Steinberg WaveLab Essential 6 Operation Manual

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The Audio CD Montage
Mixing down – The Render function
The Render function in the Master Section allows you to 
“mix down” the whole Montage (or sections of it) to a sin-
gle audio file. 
The Render function can be used in many ways:
 It’s useful if you want to burn a CD from a CPU-intensive Mon-
tage, as it allows you to first render all clip effect processing 
and then burn the CD in a second pass (see “About the two 
CD write methods” on page 133).
 The Render function is useful for “printing” the...

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The Audio CD Montage
Preparing the Audio CD Montage for 
CD burning
The descriptions in this section cover preparations for CD 
burning. A CD can be burned directly from within the 
Montage:
1.Make sure the Audio CD Montage contains exactly the 
material you want on the CD.
ÖNote that CD tracks must be at least 4 seconds long. 
2.Click the CD tab to select the corresponding CD view.
This contains a CD track list with each clip in the Montage representing 
one track on the audio CD.
3.Select “Adjust...

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The Audio CD Montage
About the two CD write methods
The final phase of CD creation can be done in two ways:
By burning directly from the CD view in the Montage.
This is an easy process, but puts some demand on your computer. Keep 
in mind that even if your Audio CD Montage plays back without prob-
lems, the CPU load will be four times as high if you burn in 4x speed 
(since the audio file has to be rendered four times as fast)! 
There is, however, an option in the CD Write dialog to 
“Render a...

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Burning an audio CD 

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Burning an audio CD
Introduction
This chapter describes the basic CD burning process, as 
well as some general reference information about the CD 
format. 
It does not, however, describe the necessary preparations 
for creating a CD from an Audio CD Montage. In other 
words, this chapter assumes that the respective prepara-
tions have been completed, and that you are ready to exe-
cute the actual CD burning.
Please refer to the chapter “The Audio CD Montage” for a 
description of the respective...

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Burning an audio CD
Writing a CD
Once you have set up the CD Montage, we suggest the 
following work order for burning the CD. These steps are 
not mandatory though, just a recommendation.
1.Listen through the CD once more from the Montage, to 
check that all starts, ends and transitions are OK.
2.Select Check from the CD tab – Functions menu, to 
check that all settings conform to the Red Book standard.
This is done automatically before burning, but you might want to do this 
anyway at this point....

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Burning an audio CD
The audio CD format – Background 
information
This text aims to provide you with some background infor-
mation on the CD format, to help you better understand 
how to create your own CDs. This is a big subject, and we 
will only be able to touch upon it here. For more informa-
tion, try a text-book on the subject, or search the Internet 
for more information.
The basic CD formats
There are a number of different formats for the contents of 
a CD disc. You are probably familiar with...

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Burning an audio CD
Specifying PQ codes is not complex. However, when cre-
ating a CD there are a number of rules you must take into 
account. For example, there should be some silent frames 
before each track, sub-indexes should be slightly early, 
there should be pauses at the beginning and end of the 
entire CD, etc.
When creating CDs from an Audio CD Montage, these 
rules and settings are handled by WaveLab Essential to 
ensure your CD will work properly.
ISRC codes
In addition to the basic PQ...

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Data CD/DVD Projects 

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Data CD/DVD Projects
Introduction
A Data CD/DVD project is an environment that can be 
used to compile and write a data only CD-ROM/DVD-
ROM or Mixed Mode CDs.
 Data discs exclusively contain computer data. This can be files 
of any type. However, the files are stored on the CD/DVD in 
such a way that an audio CD player cannot recognize them.
 The difference between a Mixed Mode CD and a normal audio 
CD is that the Mixed Mode CDs contain both computer data 
and audio data that can be played back by...