Feature Request! Please! It's a nobrainer....

ShortyEmcee wrote on 11/24/2008, 9:35 AM
Ok, so let's all get on the ball here and try to get this implemented!

I've requested numerous times on the home page and never gotten so much as a response.

When I'm arranging, leveling, etc, an entire album for the 'final' mix or 'master', I want to be able to 'BOUNCE' the individual tracks new files.

This way, after any level, normalize, eq, comp, length edits, fades, chops, etc, I can just bounce it to a new file in the clients folder.

This is important because all individual songs will be different (Obviously) and I want a rendered file of the changes. Or I intend to chop a verse out of a performance track, or whatever, now I want it saved......

The only way this is possible right now is to burn the CD and then IMPORT it. What a pain...... in the.......... yeahsssss.

anyway......

Additionally, it would be benefitial to have the option of pre or post master.

i.e.

Right click a single track in the timeline, or select any number of tracks, right click, choose bounce/render/export/whatevertheywannacallit, and you get a window to choose location to save (standard tree, with option to create new folder), option for pre or post master, name the file (Or each file as it gets to them, like on a multiple track rip), and wham, you've got them bounced to files with any changes that were made in CDA

PLEASE! This would save me, us, sooooo much time.

Also, what's with the funky output algorithms? While using some plugins, waves, sonitus, etc, I notice that there are different anomolies occuring which these plugs do not create say in Pro Tools or Sonar. I've measured the impulse responses, in and out levels, etc, and such on reverbs like IRx and whatever, off of their presets, and they are not dentical to what they are in other softwares.

At any rate. Great software, just a little quirky, but I need this new feature to save time!

Comments

Geoff_Wood wrote on 11/24/2008, 12:08 PM
Yep, and CDA is WORTH THE EFFORT Mr SONY !

In-place file rendering would help, as would plugin-chain-switching-off. But if you are wanting to pre-render each track, why not simply do them separately in SF ?

DDP image saving (plus ISO) is also sorely needed to be a serious redbook CD authoring package.

geoff
ShortyEmcee wrote on 11/25/2008, 7:05 AM
I don't own SoundForge, nor do I need it. I work in Pro Tools.

(To be clear I thin PT sux, but it is the professional standard, and I've made more money with my PT rigs than with any other system, both studio and live. Especially having commercial space downtown minneapolis, I really HAVE TO be on PT.)

I bought CD Arch 5.2 shortly after it's release. I had been using a copy of 5 prior to that which I found out was bogus so I bought it straight from Sony :)....

Anyway, yes, there is the argument that this all could be done in Pro Tools, or whatever, (cept for the track layout) but the workflow is better for this kind of work in CDA, and I still have access to all my high end plugins...... Plus, it would still have to come in there anyway, so why not just do it there to begin with?

I love the arranging. I almost always run some tracks together, just about every album. Very useful.

I have 2 systems I am running together and seperately. Pro Tools LE, 18 channels. And Pro Tools Mix Cube 32 Channels both used in the studio and used remotely for live recordings, in 2 flight racks. Soon it will be 3 systems (Adding a Pro Tools HD3 rig come tax time! for 32-48 channels), and at that time I will likely move the PC, LE system to a seperate room just for authoring ........

Stupid question? Is CDA Mac compatible? I didn't think so.... product page won't load, I've never noticed, never tried installing on my Macs.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b165/shortyemcee/SmallWebConsoleTable2.jpg

The old control room, currently under construction.... studio will be so much nicer.... maybe then I'll make some decent money! heh heh
: )
ShortyEmcee wrote on 12/5/2008, 10:41 AM
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Geoff_Wood wrote on 12/5/2008, 2:44 PM
You can run CDA on a Mac running Windows. Ivaguely recall somebody once saying that they managed under a Win-emulator under some MacOS, but not sure.

Try Vegas and Acid - you may be so impressed you will save the money Digi want to extort out of you and restrict you with.

Unless, of course, you business suffers from others already locked into the PT hegemony....

geoff
ShortyEmcee wrote on 12/12/2008, 11:59 AM
PT is a must. I am in competition with all the major commercial studios around MPLS/ST PAUL and there is no way I'd be able to compete if I wasn't on the professional standard.

:(

Oh wells. Maybe I'll look into bootcamp and see if I can run Windows on the Mac. :)
Geoff_Wood wrote on 12/15/2008, 1:22 PM
Yes, it's sad, especially as they achieved that status through by both being early, and cynical market manipulatioon. But undenialable that they are a 'standard', like a Shure SM58 is.

If Sony where clever, they'd enable import and export of PT projects directly to/from Vegas and Acid.

geoff