Burning To The CD-RW

Burning Audio CDs is completely different from the Backup process.

The DPS can use
* the"Disc-at-once" (DAO) method, where you have prepared a master stereo
mixdown Project for the entire CD (as many songs as needed), with CD track
IDs prepared in the locator memories.
The resulting CD will be ready to play is most standard CD players (some players
can only play certain types of CD-Rs, Silver for instance).

* the "Track-at-once" method, where you can burn one track at a time on the CD-R.
(when you have one Project per song, for instance)
You can keep adding tracks to the same CD-R, but the CD won't play in CD player
until you use the FINISH function.
After the FINISH function, the CD can be used in most players, but you cannot
add any more tracks.
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DISC AT ONCE:
Re: 74+ minutes
A possible area of confusion is the way that tracks are marked:

For 'IN<>OUT':
The first track is from IN to the first marker (with a '#' as the first character)
and the last track is from the last marker to OUT.

For 'ALL':
The first track is from the start of the project to the first marker and the last track
is from the last marker to the end of the project.

For DAO, no track can be shorter than 4 seconds.

I've just made another CD using DAO. No problem.
I created a stereo Project with 25 "tracks" (average 2mn30s per track) and
2 seconds space between each track. Total running time: 01:05:52.
* Set the IN point at the begining of the first "track"
* Store Memory 00, named "#2", at the begining of the second "track"
* Store Memories 01-23 (names "#3"-"#25") at the beginiing of each following "track"
* Set the OUT point at the end of the last "track"

In CD-R page, set Region to IN<>OUT, Speed to SLOW
using a generic non-branded CD-R), Test Write OFF, Burn Method Disc-at-once.
10 minutes later, the DPS shows "Completed" and the CD has all 25 tracks playing correctly.
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Resample/dither

When you're ready to burn a CD you don't work with in/out points.
Go to the CDR page (hold shift + setup) and select "convert to 44.1".
This will take you through some prompts that will enable you to create a new
project dithered and resampled to 16/44.1. It is this project that you can use to
burn an audio CD with the onboard burner. Of course, like any other project...
you can also add parts, change eq, etc. If you don't want to name the project,
the dps will even do that for you by appending the letters "CD" to your original project.

If your project is already sampled at 44.1 KHz, the convert button doesn't show up.
You don't have to do any additional conversion of a 24 bit / 44.1 KHz recording.
You can burn it to CD that way.
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2 track record and mixing done on 1.45b.

1. Open the project you want to burn a two track for.
2. Goto the CD-R menu
3. Choose Mixdown
4. Choose New
5. Type in a project name for the 2 track mix and hit ok
6. You are now by default back at the main screen.
7. Make sure none of the tracks are record enabled
8. Hit Record and Play.
9. Open the new project that you just recorded the two track to.
10. Goto the CD-R menu
11. Hit Write
12. Make sure the track for left is track one and track for right is track 2.
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Creating Audio CD
Do you have to load each individual mix project and burn it separately? It sure would be nice if we could just put together a playlist of mixes to be burned on a special cd page, setting the time intervals between songs, etc.

The only restriction for burning songs to CD is that they have to be mixed to only two tracks (stereo) before writing to CD. Other than that:

1) In Track-at-Once mode:
You can burn the songs to CD in any order, either from a single Project containing multiple songs or from multiple Projects.
The songs will appear on the CD in the order that you write them to CD.
* Load a Project
* Select a Song (use Region: IN<>OUT if there are multiple songs in the same Project; you can use Region: ALL if there is only one )
* Write (F5) it to CD
* Select the next Song (from the same Project with different IN-OUT points or from another Project)
* Write it to CD
(there will be an automatic 2 seconds silence between each Song)
*Repeat until all Songs are written to CD
* FINISH (F6) the CD.

2) In Disk-at-Once mode:
* Prepare a Master stereo Project with all the songs arranged in the order that you want them on the CD, with or without silence between songs (same as a playlist). (This is usually achieved using copy/paste editing)
* Store locate Memories at the start of each Song, except the first one (i.e., starting from Song 2) to mark CD Track IDs, using a "#" as the first character of the locate Memory name.
* WRITE CD (it will be automatically Finished)
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LAME encoder

If you wanna get the best quality to file size ratio, try any program with a
LAME encoder built in. It uses VBR (variable bit rate) compression, and will
give you a nice sounding mp3 without a huge file size.
CD-xtractor, is free-ware, and works quite nicely.
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