User Guide

CHP. 3 GETTING STARTED
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Writing to CD
ACID allows you to burn your projects to CD using supported CD-R/CD-RW drives. ACID renders your
project so it can be played on consumer CD players; however, the disc must be closed before it can be played
in a CD player.
Note: ACID writes the entire project length to a CD track.
If your project has events on muted tracks that extend beyond
the end of the audible material, the muted events burn as
silence at the end of your CD track. To burn just a portion of
a project, create a loop region and select the
Burn loop region
only check box.
1. Insert a blank CD in a supported CD-R/CD-RW drive.
2. From the Tool s menu, choose Burn Track-at-Once Audio CD.
Notice that the Burn Track-at-Once Audio CD dialog indicates the amount of time that the current
project will fill on the CD as well as the total amount of time remaining on the CD. If the
Time needed for
audio
value exceeds the Time available on disc value, ACID does not allow you to write the track to the CD.
Note: If there is no CD in the CD-R/CD-RW drive, only
the Cancel button is available in this dialog.
3. Choose a setting from the Action drop-down list:
• Choose
Burn audio to begin recording audio to your CD when you click Start. You must close the disc
before it can be played in an audio CD player.
• Choose
Test, then burn audio to test whether your files can be written to the CD without encountering
buffer underruns. Recording begins after the test if it is successful.
• Choose
Test only to test whether your files can be written to the CD without encountering buffer
underruns. No audio is recorded to the CD.
• Choose
Close disc to close your disc without adding any audio when you click Start. Closing a disc allows
your files to be played on an audio CD player. You cannot add tracks to a CD once it has been closed.
• Choose
Erase RW disc to erase a rewritable CD when you click Start.
4. Select your burning options:
• Select the
Erase RW disc before burning check box to erase a rewritable CD before you begin burning.
• Select the
Close disc when done burning check box to close the CD after burning. Closing a disc allows
your files to be played on an audio CD player. You cannot add tracks to a CD once it has been closed.
• Select the
Eject disc when done check box to eject the CD automatically when burning is complete.
• Select the
Burn loop region only check box to burn only the selected loop region. Clear the check box to
burn the entire project.
5. From the Drive drop-down list, choose the drive for burning CDs.
6. From the Speed drop-down list, choose the speed at which you want to burn. Choosing Max uses your
drive’s fastest possible speed; decrease the setting if you have difficulty burning because of buffer
underruns.
7. Click Start.
Important: Once ACID begins writing to the CD,
cancelling the write operation renders the CD unusable.