Making Cd masters for replication in dp and iTunes

[gaucho]

I'm used to making cd masters on PEAK which has excellent dithering from 24 to 16 bit. I'm having some trouble with peak, so I'm wondering:

1- How is cd making directly in dp
2- how is the quality of making cd masters in iTunes these days

[Prime Mover]

By "CD Making", if you mean burning or creating disc images, DP is a dog, don't even bother.

However, 24bit to 16bit conversion and dithering is perfect for DP. I'm going through the same process right now. I say go all the way through the conversion and dithering in DP, then bounce down an entire album to one track. People 'round here seem to be very gung-ho about Roxio Toast, and there are some open source programs (like Burn) that seem to be pretty close, though maybe not as feature filled.

iTunes? That doesn't even sound like a remote option. No question that it's conversion algorithms are top-notch, but how are you going to do track splitting? Better leave it to a dedicated authoring program.

[gaucho]

Thanks for the input. I guess I'll reinstall bias peak.

If the files are converted in dp, what does iTunes do that is destructive? Isn't it just compiling the wave files?

[glamacchia]

1- How is cd making directly in dp

I researched this extensively when I still had a Digi Master list station and people still listened to music on CD's . . . burning a CD directly out of DP. I thought it would be the coolest thing ever to 'see' the entire CD tracks and then drop in markers to place your indexes, sub indexes set cross fades between tracks etc.. except that the Burn CD option in DP does make a red book standard CD . It is just a quick way to make a reference audio CD of one song from a multitrack project that the client can listen to in their car.

You can rick it to make a CD of several tracks but will soon discover that the last track may inadvertently just stop. Work around is to add another index or two of a silent wave file and the last track with audio will play ... Your cd will say there are 11 tracks but the 11th track is just a dummy file so all of track 10 plays out.


There were other gnomes I read of. Isolating the cause of each with so many variables was too complex. But to make a quick CD directly out of a single project so the client could play it in their car is still hip.. but the time was marginally different verses doing a bounce in the box and burning that to CD. And if you wanted to burn more than one CD it would be faster to bounce and burn in another program. Each time DP made the CD it had to bounce...... wait.....wait....wait..... burn. Making a CD disc image should have allowed you to bounce once and then use a utility to burn as many copies as you needed but, it too had gnomes.

How old is this thread? Bias Peak went the ways of the Edison talk box I thought.

[gaucho]

Yes, bias peak is gone. My g5 tiger just died, taking with it a lot of great software that will not work in my new Mac mini. The day finally came for the big upgrade to dp8, etc.