CD Burner copies individual song tracks as songs

[HAPLESSGUY]

I'm trying to burn a two track guitar piece on my CD burner using CeQuadrat Just Burn software. The software recognizes my two individual tracks as separate files instead of one file. I'm using Home Studio 9. How do I get the software to recognize the individual tracks as part of one tune, or file? Anyone have any ideas?

[dachay2tnr]

Have you exported it as a stereo wave file? I'm not familiar with Home Studio, but generally recording software stores each seperate track as an individual wave file. CD burner software recognizes each wave file as a separate song. You need to create a single stereo wave file from the two individual tracks.

In Cakewalk Pro Audio you can do this by exporting the tracks to a stero wave file. I'm not sure how to accomplish this in Home Studio, but I would imagine there's a similar process.

Once you have the single file, you should be able to burn it to your CD with no problems.

[HAPLESSGUY]

Dachay:

I recorded my tracks in stereo and exported them to the burner software as wave file. I accomplished what I wanted to do by mixing down the audio to a single track. It sounded bad, however, and I had to go back and edit the individual tracks before mixing down again. I then edited the mixdown track. This worked, but I can't imagine mixing down more than two tracks to one. Thanks for responding. I will have to keep working at it I guess.

[dachay2tnr]

I might suggest recording the individual tracks in mono rather than stereo.

I've mixed down as many as 10 or so mono tracks with no problems (using Pro Audio). Sounds like something is not working correctly for you.

When you do your mixdown, check the settings in your master control. Maybe you have the master volume set too high and you're causing clipping. (Again, I'm not familiar with the program you're using).

If you can playback the two original tracks within Home Studio and they sound OK, then you should be able to mix them down and have them sound OK. Familiarize yourself with the program, there are a lot of controls that effect things.

Good luck.