It operates in both directions in fine increments all the way up to double speed, and you can either grab the control with the mouse, operate it using keyboard shortcuts, or type in a new value for normal playback rate. Like Sound Forge, CD Architect only supports standard MME drivers for playback purposes, but for previewing a CD compilation their higher latency is only annoying when waiting for the result of a plug-in change to be heard. CD Architect was happy to use the soundcard driver choice provided by Microsoft's Sound Mapper option, but switching to 'Windows Classic Wave Driver' totally ignored my attempts to specifically choose a soundcard driver option.
The volume envelope features from the original are all still here to make adding fade-ins and fade-outs incredibly easy, as are the automatic crossfade options when dragging one event over another, but there's a new tiered audio layering option that adds a second 'lane' beneath the first onto which you can drag further events, so that they play in tandem.
This makes adding sound effects and voiceovers a lot easier, while in conjunction with the envelopes you could create much more complex crossfades, or DJ megamixes.
You can now also use an unlimited number of volume envelope points, and there are new Smooth and Sharp fade types. The second audio layer makes it easy to drop in some extra applause, for example, between the tracks of a live album, as shown here. CD Architect is compatible with the Direct X plug-in standard, and a subset of the real-time plug-ins bundled with Sound Forge 6.
I couldn't find the list of 'over 20' effects anywhere, and they get placed in a shared folder with those supplied with other Sonic Foundry applications, but it seems to include Sonic Foundry's now familiar XFX1, XFX2 and XFX3 packs, each containing six effects, along with the four Track FX plug-ins first seen in Vegas Pro.
As with Wavelab's Montage feature, you can add effects to individual Events and have them automatically rendered into the final audio file that's burned onto an audio CD.
Plug-in chaining is also supported, and I find Sonic Foundry's implementation far easier to use than that of Wavelab's Montage -- clicking on the small Event FX icon at the bottom right of each Event launches an Audio Plug-in window showing the entire chain, and allows drag-and-drop reordering. Another new option is real-time pitch-shift and time-stretching.
The Event Properties dialogue lets you decide whether to preserve the pitch or the length when Ctrl-dragging either end of the Event in this manner, and both are useful as long as you don't stretch them too far, when the familiar artefacts start to become audible. There's also a Master Output control for overall level, which has its own effect chain. This defaults to a single Dither plug-in set to 16 bits with rectangular dithering, but there are seven bit depth options from eight to bit, six options for dither type, and two options for noise shaping, plus some useful presets.
Each Project can have its own properties, which include Resample Quality, although this process is only applied to non CD Architect has always made it easy to compile an album full of tracks by dragging and dropping, but version 5. An Event can be associated with multiple audio files, so you can link different versions or mixes of a song to the same project, leaving your final decisions until the last minute. You can quickly switch between them using the 'N' for Next Take keyboard shortcut, and this makes it easy to try them out on the fly.
If you just want to burn a selection of pre-tweaked audio tracks onto CD-R, there are plenty of budget packages available, as I discussed in SOS January However, there's no denying that fully fledged packages like CD Architect make life a lot easier with their drag-and-drop graphic interfaces, automatic crossfading and real-time plug-in options.
For those who regularly work with non The new Wavelab Essential is a closer competitor with its reduced two-lane Montage, four instead of eight Master Section slots, and a much smaller collection of plug-ins, and still manages Data and Mixed Mode CD-burning alongside the more basic CD Audio. However, despite these niggles, CD Architect version 5. Previous article Next article.
You may login with either your assigned username or your e-mail address. The password field is case sensitive. Significantly cheaper than Wavelab 4. Two-tier editing for assembling more complex mixes. Supports multiple 'takes'. No recording capabilities. Despite a few omissions, CD Architect 5.
Like its predecessor, CDA 5. And you can import cdp files made by previous versions.. CDA 5. With time-stretch, you just hold down your keyboard control button and use your mouse to drag the end of an event to either stretch or compress its timing while leaving the original pitch intact.
Nothing could be easier to use and it works great. You can also audition multiple takes in a single track position. You can stack them all in a single track position and then compare them until you decide which one you like. One of my favorite new features is the ability to individually normalize each of the events in the track list. All you do is check the normalize box for each event and the tracks are immediately normalized.
Talk about a time saver! Perhaps the single most powerful feature of CDA 5. Each event has its own event editor that allows you to chain as many DirectX compatible plug-ins as you want. So you can add individual reverb, compression, noise reduction -- whatever you want to each of the tracks.
Then you can do the same to the entire CD by applying another set of DirectX plug-in effects to all of the tracks. This makes CDA 5. There is a price to pay for this kind of flexibility. To compensate for this, CDA 5.
If you have set the software to perform number of complex processes, then you almost certainly need to save the project as a CD Architect Image File. This is essentially a WAV file in which all of the operations that you have chosen are already performed.
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