When people think Steinberg, they often do not think about WaveLab first. WaveLab, like many mastering DAWs, is a very specialized program that uses an interface unlike most other software.
Its feature set is built around mastering, but also includes tools that make it useful for journalists doing audio interviews, post-production houses, and restoration. WaveLab features a bit audio engine that supports bit audio with sample rates up to kHz. This makes WaveLab a great option for those after the most precise, high-quality products. Pair this with an extensive set of analysis tools and you will be sure that your audio is exactly how you need it to be every time.
The spectral editing function in WaveLab has been redesigned for version 9. This mode allows for a more accurate display of your audio through pitch scaling. Wavelet Display shows more frequencies in the low end of your audio and more time in the high end to bolster your confidence in making edits across these areas. Steinberg even took it upon themselves to add inpainting technology to their spectrum editor.
This technology allows WaveLab to replace noise in your tracks with relevant frequencies by analyzing audio before and after the region you are editing. WaveLab also provides mastering engineers with a plethora of tools for finalizing a master. Effects can be applied to individual tracks or via the master section to make sure your entire project maintains consistency.
Gaps between tracks, CD text, fades, and more can be added in the Audio Montage section. DDP export is available via WaveLab as well, giving you the option to provide them to your clients. For a great DAW centered around mastering, WaveLab will give you everything you need and more to give your tracks the polish they need. To start, Pyramix was designed for use by professionals.
It is safe to say that all of the DAWs on this list were designed with the same thing in mind, but Pyramix does not cater to beginning engineers. Featuring advanced editing tools, professional-grade metering, and up to recording tracks at a time, Pyramix is ready to handle any project you throw its way.
For mastering, there are innovate plugins such as the 3D Workflows Suite. This suite allows you to natively mix for all sorts of complex speaker layouts to make sure your masters will translate to any system.
In terms of mastering, metadata, high-quality sample rate conversion, and file types become very important. Pyramix offers all of these tools. This provides a sample rate of up to , kHz for incredible recordings and stunning results when using hybrid workflows. While Merging Technologies built a DAW for the ultimate quality, its learning curve may worry some users.
If you need the tools for the most critical mastering tasks, the learning curve will be worth it. Pyramix has you covered. Featuring an interface typical for tracking and editing, SawStudio has made its name through its advanced audio engine, customizable workflows, and stability. Workspace Views allow for customization of how the DAW displays your information making them a nice feature when working with only one or two stereo tracks. Their high-resolution sample rate conversion has proven itself to be pristine up to 96 kHz.
These types of details are critical when creating high-quality files in mastering. VST support allows third-party plugins to take advantage of this high-quality engine. For engineers looking for the feeling of sitting behind an analog console, check out SawStudio for your mastering needs. Upon first glance, Soundblade resembles Pro Tools in the way it displays tracks and its timeline. First off, Soundblade allows only sixteen tracks making it hard to use as a tracking DAW.
The idea here is that tracks can be sent out to outboard gear and looped back into the DAW on another stereo pair of tracks for those working with hybrid mastering setups. When working in hybrid setups, Soundblade can record the externally processed audio at up to kHz for incredible sound quality on the way back into the DAW. Being a fully-fledged mastering suite requires that you have ample support for top-quality plugins. Here, a well-recorded jazz quartet peaks at around -1dB, but has a power level of about dB RMS, which indicates a wide dynamic range and unfatiguing sound.
After you've assembled your collection of songs and placed them into the desired order, you're bound to find that one of them is louder than all the others. I find it easiest to get this track to the desired final level, generally by adjusting the limiter's threshold until the loudest peaks are just being limited, so that the majority of the track dynamics remain intact while the overall level is maximised.
If you don't want to play back the entire track to find these peaks, just use Wavelab's Global Analysis or Sonic Foundry's Statistics tool to automatically find the peak level. If for instance the highest readings for the two stereo channels is I use a Once you've got this first track sounding how you want it you can then adjust the others to fit in with it, using your ears to adjust their relative levels to suit.
If you want to give your ears a hand so to speak , both Sound Forge and Wavelab let you measure the RMS average power of the entire track. Most SOS readers are probably more familiar with using this to measure the background noise levels of their soundcard, but it's also an ideal way to compare average track levels.
Classical and jazz music will tend to have a greater dynamic range, and hence a lower RMS average power, with rock and dance at the other end of the range. If your average readings approach dB RMS your music will have little 'light and shade', and anything above dB RMS will probably be exhausting to listen to for any length of time.
Although dither noise is at an extremely low level, the various algorithms use different 'shapes' of dither noise. Dithering to 8-bit makes the differences obvious, but many mastering engineers maintain that you can still hear the differences even when dithering to bit. There's even a web site dedicated to getting musician's opinions on this topic.
You can either download the ones of your choice, or take part in a blind shootout poll by downloading a 15MB compilation and choosing the one that sounds best to you.
I explained the basics of dither in my earlier PC Musician on mastering, as well as explaining a basic technique for hearing it in action on your own music. However, I've recently followed quite a few forum threads concerning the relative merits of various 'flavours' of dither offered by different developers, and this is especially relevant now that many of us have several dither algorithms in our collection.
There are various rules to follow to get best out of the dithering process. The most important is always to dither when changing from a higher to a lower bit depth, to make the most of the available dynamic range of the original file — simply lopping off the bottom eight bits truncation when moving from bit to bit will leave your fades sounding very gritty at the bottom end. However, there's no point in adding dither when changing a file from bit to bit, since no information will exist in the extra bits.
Some soundcards provide various dither-related settings, and it's important to use these correctly. For instance, the Lynx range has a Record Dither option that should be enabled whenever you are recording 8-bit or bit files through its bit A-D converters, and whenever the Record volume fader is at any position other than full scale, and a Play Dither option that should likewise be enabled when the Play volume fader is not at full scale though for best results you should in any case leave such digital level controls at maximum, to make the most of the available dynamic range.
On professional cards like these it's handy to have such extra options, but thankfully most soundcard manufacturers try to choose the most appropriate dither settings for you automatically. Ideally, dithering should be added post-fader, which is the way CD Architect and Wavelab do it. If you want to choose a different option to those available by default you can add an extra plug-in in CD Architect in the Master FX chain, or in Wavelab by going into the Organise Master Section function in the Options menu, and ticking the PM Post Master column for the plug-in in question.
Similarly, if you want to use the Waves L1 or L2 for raising overall levels in a transparent way, but abandon their IDR dither algorithms in favour of something else, just set the Waves dither options to bit, None, and None respectively, and you can then run your choice of dither plug-in as a separate plug-in.
It's always sensible to accompany any Red Book audio CD-R with a report showing a detailed listing of all track times. Here's one generated by Wavelab 4. Some modern burners may even give more errors when burning at really slow speeds unless they have been specially optimised for this, so you should use a speed in the middle of the available range, ideally in CLV Constant Linear Velocity mode to avoid speed changes during the burn. Modern CD blanks tend to be optimised for higher burning speeds anyway, but remember that cheap unbranded blanks can give problems at any burn speed.
Unfortunately, even the fact that your CD-R plays on your hi-fi and various other players doesn't guarantee that it will prove suitable for glass mastering, since audio players are generally designed to cope with lots of errors before they become audible. Some CD burners notably those made by Plextor also let you check for C2 errors the second level of error correction with a suitable software utility, which is reassuring before sending off a CD-R to be mastered.
Which Dithering Algorithm? You can also use it for formatting discs. This software has more powerful features such as multi-disc file backup, restoring an integrated audio CD ripper that produces high-quality WAV or WMA files, as well as verification without having to eject the disc in supported drives.
If all you want is simple software for you to easily create audio CDs with your playlist, getting Free Audio CD Burner is not a bad choice.
Although it only enables the writing of CDs, it can be used to decode WMA and MP3 files in real time, therefore it saves you time as well as hard drive space.
You can adjust it in a way that it will write track by track and end up unfinalized. Also, you may simply choose to use it to burn a whole disc at once and then finalize it.
BurnAware Free is an easy-to-use disc-burning writer with which you can write all kinds of files like catalogs, text, pictures, music, and videos to DVDs, CDs, and Blu-ray discs. You can create multisession and bootable discs and also burn ISO images. The interface is clean and multilingual. Overall, BurnAware Free is one of the easiest ways to create a disc. InfraRecorder is a basic and free-to-use disc recorder. The overall setup is pretty basic, with which you can fulfill your regular requirements.
The software is lightweight without any sort of sparkling features. You can transfer your movies and other media files in a specific order to DVDs easily with this software. Download and install the program on your laptop or PC.
Launch the software after the installation process is finished. From the Data tab, click on Burn image to disc. Click on Launch. Click on the Folder icon near Source and find the files you want to burn.
Type the disc name in the Disc name field. But still, they are used for various purposes. Before opting for disc-burning software or copiers, check the system compatibility and your requirements. Hopefully, these reviews will help you to find the top CD burner or copier solution for your needs. You will have to use disc-burning software to burn music on a CD. Check out the steps mentioned above to learn how to burn music on a CD.
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