CD Architect demystified?

PeterWright wrote on 4/5/2005, 4:04 AM
I just upgraded to SF8, and it included the latest version of CD Architect.

Now I've seen this program referred to a few times, but I've been able to burn many Audio CDs using Vegas - the only annoying thing has been when I click "Lay out CD from Events, it doesn't - unless the Events are separated by a slight gap it sees them all as one track. So I go through and separate them, then burn the CD ...

Now, in a nutshell, what does CDA do that Vegas doesn't?

Thanks

Peter

Comments

Rednroll wrote on 4/5/2005, 8:10 AM
In a nutshelll, one thing "CDtext." Let's hope it doesn't stay that way for V6. I'm all about Vegas when it comes to cd assembly. I don't understand if you have Vegas than why you would ever want CDA. Now if you where using some other DAW and needed a CD assembly program then CDA would be your best choice. To me CDA is just Vegas without the recording, multiple tracks, bus routing capabilities, hardware control, automated plugins,channel converter switches, no reverse audio, no track faders, etc.

I asked the same question when someone in the CDA forum said CDA gave you "more control".....they obviously didn't know what they where talking about when I asked them to give me some examples of this "more control", and I didn't get any feedback.

http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=359818&Replies=6&Page=0

In the most part it's a preference thing, some like to work in CDA and some like to work in Vegas. I like to work in Vegas because it's like CDA on steroids.
Geoff_Wood wrote on 4/5/2005, 3:41 PM
I find CDA makes basic layout of a CD much more straigt-forward than Vegas. Try it and see if it suits your way of working.

geoff
farss wrote on 4/5/2005, 6:18 PM
Same here, I'm not disputing what Red's saying, just that I find it easier to just keep Vegas for editing and CDA for well, making CDs. It's not something I do very often so having a clear demarcation between what I'm doing suits the way my old brain works.
Bob.
PeterWright wrote on 4/6/2005, 2:34 AM
Thanks Guys

CD Text I assume is having the actual song names carry through into the burned CD - nice touch, I'll probably learn CDA just for that - unless of course they slip it into V6 ...

Peter
Rednroll wrote on 4/6/2005, 9:38 AM
Regarding CDtext, that's basically what it is. The disc has a text display field where you type in "Disc Title/Artist", and then each track has a field for "Track title/Artist". To display this information you need a CD player that supports CDtext. WMP doesn't, so if you don't see the names displayed there that's why. If your CD player supports CDtext, like most car stereos do, then on the display you will see the Disc Title, and each track will display it's Track title. Acid 5.0 was released not too long ago, with the CD architect features added to it like Vegas......but they didn't add CDtext as a feature? So I have my doubts as far as CDtext support for Vegas.