Seamless CD burning in Wavelabs Ess.

[String7th]

I just finished a project of 11 songs and have the idea was that most of the songs, on a cd player, would cross-fade seamlessly while the track numbers change. I did this in Wavelab Essential. I created a CD Montage and set where the track#'s change.

For some reason a Flying Spaghetti Monster decided to F with me and decide that Wavelabs would not recognize the disk drive. I read the manual, made sure the software knows I got one and tried everything with this software. I even rendered down 1 long, mastered audio file.

Anyone know what software will do this? I got the entire album on 1 audio file, I just want to set markers where the track #'s will change over. Am I missing something on Wavelabs?


The FSM is a miserable cuss

[richiebee]

I don't know anything about Wavelab because I'm a Sound Forge guy, but I do know that you can do crossfades in Sony's CD Architect and also set markers where you want tracks to start. The fades are "hardwired" though, so if you say you have a cross fade between track one and track two, and you start playback on track two, you'll still hear a cross fade. The tracks are not totally independent. But playback throughout your CD would be seamless with no two second gap, and the fades are customizable.

Rich

[String7th]

Yeah, that's what I expected. I want to hear the crossfades. The album is supposed to be a concept album like Dream Theater's albums.

I think I found a driver update that might fix the problem but I gotta wait till this afternoon to give it a try.

You know, this whole "day-job" thing is really getting in the way of things I need to do.

[Electriclight]

Originally Posted by String7th

Wavelabs would not recognize the disk drive. I read the manual, made sure the software knows I got one and tried everything with this software.....Am I missing something on Wavelabs?

I had the same problem in Wavelab.
I had to follow this procedure from Steinberg (including the frog thing) to a "T", but it worked:

Audio-CD import: DVD/CD devices are not shown (PC Windows) :: Knowledge Base :: Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH