User Manual

Chapter 3
Learning the CD Architect Workspace
CD Architect
™
software is designed to be an easy-to-use program with many tools that provide power and flexibility when
preparing audio files prior to premastering a CD. As you will learn, many of the operations, menu items, and shortcut keys
are common to other popular software applications.
Main window
When you start the application, the main window appears.
Timeline
Window
docking
area
Tool bar
Title bar
Time display
Marker bar
Ruler
CD layout bar
Status selection fields
Transport bar controls
Status bar
Menu bar
The work area is divided into two primary area sections: the timeline and the window docking area. You can resize these
sections by dragging the dividers between them.
Main window components
The following table describes the major components of the main window.
Component Description
Title bar Displays the file name with a .cdp file extension. Double-click to maximize and restore the window.
Menu bar Displays the menu headings for the available functions.
Tool bar
Provides quick access to frequently used commands.
For more information, see Toolbar on
page 17.
Status bar
Displays the amount of time available for adding CD tracks (
Project Time Remaining). The
application bases the program length on the blank CD in your drive, or will use the default CD
length. To scan your drive and update the information display, click on the bar or choose
Refresh
Disc Status
from the Disc menu.
Toolbar
The toolbar allows you to quickly access the most commonly used functions and features in CD Architect software. From
the Options menu, choose Customize Toolbar to specify which buttons are displayed.
New: Creates a new blank project using Extract Audio from CD: Extracts tracks from an
default settings audio CD and adds them to your project as wave
files
Open: Opens an existing project or CD Enable Snapping: Select this button to turn on the
image file Snap to Grid and Snap to Markers commands
Open media: Adds media files to your Automatically Create Tracks: Select this button to
project automatically create CD tracks when you add
media to the timeline
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