11.5

242 Burning CDs
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Burning CDs
Burning Red Book-compatible audio CDs is a vital feature of Samplitude 11.5
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 11.5 Producer can also write an audio CD from the program
directly. Before the write process starts, the track indexes are directly set in
the VIP window, and then Samplitude 11.5 Producer converts stereo sum and
indexes into a data stream which is fed to the CD burner.