Sony CD Architect

Sony CD Architect - Professional Red Book Audio CD Mastering Produce professional audio CDs to Red Book specification with CD Architect software. The newly updated version includes CD text reading and writing, and updated drive support. Perform full PQ code editing, trim events from full-length media and add as new tracks, import regions from Sound Forge software as tracks, master audio by applying over 20 real-time DirectX effects to events and the master output, and perform disc-at-once CD burning.

CD Architect will provide the most precise audio CD burning and mastering tools available. Arrange your CD Architect project using simple drag-and-drop operations. Produce complex crossfades and DJ-style megamixes. Generate multiple takes of a song to use in your project before burning. Create live-style CDs with audio in the time between tracks, apply volume envelopes and event ASR envelopes even create hidden tracks. CD Architect software supports a long list of drives, including many FireWire and USB devices.

Powerful CD Creation Tools
CD Architect software provides all the tools you need to produce professional CDs from beginning to end. Perform full PQ code editing, apply effects, create customized crossfades, and generate disc-at-once premasters suitable for professional replication.

Over 20 Real-Time DirectX Effects
CD Architect software gives you the flexibility you need to professionally master your final product. Master your CD projects using over 20 real-time DirectX effects including EQ, compression, reverb, and noise gate. Apply effects to individual tracks, sections of a track, or the master bus.

Powerful Editing Features
Zoom to sample level and perform precise, real-time edits, fades and crossfades. Move, cut, copy, paste, and split events. Invert audio phase, normalize tracks, and perform audio scrubbing - even apply real-time pitch changes and time stretching.

Media Extraction Tools
Create "best-of" CDs in minutes. Preview and extract tracks of your own music, add them to your project, and burn to CD. Tracks are extracted with full PQ information including track start points, timing information, and more.

Professional Mixing Tools
Create transitions between songs or layer audio to produce complex crossfades and DJ-style megamixes. Create "live" CDs with audio in between tracks, apply volume and ASR envelopes to events and even create hidden tracks!

Powerful CD Design Features
Arrange audio tracks using simple drag-and-drop operations. Create multiple takes of a song to use in your project before burning. Preview and switch between various takes and choose the one that fits best in your project.

Professional CD Burning Features
CD Architect software includes support for a wide variety of CD burners, including FireWire, USB, IDE, and SCSI devices. Perform test burns before writing to CD. CD Architect also supports buffer underrun protection preventing unusable discs.

Cue sheet printing
Share track list information with other applications or a CD replication house. You can copy track list information, save it to a text file, or print a hard copy directly from the CD Architect application.

Full PQ Code Editing
CD Architect software lets you arrange tracks with speed and precision. Perform full PQ code editing including track and index positions, ISRC codes, and pause times.

Protected Work Environment
Work with confidence - CD Architect software automatically creates and saves a backup copy of your project every five minutes. Plus, use the undo/redo history to restore previous edits with ease. View past edits - even undo or redo whole groups at a time.

Multiple File Format Support
Use multiple file formats in your project - CD Architect software performs the conversion for you. Convert your favorite MP3s to WAV on the fly, burn new audio CD\'s, and listen to them anywhere. CD Architect software supports popular formats including MP3, AIFF, Windows Media Audio, Ogg Vorbis, and more.

Fully Customizable Workspace
CD Architect software lets you to customize your environment to fit the way you work. Dock or float windows, including the Playlist, Tracklist, Trimmer, Media Pool and Mixer anywhere on your workspace.

Ultimate Audio Fidelity
Use the highest quality audio in your CD projects, up to 32-bit, 192kHz source audio - no conversion is necessary. Convert your tracks to Red Book audio with high-quality resampling and dithering with noise shaping.

Here are some key features of "Sony CD Architect":
CD Text support

Support for up to 32-bit, 192kHz source audio

High-quality resampling and dithering with noiseshaping

Single or multi-file playlisting

Volume and ASR envelopes for any event

Multiple levels of undo/redo

Override validation errors option

Mono-to-stereo conversion on the fly

CD transport controls

Direct file open into Sound Forge software

Track creation from Sound Forge regions

Trimmer window

Media Explorer

Ripple editing

CD Image file rendering

Automatic crossfades

Greater than 1:1 time zoom

Reading and extraction of PQ data along with audio tracks

Complete control over tracks, marker placements, and indices

Preview multiple tracks or ranges of audio before extraction from a supported CD device

Stereo master volume fader and adjustable envelope controls for any region.

Media Pool

Multiple file format support without conversion

Autosave crash recovery

Undo/redo history list

Supports MP3, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Windows Media Audio, and more

Mastering

Over 20 real-time DirectX plug-ins

Event and master bus effects model

Audio layering to create complex crossfades

Event Normalization

Real time pitch shift/time stretch

Slip trimming

Audio phase invert

Audio scrubbing

Unlimited volume envelope points

CD Design

Full PQ code editing support, including track and index positions and pause times

Absolute times for replication

Print cue sheets and format CD liner notes

Up to 99 tracks

Up to 99 subindices per track

Smart track reordering

Automatic pause time indication

Relative times for liner notes

Timeline event locking

Adjustable pause times

Audio CD player un-mute fade emulation

CD Writing

Burns disc-at-once premaster CDs for professional replication

USB, FireWire, SCSI and IDE/ATAPI CD-R and CD-RW drive support

Overburn support of 80 minute and other size CD-Rs

Buffer underrun protection

Test burn mode

PQ list verification for Red Book compatibility prior to burn

Burn speed selection

Copy-inhibit flags

Pre-emphasis flags

Audio clipping detection

International Standard Recording Codes (ISRC)

Universal Product Codes (UPC)

Media Catalog Numbers (MCN)


Requirements:

500 MHz processor

150 MB hard-disk space for program installation

128 MB RAM

Windows-compatible sound card

CD-ROM drive (for installation from a CD only)

Supported CD-Recordable drive

DirectX Media 9.0 Run Time (included on CD-ROM)

Internet Explorer 4.0 or later