Sony CD ARCHITECT5 CD Editing/Mastering Software

Produce professional audio CDs to Red Book specification with CD Architect™ 5 software. Perform full PQ code editing trim events from full-length media and add as new tracks!

CD Architect software provides the most precise audio CD mastering and burning tools available. Arrange your CD Architect project using simple drag-and-drop operations. Produce complex crossfades and DJ-style megamixes. Generate multiple takes of a song to use in your project before burning. Create live-style CDs with audio in the time between tracks, apply volume envelopes and event ASR envelopes – even create hidden tracks. CD Architect software supports a long list of drives, including many FireWire and USB devices.

FEATURES:
General Editing
• CD Text support
• Support for up to 32-bit, 192kHz source audio
• High-quality resampling and dithering with noiseshaping
• Single or multi-file playlisting
• Volume and ASR envelopes for any event
• Multiple levels of undo/redo
• Override validation errors option
• Mono-to-stereo conversion on the fly
• CD transport controls
• Direct file open into Sound Forge® software
• Track creation from Sound Forge regions
• Trimmer window
• Media Explorer
• Ripple editing
• CD Image file rendering
• Automatic crossfades
• Greater than 1:1 time zoom
• Reading and extraction of PQ data along with audio tracks
• Complete control over tracks, marker placements, and indices
• Preview multiple tracks or ranges of audio before extraction from a supported CD device
• Stereo master volume fader and adjustable envelope controls for any region.
• Media Pool
• Multiple file format support without conversion
• Autosave crash recovery
• Undo/redo history list
• Supports MP3, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Windows Media® Audio, and more

Mastering
• Over 20 real-time DirectX® plug-ins
• Event and master bus effects model
• Audio layering to create complex crossfades
• Event Normalization
• Real time pitch shift/time stretch
• Slip trimming
• Audio phase invert
• Audio scrubbing
• Unlimited volume envelope points

CD Design
• Full PQ code editing support, including track and index positions and pause times
• Absolute times for replication
• Print cue sheets and format CD liner notes
• Up to 99 tracks
• Up to 99 subindices per track
• Smart track reordering
• Automatic pause time indication
• Relative times for liner notes
• Timeline event locking
• Adjustable pause times
• Audio CD player un-mute fade emulation

CD Writing
• Burns disc-at-once premaster CDs for professional replication
• USB, FireWire, SCSI and IDE/ATAPI CD-R and CD-RW drive support
• Overburn support of 80 minute and other size CD-Rs
• Buffer underrun protection
• Test burn mode
• PQ list verification for Red Book compatibility prior to burn
• Burn speed selection
• Copy-inhibit flags
• Pre-emphasis flags
• Audio clipping detection
• International Standard Recording Codes (ISRC)
• Universal Product Codes (UPC)
• Media Catalog Numbers (MCN)

System Requirements
• Microsoft® Windows® 2000, XP Home, or XP Professional
• 500 MHz processor
• 40 MB hard-disk space for program installation
• 128 MB RAM
• Windows-compatible sound card
• CD-ROM drive
• Supported CD-Recordable drive (for CD burning only)
• Microsoft DirectX® 8 or later (included on CD-ROM)
• Internet Explorer 5.1 or later (included on CD-ROM)