Image file rendering |
| Automatic crossfades |
| Greater than 1:1 time zoom |
| Reading and extraction of PQ data along with audio tracks |
| Complete control over tracks, marker placements, and indices |
| Preview multiple tracks or ranges of audio before extraction from a supported CD device |
| Stereo master volume fader and adjustable envelope controls for any region. |
| Media Pool |
| Multiple file format support without conversion |
| Autosave crash recovery |
| Undo/redo history list |
| Supports MP3, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Windows Media® Audio, and more |
Mastering
| Over 20 real-time DirectX® plug-ins |
| Event and master bus effects model |
| Audio layering to create complex crossfades |
| Event Normalization |
| Real time pitch shift/time stretch |
| Slip trimming |
| Audio phase invert |
| Audio scrubbing |
| Unlimited volume envelope points |
CD Design
| Full PQ code editing support, including track and index positions and pause times |
| Absolute times for replication |
| Print cue sheets and format CD liner notes |
| Up to 99 tracks |
| Up to 99 subindices per track |
| Smart track reordering |
| Automatic pause time indication |
| Relative times for liner notes |
| Timeline event locking |
| Adjustable pause times |
| Audio CD player un-mute fade emulation |
CD Writing
| Burns disc-at-once premaster CDs for professional replication |
| USB, FireWire, SCSI and IDE/ATAPI CD-R and CD-RW drive support |
| Overburn support of 80 minute and other size CD-Rs |
| Buffer underrun protection |
| Test burn mode |
| PQ list verification for Red Book compatibility prior to burn |
| Burn speed selection |
| Copy-inhibit flags |
| Pre-emphasis flags |
| Audio clipping detection |
| International Standard Recording Codes (ISRC) |
| Universal Product Codes (UPC) |
| Media Catalog Numbers (MCN) |
- Microsoft® Windows® 2000 SP4, XP, or Windows Vista™
- 500 MHz processor
- 40 MB hard-disk space for program installation
- 128 MB RAM
- Windows-compatible sound card
- CD-ROM drive
- Supported CD-Recordable drive (for CD burning only)
- Microsoft DirectX® 8or later (included on CD-ROM)
- Internet Explorer 5.1 or later (included on CD-ROM)
Please Note: Some features may require product registration.
Import
 | Wave (.wav) |
| | CD Audio (.cda) |
| | CD Architect™ 4 or 5 project (.cdp) |
| | Audio Interchange File Format (.aif, .aiff) |
| | MPEG-1 Layer 3 (.mp3) |
| | Windows Media Audio (.wma) |
| | Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) |
| | QuickTime® audio (.qt, .mov) |
| | Perfect Clarity Audio (.pca) |
| | Wave64 (.w64) |
| | Sony Creative Software Audio (.sfa) |
| | Dialogic VOX ADPCM (.vox) |
| | Intervoice (.ivc) |
| | NeXT/Sun (.au, .snd) |
| | Sound Designer 1 (.dig, .sd) |
Export
| | Wave Image (.wav) |
| | CD Architect 5 Project (.cdp) |
