User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Overview of CD Technology
- Introduction
- Learning the CD Architect Workspace
- Getting Started
- Basic Editing Techniques
- Advanced Editing Techniques
- Working with Events
- Working with Tracks
- Adding Effects
- Burning Audio CDs
- Customizing CD Architect Software
- Index
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Deleting regions
1.
Place the mouse pointer on the region marker’s starting or ending point. The pointer changes to a hand icon
2.
Right-click to display a shortcut menu.
3.
From the shortcut menu, choose Delete. The region is removed from your project.
CD Architect software does not renumber the tags as you remove them. For example, if you have five regions in your project and delete
region 3 and 4, the remaining regions are listed at 1, 2 and 5. However, as you add regions again, the application begins numbering the
missing sequence first, in this case 3 and 4, and then 6, 7, 8, etc.
Deleting all regions and markers
1.
Right-click the marker bar.
2.
From the shortcut menu, choose Markers/Regions.
3.
From the submenu, choose Delete All.
Working with CD layout markers
Markers on the CD layout bar indicate the locations of CD tracks and indices in an audio CD layout project. CD tracks distinguish songs in
the project and have a starting and ending point. CD tracks are used to indicate to the CD-R device where to mark the beginning and
ending of a track during the writing process. Indices are single markers used to subdivide a track, and are useful for navigating to
specific areas within a CD track. However, not all CD players allow navigation to indices.
Using an external audio editing program
CD Architect software is a nondestructive editing environment, which means that the original source files remain unchanged by any
editing done in the application. Destructive (constructive) edits that modify the actual source media file may be done in a separate
application such as Sound Forge®. By setting up a separate audio editor, you can quickly access the program from CD Architect software
via the Tools menu or by pressing Ctrl+E.
Setting up an audio editing program
If you already have Sound Forge loaded on your computer when you installed CD Architect software, the installation should have
detected it and made it your default audio editing program. However, if you do not have Sound Forge or want to specify a different
audio editor, you may do so in the Preferences dialog.
1.
From the Options menu, choose Preferences. The Preferences dialog
appears.
2.
In the Preferences dialog, choose the Editing tab.
3.
Click the Browse button to the right of the Preferred audio editor
box. The Preferred Audio Editor dialog appears.
4.
From this dialog, navigate to the application to use for editing audio
files.
5.
Select the application’s executable icon (.exe) and click Open to set
the application as your default audio editor.
The application’s path displays in the Preferred audio editor box on
the Editing tab.
Opening an audio editor from CD Architect software
All events in your CD Architect software project are references to media files on a storage device. When you edit an audio event in an
audio editor, you can choose to open the original media file or a copy of the file.
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