CD Architect^TM 5.0

Professional Red Book Audio CD Mastering

Produce professional audio CDs to Red Book specification with Sonic Foundry's new CD Architect - 5.0. This popular application is back and more powerful than ever as a new stand-alone version! Perform full PQ code editing, trim events from full-length media and add as new tracks, import regions from Sound Forge as tracks, master audio by applying over 20 real-time DirectX® effects to events and the master output, and perform disc-at-once CD burning.

CD Architect 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 supports a long list of drives, including many FireWire and USB devices.

Why CD Architect?

Powerful CD Creation Tools

CD Architect provides all the tools you need to produce professional CDs from beginning to end. Perform full PQ code editing, apply effects, create customized crossfades, and generate disc-at-once premasters suitable for professional replication.

Over 20 Real-Time DirectX® Effects

CD Architect gives you the flexibility you need to professionally master your final product. Master your CD projects using over 20 real-time DirectX® effects including EQ, compression, reverb, and noise gate. Apply effects to individual tracks, sections of a track, or the master bus.

Powerful Editing Features

Zoom to sample level and perform precise, real-time edits, fades and crossfades. Move, cut, copy, paste, and split events. Invert audio phase, normalize tracks, and perform audio scrubbing - even apply real-time pitch changes and time stretching

CD Ripping Tools

Create best-of CDs in minutes. Preview and rip tracks, add them to your project, and burn to CD. Tracks are extracted with full PQ information including track start points, timing information, and more.

Professional Mixing Tools

Create professional transitions between songs or layer audio to produce complex crossfades and DJ-style megamixes. Create "live" CDs with audio in between tracks, apply volume and ASR envelopes to events and even create hidden tracks!

Powerful CD Design Features

Arrange audio tracks to get the order you want using simple drag-and-drop operations. Create multiple takes of a song to use in your project before burning. Preview and switch between various takes and choose the one that fits best in your project.

Professional CD Burning Features

CD Architect includes support for a wide variety of CD burners, including FireWire, USB, IDE, and SCSI devices. Perform test burns before writing to CD. CD Architect also supports buffer underrun protection — preventing unusable discs.

Cue sheet printing

Share track list information with other applications or a CD replication house. You can copy track list information, save it to a text file, or print a hard copy directly from CD Architect.

Full PQ Code Editing

CD Architect lets you arrange tracks with speed and precision. Perform full PQ code editing including track and index positions, ISRC codes, and pause times.

Protected Work Environment

Work with confidence - CD Architect automatically creates and saves a backup copy of your project every five minutes. Plus, use the undo/redo history to restore previous edits with ease. View past edits - even undo or redo whole groups at a time.

Multiple File Format Support

Use multiple file formats in your project - CD Architect performs the conversion for you. Convert your favorite MP3s to WAV on the fly, burn new audio CD's, and listen to them anywhere. CD Architect supports popular formats including MP3, AIF, Windows^TM Media, Ogg Vorbis, and more.

Fully Customizable Workspace

CD Architect lets you to customize your environment to fit the way you work. Dock or float windows, including the Playlist, Tracklist, Trimmer, Media Pool and Mixer anywhere on your workspace, or rearrange buttons on the toolbar to fit your style.

Ultimate Audio Fidelity

Use the highest quality audio in your CD projects, up to 32-bit, 192kHz source audio - no conversion is necessary. Convert your tracks to Red Book audio with high-quality resampling and dithering with noise shaping.

What you can do with CD Architect?

• Generate Red Book compliant disc-at-once (DAO) premasters suitable for professional replication.
• Burn CDs using USB, FireWire, SCSI and IDE/ATAPI CD recorders.
• Test burn before writing to CD,
• Perform full PQ code editing including media UPC/MCN, and per-track ISRC.
• Extract audio tracks with PQ information from CDs.
• Perform mastering by applying over 20 real-time DirectX® effects to individual events, sections of events, or the master bus.
• Use high-resolution source audio with high-quality conversion to Red Book audio.
• Import regions and markers from Sound Forge as CD tracks and indicies.
• Apply real-time pitch changes and time stretching.
• Create multiple takes of a song to use in your project before burning.
• Quickly adjust track volume levels, add a fade-in/fade-out, crossfade, and define custom volume and event ASR envelopes for each track.
• Layer audio to produce complex crossfades and DJ-style megamixes.
• Create live-style CDs with audio in the time between tracks.
• Perform precise, non-destructive edits and zoom to the sample level and create extremely accurate edits and fades.
• Use the Trimmer window to select portions of media that can be placed as new tracks.
• Convert your favorite MP3s to WAV on the fly, burn your new audio CDs, and listen to them anywhere.
• Preview tracks in the Media Pool before adding them to your mix.
• Use high-resolution source audio with high-quality conversion to Red Book audio.
• Import multiple file formats into your project without any conversion.
• Arrange your CD Architect project using simple drag-and-drop operations.
• Instantly normalize events to the peak level.
• Copy track list information to the clipboard, save it to a text file, or print a hard copy directly from the CD Architect interface.
• Create hidden tracks by adding audio before the first track or after the last track.
• Use the undo/redo history to restore your project to any previous state.
• Use up to 99 tracks and 99 subindices per track.
• Add International Standard Recording (ISRC), Universal Product Codes (UPC) or Media Catalog Numbers (MCN).

Features

* items marked with an asterix are new or improved in version 5.0

General Editing

• 32-bit, 192kHz source audio support*
• High-quality resampling and dithering with noiseshaping*
• Single or multi-file playlisting
• Volume and ASR envelopes for any event
• Trimmer window*
• Multiple levels of undo/redo
• Undo/redo history list*
• Override validation errors option
• Mono-to-stereo conversion on the fly
• CD transport controls
• Direct file open into Sound Forge®
• Track creation from Sound Forge regions
• CD Image file rendering
• Automatic crossfades
• 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
• Multiple file format support*
• Media file previewing*
• Tabbed/docking windows*
• Greater than 1:1 zoom*
• Ripple editing*
• Dual monitor support*
• Toolbar customization*
• Media Explorer window*
• Autosave crash recovery*
• MP3, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Windows Media® Audio import*

Mastering

• Over 20 real-time DirectX® effects*
• Event/track and master bus effects model*
• Audio phase invert*
• Event normalize*
• Audio layering with complex crossfades*
• Real-time pitch change/time stretch*
• Slip trimming*
• Unlimited volume envelope points*
• Audio scrubbing*

CD Design & Writing

• Full PQ code editing support, including track and index positions and pause times
• Absolute times for replication
• Relative times for liner notes
• Print cue sheets and format CD liner notes
• Up to 99 tracks
• Up to 99 subindices per track
• Timeline event locking
• Adjustable pause times
• Audio CD player un-mute fade emulation
• Buffer underrun protection*
• Smart track reordering*
• Multiple takes for events*
• Cue sheet printing*
• Audio clipping detection*
• Automatic pause time indication*
• Expanded drive support including USB and FireWire devices*
• 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
• Test burn mode
• PQ list verification for Red Book compatibility prior to burn
• Burn speed selection
• Copy-inhibit flags
• Pre-emphasis flags
• International Standard Recording Codes (ISRC)
• Universal Product Codes (UPC)
• Media Catalog Numbers (MCN)

System Requirements

Supported File Formats

Extension	Description	Import	Export
WAV	WAV (Microsoft) \ WAV Image
CDA	CD Audio
AIF, AIFF	Audio Interchange Format
CDP	CD Architect 4 project
CDP	CD Architect 5 project
PCA	Sonic Foundry Perfect Clarity Audio
MP3	MPEG 1 layer 3
W64	Sonic Foundry Wave 64
WMA	Microsoft Windows Media Audio
SFA	Sonic Foundry Audio
OGG	Ogg Vorbis
VOX	Dialogic VOX ADPCM
IVC	InterVoice
AU / SND	NeXT/Sun File
QT / MOV	Quicktime Audio
DIG / SD	Sound Designer 1

Comparison Table

CD Architect 4.0 Versus 5.0

Feature	4.0	5.0
USB and FireWire drive support
Over 20 real-time DirectX® effects
Smart track reordering
Greater than 1:1 time zoom
32-bit/192kHz audio support
High-quality resampling and dithering
Trimmer window
Undo/Redo History
Buffer underrun protection*
Cue sheet printing
Dual monitor support
Real-time pitch change/timestretch
Audio scrubbing
Tabbed/docking windows
Event normalize
Auto-pause time indication
Explorer and Media Pool
Autosave crash recovery
DAO Red Book Audio CD Burning
Full PQ code editing
CD audio extraction
Nondestructive editing
Test burn mode
Automatic track crossfades
Volume envelope points
Track creation from Sound Forge regions	32	unlimited
CD player seek emulation
Copy inhibit and pre-emphais flags
Universal Product Codes (UPC)
Media Catalog Numbers (MCN)
ISRC codes
Hidden track creation
CD transport controls
Absolute times for replication
Adjustable pause times
CD image burning