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298 Burning CDs
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Burning CDs
Burning Red Book-compatible audio CDs is a vital feature of
Samplitude 11 Producer. You won't require any other software for
writing a CD. You can also write CDs "on the fly", and all processing
is performed in real time during the write process. Since
trackbouncing was not performed first and no image is created, no
extra space is required on the hard disk.
However, sufficient system resources must be available for
processing while writing. If your PC is too slow and writing is
interrupted, then you can of course revert to the conventional
trackbouncing method.
Red Book
To standardize the data structure of CDs and to make them
compatible with the CD drives, Sony and Philips laid down individual
standards for the various types of CDs. The names simply arose from
the color of the books in which these standards were recorded. The
term "Red Book" is common language for the Compact Disc Audio
Standard. The requirements listed here have to be observed for
industrial CD production. Audio CD players only read CDs created
according to the Red Book format. It is therefore necessary to first
convert PC files into this format before writing them onto an audio
disc compatible with any audio CD player.
Writing
Some years ago, there was only a small number of select studios
which were able to do CD mastering. Today, writing audio CDs is
nothing exceptional and continuously dropping prices for CD-R
burners and media make them available to nearly everyone.
The audio material is stored digitally on the CD, this data is read by
the CD player, and then it is transformed back to the analog plane.
While in action, track indexes indicate to the CD player which songs
start at which position.
Samplitude 11 Producer can also write an audio CD from the
program directly. Before the write process starts, the track indexes