User manual APPLE WAVEBURNER PRO 1.0 USING WITH LOGIC PRO

[. . . ] 1 Using WaveBurner Pro Using WaveBurner Pro, you can master and burn professional-quality audio CDs that are compliant with the Red Book standard. You can also create premasters for CD production. Table of Contents "What Is WaveBurner Pro?" on page 2 "Creating a CD With WaveBurner Pro" on page 2 "Quick Start" on page 3 "The WaveBurner Pro Interface" on page 4 "Getting Started With WaveBurner Pro" on page 12 "Working With Regions" on page 17 "Working With Tracks" on page 22 "Working With Markers" on page 24 "Working With Effects" on page 26 "Burning a Project to a CD" on page 39 "WaveBurner Pro Keyboard Shortcuts" on page 42 1 What Is WaveBurner Pro? WaveBurner Pro is an application that lets you assemble, master, and burn audio CDs using a SuperDrive or CD burner supported by Mac OS X. Audio CDs created with WaveBurner Pro can be played back on any audio CD player, and can be used as premasters to produce CDs in quantity. WaveBurner Pro supports all Red Book options for CD audio data storage. [. . . ] To set the Copy Prohibit Bit: In the General Pane of the CD Track Info window, choose "Protected original" or "Protected copy" from the SCMS pop-up menu. m m m m 23 Setting Track Pre-Emphasis The use of pre-emphasis dates from the early days of digital sound reproduction, when 14-bit A/D converters without oversampling were frequently used. The high frequencies of digital recordings were boosted or "emphasized" during conversion (similar to the RIAA EQ process for vinyl records), then were attenuated (de-emphasis) after D/A conversion. This process tended to mask the inaccuracies of the conversion. With today's advanced digital recording technology, it is recommended that you leave pre-emphasis turned off, because modern converters are capable of delivering linear conversion that produces substantially fewer errors than de-emphasis filters. WaveBurner Pro supports pre-emphasis only so that old digital recordings that were processed using pre-emphasis can be marked as such. Pre-emphasis is a display-only option, and will not change the way in which the audio is processed when you burn a CD. To turn on pre-emphasis: In the General Pane of the CD Track Info window, turn on Pre-Emphasis. m Bouncing Tracks You can bounce a track. As with bouncing a region, bouncing a track has two benefits: it lets you save an archive of the track, and it can help conserve processing power when you burn a CD. To bounce a track: 1 In the Track list, select the track. 3 In the Save dialog, choose a location to save the track, then click OK. Working With Markers Markers are part of the Red Book standard for the CD format. You use markers to indicate a specific point in time on the CD. There are several types of markers, including track start, pause start, and index markers. Types of Markers WaveBurner Pro supports the following types of markers: · Track start markers: Indicate the start of a track, when someone playing the finished CD uses the forward, back, or track number controls on their CD player. · Pause start markers: Indicate the start of a short period of silence before the next track starts. · Index markers: Indicate the position of index points, which are additional points in time within a track. Not all CD players can recognize and locate index points. 24 Inserting and Deleting Markers When you add an audio file to a project, a track start marker is inserted at the beginning of the region created from the audio file, and a pause start marker is inserted at the end of the preceding region (including the first region). You can use the default placement of the markers, or move them to adjust the pause length. You can insert track start markers manually to define tracks separately from the beginning and end of regions in the project. You insert a track start marker and a pause start marker together, separated by a short period of silence called the pause length. The default pause length is defined in the General Preferences pane. For information about setting the default pause length, see "General Preferences" on page 15. To insert track start and pause start markers: 1 Click the Track Start Marker button (the purple marker button to the left of the Transport controls). 2 Click either marker bar at the point in time you want to insert the track start marker. [. . . ] The overall length of the CD is increased by the number of CDDA frames required to maintain the initial period of silence. To set offsets: 1 Choose Disc > Disc Options, then click the General tab. 2 Type the offsets you want to set in the First Start Point, Other Start Points, End Points, and Indexes fields. (in CDDA frames) 3 When you are finished, click OK. Saving Mastering Notes You can save several types of mastering information about your project in WaveBurner Pro, in case you need to refer to it later. [. . . ]