setting up for cd in soundforge

[Tuckermonster]

Ok I have finished mixes , opened into soundforge now what i want to do is crossfade the songs into each other,but I want to put in (theoretic) breaks, for differant tracks on the cd.ie.. track 1 track 2 etc..if anyone can tell me how to do this ,thanks!!! Tucker

[TimOBrien]

SoundForge is for editing stereo sound files. What you want to do requires a sequencer where you can work on multiple sound tracks together.

If you don't have one, here are some good inexpensive choices that will work:

The December issue of Computer Music magazine is giving away emagic's LogicAudio Fun (4audio tracks). Lots of other stuff on this CD too that make it a must-have.

QuartzStudioFree (www.digitalsoundplanet.com) a free 4-tracker.

ProToolsFree (www.digidesign.com) is free but some people have had trouble with it working on their hardware except the Macs.

And if you don't mind spending $40, I can also recomend N-Track Studio (www.n-track.com) which has features worth 10 times it's price. Free demo and manual on their website.

For other alternatives, try www.hitsquad.com

[SPINSTERWUN]

Tuckermonster, I think you are looking for CD Architect.
You should already have it, depending on whih version of Sound Forge you have.

If you have Sound Forge 4.0 or 4.5 you have it.

I know Sonic Foundry discontinued it with Sound Forge 5.0.

Check http://www.hitsquad.com/smm

It might be at that site.

peace...

spin

[SPINSTERWUN]

Ok Tuckermonster, I just read Queue's post http://homerecording.com/bbs/showthr...threadid=37027 , and it says that Acid 3.0 will have CD Architect.

So maybe you should go to the Sonic Foundry site to see if you can still use it in Sound Forge. http://www.sonicfoundry.com

[SPINSTERWUN]

My fault Vegas Video 3.0

[williamconifer]

I have not worked with Vegas but here is a thought. This approach is similar to what I do to achieve this in Acid3pro.

At this point you have a bunch of Wav's, each of which is a song. Create a new Vegas file. Open each Wav (song) in Vegas and then shift the wave (song) along the timeline to where you want them to cross fade. Then apply volume envelopes to create the crossfades. Now highlight "song a" in the time line (basically creating a looped area) and go to file menu|render as and make sure you check render looped area only. Assign the proper file name for "song a" and then presto you have a saved wave file ready for crossfading. Do this for all of your songs. You should now have newly render songs, each song should have a fade in/out at the begining and end. Tempo of the songs as it relates to the tempo of the vegas file you are using to crossfade may be a problem but experament.

Now open up EzCD creator or the like and "place" all the newly created wav's in the "to burn" window payne. Make sure there is no time pause set between the tracks and NO CROSSFADE (you already cross faded exactly the way you wanted in Vegas).

Now I believe you should not get any sould quality loss with this process but I could be wrong.

In Acid I create the "idea" track first. I deceide which order I want the ideas in and then work out complex cross fades using rythms and themes. At this point each idea is only 2 mins. long. I do this until my CPU (celeron 333) max's out then I "re-pot" (think gardening) each "idea" into a new Acid using the "render as looped area only". Each file has a set crossfaded begining and end. I then "flush out" the rest of each individule idea/song and usually add more time/conent in the middle of each song. I then apply "spit and polish" and then render each song and then burn in EZCD creator. This approach is brand new to me but it works amazing well for me.

Take care