CDA5 mention in Sound On Souond mastering article

Geoff_Wood wrote on 7/29/2003, 3:53 AM
... by Martin Walker. Comes out quite well in direct comparison to Wavelab's CD authoring function (CDA cheaper), although it's not a shootout as such.

However Martin makes an big error. He specifically states than event plugins are not loading the CPU when different events are playing/rendering . This is not correct, as we all know, and is the MAJOR burning (pun) issue with CDA5 for me. It makes CDA5 almost useless for mastering with many popular mastering plugins, being unable to real-time audition.

Could somebody at SF please state catagorically if this issue is likely to be addressed ? I'm sure Sony must be interested in maintaining a preminent Windows Redbook CD authoring software, considering they were a major part of inventing redbook ...

The only othe (small) issues I have with CDA5 are:
1 - Progress meter updating is irregular.
2 - Any action to do with my CD-RW (LiteON) seems to invoke a 10-second-or-so pause while communicating with the drive.

Fingers crossed.

geoff

Comments

stusy wrote on 7/31/2003, 1:27 PM
Please...I must beg of you as well...we need updates in anything all the time...I cannot be wrong on this, nor can anyone, even in the employ of SOFO dissuade me from this or want anything different, unless they are not "users" themselves, ah, there lies the crux of the issue and why we are not getting thru: too many layoffs of vets so that all we're left with is a fledgling fleet of hard-working, severly stressed drones trying to grok with products with which they have no knowledge or can afford or have time to experiment with, and, are not being paid enuf to make a diff in the higher echelons who could care less but for the bottom line...how bout a CDA 6 upgrade for $20 then...? and a VV3.5, SF6f, etc., etc...
PaulO wrote on 8/10/2003, 4:29 AM
>I'm sure Sony must be interested in maintaining a prominent
>Windows Redbook CD authoring software

A cynic writes...you might think so, but: Sony sells and encourages the use of some VERY expensive kit for CD mastering. If you went to Sony and said, "sell me what I need to master audio CDs" you are unlikely to end up with a bill for less than $20k. The high-end of CD mastering certainly does not encourage the approach of sending a CD-R to the duplicating plant for cloning.

In short, it's just possible that CD Architect (and its ilk) are actually a thorn in their side. But I am, as I said, a cynic.