The exact instructions as to how to do all of this are in the Audacity help file, but it’s simple enough once you get the hang of it.ĭo you have a favourite trick or piece of software you always use when turning digital DJ mixes into CDs? Got any more advice to add for Nonso? Please feel free to do so in the comments. In short, though, Audacity lets you label a great long waveform, similar to the one in your DJ software, with little flags like cue markers that mark where you want track breaks, titles and so on. There are a couple of hoops to jump through to make sure you have gapless audio, though, which is obviously necessary for DJ mixes. Regarding adding track markers, you can do this (as well as label the track names) using a great free program called Audacity to prepare your audio. Then, you’ll get a universally playable audio disc, and as long as your original mix was 74 minutes or shorter (or 80, depending on your CDs and burner) it will fit onto the CD just fine. For a start, you cant make SACD discs at all. As for burning your own full-quality audio surround discs, the options are very limited. But, as has been said, in order to burn to a CD you must select 16 bit, 44.1 when exporting your tracks. Surcodes CD-DTS (shown above) and DVD-DTS software packages will convert six mono audio files (all channels of the 5.1 format) to DTS-encoded WAVs on either CD or DVD, and cost 99 and 499 respectively. You might want to work through this as well. There is a tutorial on this topic included on your Sonar installation DVD. Instead, you want to do just that – select “audio CD” rather than “data CD” on your burning software. I am running Sonar PE 6.1 and have no difficulty burning. If it doesnt and tries to convert, create a CDRWin-type CUE sheet and burn directly with Imgburn. The burning app ought to see the WAV and accept it as input without converting. But what you end up with here are data CDs that can then only be read by other computer CD drives (or if you’ve burned MP3s or other digital audio files, sometimes by specialist CD players). This is what you have been doing, but it’s not the right way to burn an audio CD. Take your DTS-WAV files and burn them onto an AudioCD. It is possible to burn a file (MP3, WAV, whatever) onto a CD as a digital computer file, in the same way you can burn pictures, or programs onto disc.
You’re confusing data CDs with audio CDs. To utilize WaveLab’s surround and multichannel capabilities, you will need an audio card with multiple inputs and outputs. To utilize WaveLab’s DVD-A burning capabilities, you will need a DVD recorder. Your CD recorder must support the disc-at-once write mode. Also what is the commonest music file format to have one’s mixtape in?” Digital DJ Tips says:įirstly, file format. To utilize WaveLab’s CD burning capabilities, you will need a CD recorder. I’d like to know how I can break it into individual tracks. I had to convert the file to MP3, because it was too big to fit onto a CD otherwise. It is currently a continuous mix without tracks, though. Audacity is great for preparing DJ mixes for burning to CD, and it’s also free.ĭigital DJ Tips reader Nonso writes: “I have done a mixtape using Serato SL4, which I’d like to burn onto a CD.